Ashby-cum-Oby, a united parish in Norfolk, 2 miles SSE from Potter Heigham station on the G.E.R. and M.R., and 10 NW from Yarmouth, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Martham and Acle. Acreage, 1394; population, 90. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich, consolidated with Thurne and Oby; joint gross yearly value, £483, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich. The churches of both Ashby and Oby have disappeared.