Ashwood is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, South Carolina, United States.

The CDP is bordered to the northeast by Scape Ore Swamp and to the southwest by its tributary McGrits Creek and Ashwood Lake.

The community is part of the Black River watershed, flowing to Winyah Bay at Georgetown.

The Ashwood School Gymnasium and Auditorium is a 1930s-era building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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