Cliff Ashton
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| full_name = Clifford Ashton
| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|12|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = Cwmavon, Wales
| death_date = {{death date and age|2001|03|29|1932|12|17|df=y}}
| death_place = Newport, Wales
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| position = Outside-half
| repyears1 = 1959–62
| repteam1 = {{nrut|Wales}}
| repcaps1 = 7
| reppoints1 = 3
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Clifford Ashton (17 December 1932 – 29 March 2001) was a Welsh international rugby union player.{{cite news |title=Rugby Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/259509576 |work=The Guardian |date=3 April 2001}}
Biography
Born in Cwmavon, Neath Port Talbot, Ashton was an elusive outside-half and skilled drop-goal exponent, capped seven times for Wales from 1959 to 1962, while a Aberavon RFC player.{{cite news |title=Cliff Ashton — that 'elusive pimpernel' |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003431/19590925/158/0012 |work=Neath Guardian |date=5 September 1959}}{{cite news |title=Ashton notches 140 with 11th dropped goal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1056505495 |work=South Wales Argus |date=12 March 1966}}
Ashton later played for Chepstow, soon after relocating to the town in 1962.{{cite news |last1=Scrivens |first1=George |title=Cliff Ashton gives up serious rugby |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1057131534 |work=South Wales Argus |date=13 January 1962}}
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