The poem is quoted by Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel, Jude the Obscure and also by Edward Ashburnham in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

Ashby is bordered by New Ipswich, New Hampshire and Mason, New Hampshire to the north, Townsend to the east, Lunenburg to the southeast, Fitchburg to the south, and Ashburnham to the west.

Ashburnham is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

The name is of British origin, possibly drawn from the Earl of Ashburnham, in Pembrey, or the Sussex community of Ashburnham.

* Ashburnham is the starting point for the Wapack Trail and Massachusetts Midstate Trail.

Fitchburg is bordered by Ashby to the north, Lunenburg to the east, Leominster to the south, Westminster to the west, and a small portion of Ashburnham to the northwest.

Gardner is bordered by Winchendon and Ashburnham to the north, Westminster to the east, Hubbardston to the south, and Templeton to the west, all in Massachusetts.

South Ashburnham is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in the town of Ashburnham in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

South Ashburnham is located at ( 42. 613856 ,-71. 931517 ).

Westminster is bordered by Ashburnham to the north, Gardner to the west, Hubbardston to the southwest, Princeton to the south, and Leominster and Fitchburg to the east.

New Ipswich is bordered by Rindge to the west, Sharon and Temple to the north, Greenville and Mason to the east, and Ashburnham, Massachusetts and Ashby, Massachusetts to the south.

The 4th earl bought a famous collection of Illuminated manuscripts, which was sold by the 5th earl, mostly to the British Library, although the Ashburnham Pentateuch is in Paris.

Slightly inland is the championship Ashburnham Golf Course and the village of Pembrey itself.

It is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends.

The novel opens with the famous line, “ This is the saddest story I have ever heard .” Dowell explains that for nine years he, his wife Florence and their friends Captain Edward Ashburnham ( the “ good soldier ” of the book ’ s title ) and his wife Leonora had an ostensibly normal friendship while Edward and Florence sought treatment for their heart ailments at a spa in Nauheim, Germany.

Ashburnham is a hopeless romantic who keeps falling in love with the women he meets ; he is at Nauheim for the treatment of a heart problem but it ’ s unclear whether the ailment is real.

Eventually Nancy is sent by Ashburnham to India to live with her father, but she goes mad en route when she learns of Edward ’ s death.

Dowell exhibits a strong homosocial bond towards Edward Ashburnham, which reflects the fact that the Englishman is in some ways a paragon for his friend.

Roger Ashburnham is credited with building the castle c. 1378-80.

The Ashburnham Golf Club championship course is the area's main sporting attraction, Ashburnham Road is one of the village's two main thoroughfares and the Ashburnham Hotel one of its hostelries.

The manuscript, by now detached, was burned in the Cotton library fire at Ashburnham House in 1731.

One was originally a complete copy of Ine's laws, part of British Library MS Cotton Otho B xi, but that manuscript was largely destroyed in 1731 by a fire at Ashburnham House in which only Chapters 66 to 76. 2 of Ine's laws escaped destruction.

Having gained access to the king, he set about using his influence with Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, and others, with a view to mediating between them and the captive king ; he was supported by John Ashburnham.

A second canal was cut by the Earl of Ashburnham in 1798 to serve his mines nearby and this also was fed by wagonways.

It was occupied by the 6th earl's niece, Lady Catherine Ashburnham ( 1890-1953 ), until her death in 1953, and subsequently the contents were sold in 1953 and the land in 1953-57.

Leonora Ashburnham: Edward ’ s wife by a marriage that was more or less arranged by their fathers.

In 1731, while the codex was at Ashburnham House with the rest of the collection, it was reduced by fire to a heap of charred and shrivelled leaves.

Under his administration the library was enriched with numerous gifts, legacies and acquisitions, notably by the purchase of a part of the Ashburnham manuscripts.

Delisle proved that the bulk of the manuscripts of French origin which Lord Ashburnham had bought in France, particularly those bought from the book-seller Jean-Baptiste Barrois, had been purloined by Count Libri, inspector-general of libraries under King Louis-Philippe, and he procured the repurchase of the manuscripts for the library, afterwards preparing a catalogue of them entitled Catalogue des manuscrits des fonds Libri et Barrois ( 1888 ), the preface of which gives the history of the whole transaction.

John Ashburnham around 1630, portrait by Daniel Mytens.

Ashburnham was the eldest son of Sir John Ashburnham by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Beaumont.

Hudson was released, while Ashburnham was positively commanded by the king to flee before confirmation of the order to send him up to London as a delinquent could be received.

An abandoned section of the Springfield Terminal Railroad passes through the town, splitting in South Ashburnham, part of which returns towards Gardner, the other part heading through Winchendon towards New Hampshire.

Opened in 1923, it follows the Wapack Range north-south for, between Mount Watatic in Ashburnham, Massachusetts and North Pack Monadnock mountain in Greenfield, New Hampshire.

The trail passes through the Massachusetts towns of Ashburnham and Ashby, and the New Hampshire towns of New Ipswich, Temple, Sharon, Peterborough, and Greenfield.

Ashburnham County in New South Wales, Australia was named after the 4th Earl.

The nearest mountain of comparable size is Mount Watatic, 1, 832 feet ( 558 m ), to the north on the New Hampshire border in Ashburnham, Massachusetts.

The first section opened in 1847, from the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad at South Ashburnham to Winchendon ; an extension to Troy, New Hampshire also opened in 1847.

The eastern terminus of NH 119 is at the Massachusetts state line in New Ipswich, where the road continues southeast as Massachusetts Route 119 in the town of Ashburnham.

In Worcester County: Ashburnham, Athol, Barre, Fitchburg, Gardner, Hardwick, Hubbardston, Leominster, Lunenburg, New Braintree, Oakham, Petersham, Phillipston, Royalston, Sterling, Templeton, West Brookfield, Westminster, Winchendon.

Route 119 begins in Ashburnham at the New Hampshire state line.

The northern terminus of the Midstate Trail is located on the New Hampshire border on the Ashburnham / Ashby, Massachusetts town line just north of the summit of Mount Watatic ; the southern terminus is located on the Rhode Island border in Douglas, Massachusetts in Douglas State Forest.

In Ashburnham, the Midstate Trail overlaps the Wapack Trail, which runs north into New Hampshire for an additional.