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), Engl ...
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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 ...
(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) ...
(1932—2008), 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 w ...
United Kingdom
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Ashby, Lincolnshire
Ashby is a suburb of Scunthorpe, in the North Lincolnshire district, in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England.
Education
Grange Lane Junior School is located under the shadow of the Corus steel works. It is a mixed school, that educat ...
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Ashby, Suffolk
Ashby is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet, in the East Suffolk district, in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is north-west of Lowestoft.
The estimated population of Ashby was aroun ...
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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, ...
, Norfolk
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Ashby by Partney, 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 2001 census the population was recorded as 248, increasing marginally to 249 at the 2 ...
, Lincolnshire
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Ashby de la Launde
Ashby de la Launde is a small village, part of the 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, and east of the A15 and B1191 roads. In ...
, Lincolnshire
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Ashby-de-la-Zouch (), also spelled Ashby de la Zouch, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire borders. Its population at the 2021 census was ...
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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' wa ...
, 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 junct ...
, Leicestershire
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Ashby Parva, Leicestershire
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Ashby Puerorum
Ashby Puerorum is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Greetham with Somersby, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The village situated north-west from Partney, east from Horncastle, to the nort ...
, 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 1 ...
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Canons Ashby
Canons Ashby is a small village and 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 National Trust property. ...
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Castle Ashby
Castle Ashby is a village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the parish (including Chadstone) was 111.
Historically, the village was set u ...
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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 English county, county of Northamptonshire, England. It lies between the county town of Northampton and Wellingborough and was in the West ward of Wellingborough (borough), borough council of Wellingborough area w ...
, 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 ham ...
, 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 United States census, 2020 census, which makes it the least populous municipality in Middle ...
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Ashby, Minnesota
Ashby is a city in northeastern Grant County, Minnesota, Grant County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 469 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
History
Ashby was platted in 1879, and named for Gunder Ash, an early Norweg ...
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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 Hy ...
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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 U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regio ...
Buildings
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Ashby (BART station)
Ashby station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in Berkeley, California. The station is located beneath Adeline Street to the south of its intersection with Ashby Avenue. The station includes park-and-ride facilities wi ...
, a passenger rail station in Berkeley, California
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Ashby (MARTA station)
Ashby is an underground subway 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 ...
, a passenger rail station in Atlanta, Georgia
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Ashby Manor Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
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Ashby (Ladoga, Indiana), 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 literary avant-garde writer who wrote fiction, non-fiction, and plays. He is best known for his 1967 novel ''Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats'' (''Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers''), ...
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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), an English cyclecar manufactured 1919–1924
See also
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Ashbee, surname
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