Places
- United Kingdom
- Ashdown, a historical name for an unspecified region of the Berkshire Downs
- Battle of Ashdown, 871 A.D.
- Ashdown Forest in East Sussex
- Ashdown Technology College, Poole, Dorset
- United States
- Ashdown, Arkansas
- Ashdown House (disambiguation), several in the UK and the U.S.
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