Ashbury | |
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![]() St Mary's church | |
Location within Devon | |
Population | 65 |
OS grid reference | SX5098 |
Civil parish | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | Devon and Cornwall |
Fire | Devon and Somerset |
Ambulance | South Western |
Ashbury is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Northlew, in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. It is 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Hatherleigh. Its population is 65.
The Church of England church in Ashbury is dedicated to St Mary. In 1912 a William Dennis, born in the village in 1886, died in the Titanic disaster.[1] Ashbury & Northlew Golf Club (now defunct) was in existence during the 1920s (and possibly 1930s).[2]