Ashby
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English æsċ (“ashtree”) + Old Norse býr (“farm, town”).
Proper noun edit
Ashby
- A surname.
- A male given name
- Clipping of Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
- A southern suburb of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE8908).
- A locality and former civil parish, now in Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet parish, East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM4899).
- A number of places in the United States:
- A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
- A minor city in Grant County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Grant County, Nebraska.
- An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Warren County, Virginia.
- Former name of Geelong West, Victoria, Australia.
- A suburb of Perth, in the City of Wanneroo, Western Australia.