Ash Priors is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated 5 miles (8.0 km) north west of Taunton.

[4] The Village is preserved by planning regulations as an "area of restraint", meaning that no major redevelopment should take place in Ash Priors itself.

It is also part of the Tiverton and Minehead county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Ash Priors Common, south of the village is a 21 hectares (52 acres) local nature reserve of unimproved neutral grassland, semi-natural deciduous woodland, wet heath, scrub, carr, stream, ponds and hedgerows.

[7] Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke was once resident at Ballifants Farm, on the outskirts of the village.