Ashwater, a village and a parish in Devon. The village stands 7 miles SSE of Holsworthy, and has a station on a section of the L. & S.W.R., 215 miles from London. The parish includes also the hamlet of Quoditch. It has a post office under Beaworthy, and there is a telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 8710 ; population, 756. Good building-stone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £700. The church is an old structure, with lofty pinnacled tower, and contains several monuments and a very fine ancient font. There are two chapels for Bible Christians.
