Ashby may refer to:
People
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Ashby (surname) Ashby is an English language, English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Aaron Ashby (born 1998), American baseball player
*Alan Ashby (born 1951), American baseball player
*Alexander Essebiensis (Alexander of Ashby) (c. 1220), Eng ...
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Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby
Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby (9 October 1267 – shortly before 25 March 1314) was born at North Molton, Devonshire, the only son of Roger La Zouche and his wife, Ela Longespée, daughter of Stephen Longespée and Emmeline de ...
(1267–1314), governor of Rockingham Castle and steward of Rockingham Forest, England
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Walter Ashby Plecker
Walter Ashby Plecker (April 2, 1861 – August 2, 1947) was an American physician and public health advocate who was the first registrar of Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics, serving from 1912 to 1946. He was a leader of the Anglo-Saxon Club ...
(1861–1947), American physician and public health advocate
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Henry Ashby Turner
Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (April 4, 1932 – December 17, 2008) was an American historian of Germany who was a professor at Yale University for over forty years. He is best known for his book ''German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler'' (1985) ...
(born 1932), American historian of Germany
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Ashby Pate (born 1978), American lawyer
Places
Australia
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Ashby, Victoria
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Ashby, Western Australia
Ashby is a suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia north of Perth's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Wanneroo.
The suburb came into being in the late 1990s as a subdivision of Wanneroo, and wa ...
United Kingdom
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Ashby, Lincolnshire
Ashby is a suburb of Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire, England. The population of the suburb is included in the Brumby ward of the North Lincolnshire Unitary Authority.
Education
Grange Lane Junior School is located under the shadow of the Corus stee ...
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Ashby, Suffolk
Ashby is a former civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is north-west of Lowestoft in the East Suffolk district. The parish was combined with Somerleyton and Herringfleet to form the combined parish of Somerleyton, Ashb ...
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Ashby with Oby
Ashby with Oby is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, which is located some 5 km or 3 miles north of Acle and 15 km or 9 miles north-west of Great Yarmouth. It named for the deserted mediaeval villages of Ashby and Oby, wit ...
, Norfolk
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Ashby by Partney
Ashby by Partney is a hamlet in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated to the south of the A158 road, and east from the town of Spilsby. It neighbours the village of Partney, and forms part of the civil parish of As ...
, Lincolnshire
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Ashby cum Fenby
Ashby cum Fenby is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England, approximately south from Grimsby, and just east of the A18 road.
In the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 Census the population was recorded as 248, increasing ...
, Lincolnshire
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Ashby de la Launde
Ashby de la Launde is a small village, part of the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated just west of Digby, Lincolnshire, D ...
, Lincolnshire
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, sometimes spelt Ashby de la Zouch () and shortened locally to Ashby, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. The town is near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire ...
, Leicestershire
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Ashby Folville
Ashby Folville is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Gaddesby, in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, south west of Melton Mowbray. In 1931 the parish had a population of 123.
History
The village of 'Ashby' w ...
, Leicestershire
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Ashby Magna
Ashby Magna is a small English village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. The parish has a population of 294, increasing at the 2011 census to 347. It is in the west of the district, and lies midway between junctio ...
, Leicestershire
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Ashby Parva
Ashby Parva is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. The parish had a population of 211 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 233 at the 2011 census. The village is in the west of the district, ...
, Leicestershire
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Ashby Puerorum
Ashby Puerorum is a small village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The village situated north-west from Partney, east from Horncastle, Lincolnshire, Horncastle, to the north of the A158 road, and to the west of Bag Ender ...
, Lincolnshire
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Ashby St Ledgers
Ashby St Ledgers is a village in the West Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England.OS Explorer Map Map 223 - Northampton & Market Harborough (1:25 000) The post town is Rugby in Warwickshire. The population of the civil parish at ...
, Northamptonshire
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Ashby St Mary
Ashby St Mary, historically Ascebei, is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 297 in 115 households, the population increasing to 316 in 120 ...
