» For other places called Ashington, see Ashington (disambiguation) Ashington is a town in the Wansbeck district of Northumberland, England. Ashington has a population of around 27,000 people and it's a centre of the coal mining industry. Ashington 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. As in many other parts of Britain, "deep pit" c… (More on Ashington)