Ashcombe is a parish and scattered village near the source of a rivulet, 3 miles E. of Chudleigh, 5 miles N.W. of Teignmouth, in St. Thomas's union, Exeter county court district and archdeaconry, Wonford petty sessional division, Eastern division of the county, Kenn rural deanery, and Exminster hundred. It had 213 inhabitants (117 males and 96 females) in 1871, living in 37 houses, on 1932 acres of land, including about 500 acres of waste and plantation. Sir Lydstone Newman, Bart., is lord of the manor and owner of most of the soil.
