Ashreigney is located within Torridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of North Tawton Hundred. It falls within Chulmleigh 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 756 in 1801 540 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.In 1641/2 154 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in South Molton 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 Ashreigney 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 42/6 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 42NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS629136. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS61SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 127, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 180. Geological sheet 309 also covers the area.

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

ASHREIGNEY The church (St. James) is 15th century, over-restored in 1889-90 and of little interest. Goodcott, Hook Farm, and Riddlecombe were all Domesday manors. Hansford Barton is mentioned as early as 1205.