Ashbury, anciently Essebury, a parish in Devon, on an affluent of the river Torridge, 5 miles SSW of Hatherleigh, with a station on the Okehampton and Holsworthy branch of the L. & S.W.R., 206 miles from London. Post town, Beaworthy, which is the money order office; telegraph office, at the railway station. Acreage, 1748; population, 69. The manor, with most of the property, belongs to the owner of Ashbury Court, a large old residence with fine views over Dartmoor. The living is a rectory, united with North Lew, in the diocese of Exeter; value, £500, in the gift of the Crown. The church is a small edifice, with nave, chancel, and tower. It was restored in 1872.
