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Ascis
was an outlier of the manor of Cleeve (just south of Ross) and
represents an English incursion across the Wye into the Welsh
lands of Archenfield. In 1066 Cleeve was held by Harold
Godwinson, briefly to be King of Enland before his death at
the Battle of Hastings.
After
1066 all Harold's lands were confiscated by King William I and
Cleeve was a royal manor. The outlier of Ashe was held of the
king by Alfred of Marlborough. Ashe Ingen had been waste
before 1066 but in 1086 Alfred had a man there with 1½
ploughs; he paid ten shillings in revenue. The revenue in
shillings was very unusual in Archenfield. The name Ascis is
Old English and refers to ash trees. The suffix Ingen seems to
derive from a person named Hingan who was alive in the 1120s | 
