Region: England · United Kingdom

Where to stay in Ashbourne

Ashbourne
Photo: Nikki Mahadevan — CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ashbourne is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 9,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Ashbourne, with about 56 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.

Places to stay in this guide
1
Nearest airport
EMA33 km · East Midlands Airport
Currency
GBPpound sterling
Time zone
Europe/London
Plugs
G · 230 V
Emergency
112
Language
Cornish, English, Irish

About

About Ashbourne

Ashbourne is a market town in the Derbyshire Dales district in Derbyshire, England, 14 miles (23 km) north-west of Derby. Its population was 8,967 in the 2021 census.

Ashbourne has a population of about 9,000. The town was given a charter to hold markets in 1257. Bottled Ashbourne water was sold in the late twentieth century, but discontinued in 2006.

Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.

Things to do

What to see and do in Ashbourne

See

  • Pegge's almshouses
  • Owfield Almshouses
  • The Mansion House
  • The Elizabethan Grammar School
  • Dovedale
  • St Oswald's Church

Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.

Where to stay

The best-rated places to stay in Ashbourne

Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.

#Place to stayTypeRoomsGuest score
1Travelodge Ashbourne
Carnation Way, Ashbourne, DE6 1AY, UK
hotel
hotel564.5/5
901 reviews
2 km4 km

Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.

Where to stay

Where the places to stay in Ashbourne are

37 places to stay in this guide with known coordinates, grouped by straight-line distance from the city centre (the point Wikidata gives for Ashbourne), nearest first. Distance on foot or by road is longer.

1–3 km from the centre

6 places

3–10 km from the centre

5 places

10 km or more from the centre

26 places

And 6 more, further out.

Where to stay

More hotels in Ashbourne

36 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.

HotelTypeOpenedFrom centreWebsite
Callow Hallcountry house hotel2.2 km
Hartington Hallcountry house hotel14.9 km
The Green Man And Black's Head Hotel, Attached Inn Sign Bridging Roadhotel1.1 kmthegreenman.co.uk
Black Swan Inn And Adjoining Outbuilding To Eastinn9.9 km
Blacks Head Inninn12.0 km
Bulls Headhotel17.7 kmthebullsheadyoulgrave.co.uk
Charles Cotton Hotelhotel15.1 km
Devonshire Arms Inninn15.1 km
Holly Bush Inninn12.2 km
Lime Kiln Inninn12.3 km
Miner's Arms Inninn9.1 kmtheminerscarsington.co.uk
Okeover Arms Public Househotel2.9 km
Old Bowling Green Inninn14.8 km
Queens Arms Hotelhotel10.8 km
Red Lion Hotelhotel12.1 km
Royal Oak Inninn12.2 km
Station Hotelhotel1.3 km
The Barley Mow Inninn8.3 km
The Bull's Head Public Houseinn20.3 km
The Gate Inninn8.5 km
The George Inninn10.7 km
The Manifold Inninn15.2 km
The Old Shoulder Of Mutton Inninn14.7 km
The Red Lion at Knivetoninn3.9 km
The Talbot Inninn12.6 km
Ye Olde Crown Hotelhotel11.3 km
Yew Tree Inninn11.7 km
George Houseinn12.1 km
Newhaven House Hotelhotel13.7 km
The Bulls Head Inninn12.6 km
The Compleat Angler Inninn12.1 km
The Laurels B&Bhotel13.5 km
The Lilacshotel2.7 km
The White Hart Inninn12.5 km
Tiger Inninn12.0 km
Wellington Inninn16.3 km

All 37 hotels in Ashbourne, with their history and operators

When to go

The best time to visit Ashbourne

Ashbourne has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; December is the wettest, with about 127 mm of rain.

0°15°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec127 mm
Average highAverage lowRain per monthComfortable months

Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).

Ashbourne travel calendar 2027: every day with public and school holidays, sunrise and sunset and the typical high and low (also as JSON).

Public holidays in United Kingdom, 2026

Shops and offices may close on these dates.

1 Jan · New Year's Day3 Apr · Good Friday4 May · May Day25 May · Spring Bank Holiday25 Dec · Christmas Day26 Dec · Boxing Day28 Dec · Boxing Day (observed)

Getting there

Getting to Ashbourne: airports and arrival

The nearest airport with scheduled flights is East Midlands Airport (EMA), about 33 km from the city centre in a straight line; Manchester Airport (MAN, 53 km) and Birmingham Airport (BHX, 63 km) are also within reach.

Local knowledge

Eating, drinking and staying safe in Ashbourne

Eat

Most of the pubs in town provide food, but the following are the specialist food establishments.

Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.

Good to know

Accessibility, parking and families in Ashbourne

How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.

pets allowed
1

of 1 place

a workspace
1

of 1 place

Questions

Ashbourne: questions travellers ask

What are the best-rated hotels in Ashbourne?

By published guest score: Travelodge Ashbourne (4.5 / 5 · 901 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).

When is the best time to visit Ashbourne?

Ashbourne has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; December is the wettest, with about 127 mm of rain.

Which airport is closest to Ashbourne?

The nearest airport with scheduled flights is East Midlands Airport (EMA), about 33 km from the city centre in a straight line; Manchester Airport (MAN, 53 km) and Birmingham Airport (BHX, 63 km) are also within reach.

What currency is used in Ashbourne?

pound sterling (GBP).

Nearby

Destinations near Ashbourne

Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; public holidays from python-holidays (MIT); places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.