ASHREIGNEY, or RING'S-ASH, a parish in the
hundred of NORTH-TAWTON-with-WINKLEY, county of
DEVON, 4 miles (<&. by S.) from Chulmleigh, containing
858 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Barnstaple, and diocese of Exeter, rated
in the king's books at £ 24, and in the patronage of
the Rev. J. T. Johnson. The church is dedicated to
St. James. A school for the instruction of boys and
girls has been endowed with £10 per annum by Mrs.
Gertrude Pyncombe.