Ashcombe, a parish in Devon, 3 miles E of Chudleigh, and 3 NW of Dawlish station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Dawlish; the money order and. telegraph office is at Chudleigh. Acreage, 1968; population, 167. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £290. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a small edifice, repaired and partly rebuilt in 1825, and has a square tower and a stained glass east window.