Ashton, a parish in Devon, adjoining the river Teign, 4 miles N of Chudleigh, with a station on the Teign Valley branch of the G.W.R. Post town, Chudleigh under Newton Abbot. Acreage, 2182 ; population of the civil parish, 209 ; of the ecclesiastical, 194. The Chudleighs were proprietors for several hundred years; and their mansion, some remains of which still exist, was garrisoned for King Charles I., and taken by the Parliamentarians. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; value, £270. The church is a small ancient edifice, with square turreted tower. By a Local Government order in 1884, Middle Bramble and Lower Bramble were amalgamated with the parish.
