Ashby, West, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles N by E of Horncastle station on the G.N.R. It contains the hamlets of Farthorpe and Middlethorpe, and its post town is Horncastle, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2739; population, 342. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £200. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Later English. There are six almshouses, endowed by Lady Wray with £30 a year, and a Wesleyan chapel.