Description
Ashill, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands 4 miles NW of Ilminster station on the G.W.R., and 8 1/2 SSE of Taunton. It has a post office under Ilminster; money order and telegraph office, Hatch Beauchamp. The parish comprises 2740 acres; population of the civil parish, 552; of the ecclesiastical, 414. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1882.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
