Ashley

Meanings

1. A number of villages and hamlets in England:
2. A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL6961).
3. A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ7784).
4. A settlement in St Leonards and St Ives parish, east Dorset (OS grid ref SU1304).
5. A village and civil parish (without a council) in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST9394).
6. A hamlet in Bentworth parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU6440).
7. A suburb in New Milton parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ2595).
8. A village and civil parish (without a council) in Test Valley district, Hampshire. (OS grid ref SU3831).
9. A hamlet in Sutton parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3048).
10. A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, previously in Kettering district (OS grid ref SP7990).
11. A village in Loggerheads parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ7636).
12. A village in Box parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8168).

Etymology

From Old English *Æsċlēah, composed of æsċ (“ash tree”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to Ash + -ley.

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