Ashbourne

Ashbourne is a market metropolis within the Derbyshire Dales, England. It has a population of 7,112. It incorporates many historic buildings and lots of independent shops and is famous for its historical annual Shrovetide football fit. Due to its proximity to the southern fringe of the Peak District and being the nearest town to the popular region of Dovedale, the city is referred to as each the 'Gateway to Dovedale' and the 'Gateway to the Peak District'.

Ashbourne is a market city and changed into granted a marketplace charter in 1257. In medieval instances Ashbourne was a frequent rest stop for pilgrims walking 'St Non's Way' to the shrine at Dunstable in Bedfordshire. The forces of Charles Edward Stuart surpassed via Ashbourne at some stage in the Jacobite growing of 1745. From 1910, Nestle had a creamery within the metropolis, which for a period became reduced in size to supply Carnation condensed milk.

The manufacturing facility had its own private sidings linked to the railway station goods yard, which allowed milk trains to get entry to the facility, and distribute product as some distance south as London. After milk trains ceased in 1965, the railway song turned into lifted and the railway station absolutely closed. The factory closed in 2003, and due to the fact demolition in 2006, has been redeveloped as housing and a mild business property, even though the old loading ramp from road degree as much as the factory ground is still in situ.