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Ashmore is a village and civil parish in the North Dorset district of Dorset, England, southwest of Salisbury.

The village is centred on a circular pond and has a church and several stone cottages and farms, many with thatched roofs. It is the highest village in the county with the contour passing close to the village church (although the north side of the town of Shaftesbury, Dorset, is slightly higher at ).

The pond or "mere" gave the village its original name of "Ash-mere".

In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 188.^[1]