Description
Ashwick, a parish in Somerset, on the Fosse way, near Masbury camp, 1 1/2 mile from Binegar station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway. Post town, Bath; money order office, Oakhill; telegraph office, Shepton Mallet. Acreage, 1530; population of the civil parish, 814; of the ecclesiastical, 640. Ashwick Grove is the seat of the Stracheys. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £IIO. Patron, the Vicar of Kilmersdon. The church is good and has been well preserved; there are two dissenting chapels. The villages of Nettlebridge and Gurney Slade are partly in this parish.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
