Ashcroft Manor Ranch, also known as Ashcroft Ranch, is a historic ranch in the

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, founded by

Clement Francis Cornwall Clement Francis Cornwall (June 18, 1836 – February 15, 1910) was a Canadian parliamentarian and the third Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. Cornwall was born at Ashcroft House, in Newington Bagpath, near Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucest ...

(later

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) and his brother, Henry Cornwall.Plaque about Ashcroft Manor
/ref> Ashcroft Manor's main house and buildings are an historic site adjacent to the

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and west of the

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main line, which named its

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Ashcroft Station at the current site of the village of

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. The manor is south of Cache Creek on BC Highway 1 at the access road junction to the village of Ashcroft below on the

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In the heyday of the Cornwall brothers, Ashcroft Manor was one of the centres of British-style country life in the

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, and was famous for its fox-hunting parties and line of hounds, as well as race horses, and drew the early province's high society to these and other entertainments. Overlooking Ashcroft Manor to the north is the Cache Creek Waste Disposal Facility. The name

Cornwall Hills The Cornwall Hills are a range of mountainous hills in the Thompson Country of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. They are located west and southwest of the communities of Cache Creek and Ashcroft and form the divide between the basin of t ...

, referring to the southern part of the low hill-range between the Thompson and the upper basin of Hat Creek, is derived from that of the informal name of the ranch, the Cornwall Ranch. The Cornwall name is shared by Cornwall Creek, a tributary entering the Thompson River on the lower side of the ranch holdings.

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The Ashcroft Manor
Gold Country GeoTourism Program {{coord, 50.718715, N, 121.328131, W, display=title Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia Ranches in British Columbia Populated places in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District Thompson Country

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