Askerswell, a parish in Dorset, on the Asker, an affluent of the river Brid, 2 miles from Powerstock station on the G.W.R., and 5 from Bridport, under which it has a post office, and at which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1724; population of the civil parish, 230; of the ecclesiastical, 194. The surface is a pleasant valey surrounded by hills. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £410. The church was rebuilt and enlarged in 1858, but has a tower which belonged to a previous edifice.
