Ashcombe

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Ashcombe
Ashcombe shown within Devon
OS grid reference	SX9179
Shire county	Devon
Region	South West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western
European Parliament	South West England
List of places: UK • England • Devon

Coordinates: 50°36′N 3°32′W / 50.6, -3.54

Ashcombe is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England, about six miles north of Teignmouth. The parish had a population of 77 according to the 2001 census. The village lies on the south-eastern side of the Haldon hills in the valley of the stream known as Dawlish Water.

The church of St. Nectan in Ashcombe.

The church which is dedicated to Saint Nectan has thirteenth-century lancets and a fourteenth-century chancel arch; the oak seats were carved in the sixteenth century.

The village was recorded in the Domesday Book.^[1]