Ashmanhaugh is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, situated some 20 km north east of Norwich. See Inside the churches of St Swithins here & Beeston St Lawrence here. Apart from Ashmanhaugh village itself, the parish also includes Beeston St Lawrence, which was a separate parish until 1935.

The village name derives from 'Sailor's/pirate's enclosure' or perhaps, 'Aescmann's enclosure'.

The civil parish has an area of 4.82 square kilometres and in the 2001 census had a population of 197 in 74 households, the population falling to 189 at the 2011 census.^[1] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.^[1][2]

The churches of Ashmanhaugh St Swithin and Beeston St Lawrence are two of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.

St. Swithin's Church holds a plaque commemorating Ashmanhaugh's war dead from the First World War which are listed as:

• Lance-Sergeant George Townshend (1895–1916), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
• Private Ronald S. Bird (1894–1917), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
• Private George Riches (1887–1918), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
• Private H. William Riches (1883–1916), 12th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment

• ^ Vision of Britain. Ashmanhaugh CP/AP Norfolk through time. Retrieved 4 December 2005.
• ^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001. Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved 2 December 2005.

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Ashmanhaugh

• Ashmanhaugh St Swithin's on the European Round Tower Churches Website
• Beeston St Lawrence's on the European Round Tower Churches Website
• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Ashmanhaugh.