Ashampstead, a parish in Berks, 5 miles SW of Pangbourne station on the G.W.R., and 11 W by N of Reading, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Bradfield. Acreage, 2082; population, 328. Part of the land is common. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; yearly value, £55. The church is a small edifice in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.
