Ashcombe is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Exminster Hundred. It falls within Kenn Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 280 in 1801 125 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.In 1641/2 61 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Dawlish Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website

Maps: The image below is of the Ashcombe area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 102/6 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 102NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX914796. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX97NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

ASHCOMBE lies in a beautiful hollow below the Haldon Hills. Its small medieval church (St. Nectan) was largely rebuilt in 1824-5 and is charming. The character of the church is derived almost entirely from the early 19th century work: it is perfect of its kind, with delicately colour-washed wagon roofs and walls. Baring-Gould, however, in the Little Guide, did not approve: "the fine screen was destroyed in 1820, and a good deal of money was then spent in making the church as hideous as the taste of that period could arrive at."