Ashley
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Ashley is a place name, a surname as well as both a male and female given name. A place name and surname, it is derived from the Old Dutch words 'æsc' (ash) and 'lēah' (meadow).

Ashley can also be spelled Ashlie, Ashlee, Ashleigh, Ashliegh and Ashlaie.

United Kingdom

  • Ashley, Cambridgeshire
    Ashley, Cambridgeshire
    Ashley is a village and civil parish in the East Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about four miles east of Newmarket in Suffolk....

  • Ashley, Gloucestershire
    Ashley, Gloucestershire
    Ashley is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about 8 miles south-west of Cirencester. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 142....

  • Ashley, East Hampshire
    Ashley, East Hampshire
    Ashley is a hamlet in the large civil parish of Bentworth in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Alton, which lies approximately 4.3 miles east from the hamlet. Its nearest train station was formerly the Bentworth and Lasham railway station on the Basingstoke and...

  • Ashley, Test Valley, Hampshire
  • Ashley, West Hampshire
    Ashley, West Hampshire
    Ashley is a village located in the southwest of Hampshire, England. It lies on the eastern outskirts of New Milton in the New Forest district, and is two miles inland from the sea. Its history dates back to the Domesday book of 1086, when two estates were recorded. In the 15th century much of...

  • Ashley, Kent
    Ashley, Kent
    Ashley is a hamlet located in the parish of Sutton, some five miles north of Dover on the summit of Gants Hill in Kent, England. Ashley runs almost seamlessly into the neighbouring village of Studdal. The A256 road passes to the west of Ashley.The main road running through Ashley is Chapel Lane...

  • Ashley, Northamptonshire
    Ashley, Northamptonshire
    Ashley is a village and civil parish in the Kettering district of Northamptonshire, England, about northeast of Market Harborough, Leicestershire and west of Corby. The village is near the River Welland, which forms the border with Leicestershire...

  • Ashley, Staffordshire
    Ashley, Staffordshire
    Ashley is a village and former civil parish in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme of Staffordshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 508...

  • Ashley, Cheshire
    Ashley, Cheshire
    Ashley is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 261. The village is at a crossroads close to the border of Cheshire with Greater Manchester, and is just to the south...


United States

  • Ashley County, Arkansas
  • Ashley, Illinois
    Ashley, Illinois
    Ashley is a city in Washington County, Illinois, United States. The population was 536 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Ashley is located at ....

  • Ashley, Indiana
    Ashley, Indiana
    Ashley is a town in Indiana located on the border of Smithfield Township, DeKalb County and Steuben Township, Steuben County. The population was 983 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Ashley is located at ....

  • Ashley, Michigan
    Ashley, Michigan
    Ashley is a village in Gratiot County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 526 at the 2000 census. The village is located in the northwest corner of Elba Township. No major state trunkline goes through the village although M-57 passes to south by less than...

  • Ashley, North Dakota
    Ashley, North Dakota
    As of the census of 2000, there were 882 people, 436 households, and 258 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,404.9 people per square mile . There were 528 housing units at an average density of 841.0 per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 98.41% White, 0.34%...

  • Ashley, Ohio
    Ashley, Ohio
    Ashley is a village in Delaware County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,216 at the 2000 census.Ashley students attend the Buckeye Valley Local School District.-Geography:Ashley is located at ....

  • Ashley, Pennsylvania
    Ashley, Pennsylvania
    Ashley is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, one mile from Wilkes Barre. It was a productive coal-mining area at the start of the twentieth century. Population in 1900, 4,046; in 1910, 5,601; and in 1940, 6,371...

  • Ashley, West Virginia
    Ashley, West Virginia
    Ashley is an unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States. Ashley is located on West Virginia Route 23 northeast of West Union....

  • Ashley, Wisconsin
    Ashley, Wisconsin
    Ashley is an unincorporated community located in the towns of Guenther and Knowlton, in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States....


Given name

  • Ashley (name)
    Ashley (name)
    The name "Ashley" is of English origin, from a place name and surname from the Old English words 'æsc' and 'lēah' ....

    , a male or female given name
  • Ashley (wrestler), Ashley Massaro, a professional wrestler


Other uses

  • Ashley (automobile)
    Ashley (automobile)
    Ashley were manufacturer of body shells and chassis for specials from 1955 to 1962. They also offered a range of products for special builders: radiators, header tanks, lighting sets, steel tubing, sheet aluminium, various suspension parts, water pumps, tires, tubes and wheels...

    , a kit car manufactured in England from 1954 to 1962
  • Ashley Furniture, an American furniture company
  • Ashley Script
    Ashley Script
    Ashley Script is a typeface developed by the British designer Ashley Havinden in 1955 for Monotype Corporation.Ashley Script is a brush script and is based on Havinden's own handwriting....

    , a typeface created by Ashley Havinden
  • Ashley Treatment
    Ashley Treatment
    The Ashley Treatment refers to a controversial set of medical procedures undergone by a Seattle child, "Ashley X". Ashley, born in 1997, has severe developmental disabilities due to static encephalopathy of unknown etiology; she is, and will remain, at an infant level mentally and physically...

    , a controversial treatment for static encephalopathy
  • The Ashley Book of Knots
    The Ashley Book of Knots
    The Ashley Book of Knots is an encyclopedia of knots first published in 1944 by Clifford Warren Ashley. The culmination of over 11 years of work, it contains some 7000 illustrations and more than 3854 entries covering over 2000 different knots. The entries include instructions, uses, and for some...

    , a reference manual on the use, history, appearance, and tying of knots by Clifford Ashley
  • "Ashley", a 2008 song by Escape the Fate
    Escape the Fate
    Escape the Fate is an American post-hardcore band from Las Vegas, Nevada formed in 2005 and originally from Pahrump, Nevada. They have released three EPs and three full-length studio albums. Dying Is Your Latest Fashion was the band's debut album and only album to feature vocalist Ronnie Radke...


See also

  • Aisling (given name)
    Aisling (given name)
    Aisling is an Irish language feminine given name meaning "dream" or "vision" and referring to an aisling, a poetic genre that developed during the late 17th and 18th century in Irish language genre poetry...

    , from Irish (Gaelic)
  • Ashli
    Ashli
    Ashli or Aşlı was a mysterious medieval Volga Bulgarian town. In Russian chronicles it is known as Oshel .Whereas archaeologic excavations prove that the city appeared as early as in 11th century, the Tatar legends and the Russian Tver Chronicle state that the city was founded by Alexander the...

    , a medieval Volga Bulgarian town
  • Leigh (disambiguation), Old English for "a woodland clearing"
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