ASHWICK, a parish in the hundred of KILMERSDON,
county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (N. by E.) from
Shepton-Mallet, containing 829 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of
Kilmersdon, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese
of Bath and Wells, The church is dedicated to St.
James. There are places of worship for Methodists
and Presbyterians. Here is a considerable brewery, and
in the neighbourhood are many coal mines. On the
south-western side of the parish, near the Fosse-way,
there is a Roman camp, -with a double intrenchment,
called Masbury Castle.