ROSE-ASH, a parish in the hundred of WITHERIDGE,
county of DEVON, 5 miles (E. S. E.) from South
Molton, containing 436 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £18. 19. 7., and
in the patronage of the Representatives of the families of
Esse and Giffard. A charity school is partly supported
with two small endowments, by Ann Vicary in 1753,
and John Bray in 1764.