ASHMORE, a parish in that part of the hundred of CRANBORNE which is in the Shaston (West) division of the county of DORSET, 5 miles (S. E.) from Shaftesbury, containing 166 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £7. 19. gi., and in the patronage of the Rev. George Chisholme. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas.