ASHLEY, a parish in the hundred of KING'S-SOMBOURN,
Andover division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
3 miles (S. S. E.) from Stockbridge, containing 90
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's
books at £7. 16. 3., and in the patronage of the Rev. R.
C. Taunton. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. In
this parish are vestiges of several Roman camps, and
a circular intrenchment of considerable dimensions,
supposed to be British or Danish.