Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Ashington is a town in Northumberland, England, with a population of around 28,000 people. The town was built up from being a small hamlet in the 1840s, as the Duke of Portland constructed housing to encourage workers escaping the potato famine to come and work at the local collieries he was founding. Like much of Britain, coal is no longer mined in the area. Jackie Milburn, Bobby Charlton and Jackie Charlton were all born in Ashington. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.