Ashby, a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles SW of Buckenham station on the G.E.R., and 7 SE of Norwich, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Loddon. Acreage, 503; population, 176. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Carleton, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is an ancient building of flint, in the Early English style.