Ashwell is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

James Adams (died 1903), rector, who won a Victoria Cross in Afghanistan in 1879, is buried in the churchyard.

[5] The Royalist rector, Thomas Mason, was ejected in 1644 and Richard Levett (or Levet) was intruded in his place on 13 May 1646.

The legitimate incumbent was reinstated in 1660 when Charles II was restored to the throne and served for twenty years until his death.

Previously the site was a Second World War US army base, home to part of the 82nd Airborne Division.