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Canons Ashby
Canons Ashby is a small village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Preston Capes.
Its most notable building is Canons Ashby House, a N ...
, Northamptonshire
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Castle Ashby
Castle Ashby is the name of a civil parish, an estate village and an English country house in rural Northamptonshire. Historically the village was set up to service the needs of Castle Ashby House, the seat of the Marquess of Northampton. The v ...
, Northamptonshire
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Cold Ashby
Cold Ashby is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire in England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 255 people, increasing to 278 at the 2011 census.
The villages name means 'Ash-tree farm/settlement' or ' ...
, Northamptonshire
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Mears Ashby
Mears Ashby is a village in the county of Northamptonshire, England. It lies between the county town of Northampton and Wellingborough and was in the West ward of borough council of Wellingborough area which also included Sywell prior to loc ...
, Northamptonshire
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West Ashby
West Ashby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the Horncastle to Louth A153 road, and north from the centre of Horncastle. Farthorpe, Middlethorpe, and Furzehills are hamlets ...
, Lincolnshire
United States
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Ashby, Massachusetts
Ashby is a New England town, town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,193 at the 2020 census, which makes it the least populous municipality in Middlesex County. The Town of Ashb ...
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Ashby, Minnesota
Ashby is a city in Grant County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 469 at the 2020 census.
History
Ashby was platted in 1879, and named for Gunder Ash, an early Norwegian settler. A post office has been in operation at Ashby since 18 ...
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Ashby, Nebraska
Ashby is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Nebraska, United States. Its elevation is 3,843 feet (1,173 m), and it is located at (42.0219276, -101.9276811). It lies along Nebraska Highway 2, 9 miles (14½ km) west-northwest of Hyann ...
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Ashby, Cumberland County, Virginia Ashby is an unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Virginia
Cumberland County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,675. Its county seat is Cumberland.
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Ashby, Warren County, Virginia
Ashby is an unincorporated community in Warren County, Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalac ...
Buildings
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Ashby (BART station)
Ashby is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located beneath Adeline Street to the south of its intersection with Ashby Avenue in South Berkeley of Berkeley, California. The station includes park-and-ride facilities with 715 automobile park ...
, a passenger rail station in Berkeley, California
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Ashby (MARTA station)
Ashby is a train station in Atlanta, Georgia, serving the Blue and Green lines of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system. It incorporates the use of split platforms, where the westbound platform is on the upper le ...
, a passenger rail station in Atlanta, Georgia
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Ashby Manor Historic District
The Ashby Manor Historic District is located in northwest Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It is a residential area that lies between Beaver Avenue, which is a major north–south artery, on the west and Ashby Park on the east. The historic p ...
, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
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Ashby (Ladoga, Indiana)
Ashby is a historic home located in Scott Township, Montgomery County, Indiana. It was built in 1883, and is a two-story, three-bay, L-shaped, Italianate style brick dwelling on a limestone foundation. It has a hipped roof, wood entrance portico ...
, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana
Other uses
* ''Ashby'', a novel by
Pierre Guyotat
Pierre Guyotat (9 January 1940 – 7 February 2020) was a French writer.
Early life
Pierre Guyotat was born on 9 January 1940 in Bourg-Argental, Loire.
Literary career 1960s–1970s
Guyotat wrote his first novel, '' Sur un cheval'', in 1960. ...
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Material selection#Ashby plots, a diagram with chemical elements
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''Ashby'' (film), a 2015 drama film starring Mickey Rourke
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Ashby (automobile)
The Ashby was a cyclecar produced in Towcester, Northamptonshire, and Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Lancashire, between 1919 and 1924 by Victor Ashby and Son, who owned a garage in Towcester with manufacturing capabilities.
After returning from the First ...
, an English cyclecar manufactured 1919–1924
See also
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Ashbee Ashbee is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Barry Ashbee (1939–1977), Canadian ice hockey player
* Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942), English designer and entrepreneur
* Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900), English merchant, ...
, surname
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