Ashley.
A number of villages and hamlets in England:
Meaning & usage
A number of villages and hamlets in England: A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL6961).
A number of villages and hamlets in England: A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ7784).
A number of villages and hamlets in England: A settlement in St Leonards and St Ives parish, east Dorset (OS grid ref SU1304).
A number of villages and hamlets in England: A village and civil parish (without a council) in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST9394).
A number of villages and hamlets in England: A hamlet in Bentworth parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU6440).
A number of villages and hamlets in England: A suburb in New Milton parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ2595).
A number of villages and hamlets in England: A village and civil parish (without a council) in Test Valley district, Hampshire. (OS grid ref SU3831).
A number of villages and hamlets in England: A hamlet in Sutton parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3048).
A number of villages and hamlets in England: A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, previously in Kettering district (OS grid ref SP7990).
A number of villages and hamlets in England: A village in Loggerheads parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ7636).
A number of villages and hamlets in England: A village in Box parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8168).
A surname from Old English derived from the places in England.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A female given name transferred from the surname.
A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Washington County, Illinois; named for railroad official Col. L. W. Ashley.
A number of places in the United States: A town in Smithfield Township, DeKalb County and Steuben Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States: A village in Elba Township, Gratiot County, Michigan.
A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Pike County, Missouri; named for the state's first lieutenant governor, William Henry Ashley.
A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of McIntosh County, North Dakota; named for railroad official Ashley E. Morrow.
A number of places in the United States: A village in Oxford Township, Delaware County, Ohio; named for Col. L. W. Ashley.
A number of places in the United States: A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia; named for the local Ash family.
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in the towns of Guenther and Knowlton, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
A locality in Moree Plains Shire, New South Wales, Australia; named for one of the settlements in England.
A small settlement and river north of Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Where this word comes from
From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash + -ley.
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