Ashcott is a small village and civil parish located in the Sedgemoor area of Somerset in the south-west of England.

It raises money for the Playing Fields, Cheeky Chimps Pre-School and the Ashcott Primary School PTA.

[2] The village was a stop for mail coaches running from Bath to Exeter, and later had a station on the Evercreech Junction to Burnham-on-Sea branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.

"Meare" was dropped from the official name in 1876, though the station "running board" – the large sign on the platform – continued to give the double name until the railway line closed in 1966 under the Beeching Axe.

On 29 August 1949 a train on the branch collided with a narrow gauge engine and the locomotive ended up in the adjacent Glastonbury Canal.