Ashbury, a village and a parish in Berkshire. The village stands near the Ridgeway or Icknield Street, at the W end of Whitehorse Vale, 3 miles SSE of Shrivenham station on the G.W.R., and 7 1/2 S of Farringdon, and it has a post office under Shrivenham, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Bishopstone. The parish includes also the tithings of Idstone and Odstone, and the hamlet of Kingstone-Winslow. Acreage, 5609; population, 706. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £240, in the gift of Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is partly Norman, partly Decorated English. There are Primitive Methodist and Baptist chapels. Ashdown Park is the seat of the Countess of Craven.
