Asby is a village in

Ydre Municipality Ydre Municipality (''Ydre kommun'') is a municipality in Östergötland County, southeast Sweden. The municipal seat is located in the town of Österbymo. The municipality was created through the local government reform of 1952, when six former ...

Östergötland County Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or '' län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Örebro to the northwest, and Södermanland to the ...

. It lies in the traditional province of Östergötland near the arm of the Lake Sommen called Asbyfjärden. According to ''Svenskt ortnamnslexikon'' the name of the locality is first attested in 1336 as Aasby, in reference to the

drumlin A drumlin, from the Irish word ''droimnín'' ("littlest ridge"), first recorded in 1833, in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated ...

-like ridge ( sv, ås) the locality is built on. Sweden's stoutest spruce grows in Asby.

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Villages in Sweden Populated places in Ydre Municipality {{Sweden-geo-stub