Sheepwash is a village and civil parish on the southern border of the local government district of Torridge, Devon, England.

The parish, which lies about nine miles ENE of the town of Holsworthy, about eight miles south of Great Torrington and about ten miles north-west of Okehampton, is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Buckland Filleigh, Highampton and Black Torrington.

[2] The name Sheepwash is first documented in 1166 (as Schepewast) and means, as it sounds, a place where sheep were washed before shearing.

[2][3] The parish church, which is in the village, is dedicated to St Lawrence.

[4] Other buildings worthy of notice in the parish are Newcourt Barton, about a mile north-east of the village, which dates from the late 16th century with 18th-century and later alterations;[4] and Totleigh Barton which mostly dates to the 16th and 17th centuries, but has surviving medieval features.