Ashwick is a village in the Mendip district of Somerset, England, about three miles north of Shepton Mallet and seven miles east from Wells. It has also been a civil parish since 1826. The parish had a population of 1,291 according to the 2001 census, and apart from Ashwick village also includes Gurney Slade, and Oakhill: Although Oakhill is the larger village today, Ashwick is the older settlement, dating back to Anglo-Saxon times. It appears in the Domesday book as a settlement called Escewiche, which translates as the hamlet or farmstead by the ash trees. The Fosse Way passes to the east of the parish.