Ashley is a place name derived from the Old English words æsċ (“ash”) and lēah (“meadow”). It may refer to:

People and fictional characters

  • Ashley (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
  • Ashley (surname), a list of people
  • Ashley (singer) (born 1975), Puerto Rican singer
  • Ashley, South Korean singer and leader of Ladies' Code
  • Ashley, a character from the WarioWare video game series.

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Places

Australia

  • Ashley, New South Wales

England

  • Ashley, Cambridgeshire
  • Ashley, Cheshire
  • Ashley, Dorset, a settlement in St Leonards and St Ives parish
  • Ashley, Gloucestershire
  • Ashley, East Hampshire
  • Ashley, New Forest, Hampshire
  • Ashley, Test Valley, Hampshire
  • Ashley, Kent
  • Ashley, Northamptonshire
  • Ashley, Staffordshire
  • Ashley, Wiltshire
  • Ashley (Bristol ward)
  • Ashley Heath, Dorset

New Zealand

  • Ashley, New Zealand
  • Ashley (New Zealand electorate), a former electorate 1866–1902
  • Ashley River / Rakahuri, which flows past the settlement in Canterbury

United States

  • Ashley County, Arkansas
  • Ashley, Illinois
  • Ashley, Indiana
  • Ashley, Michigan
  • Ashley, Missouri
  • Ashley, North Dakota
  • Ashley, Ohio
  • Ashley, Pennsylvania
  • Ashley, West Virginia
  • Ashley, Wisconsin
  • Ashley River, South Carolina

Music

  • "Ashley", a 2008 song from This War Is Ours by Escape the Fate
  • "Ashley", a 2008 song from Visiter by The Dodos
  • "Ashley", a 2012 song from ¡Dos! by Green Day
  • "Ashley", a 2013 song from Hall of Fame by Big Sean
  • "Ashley", a 2020 song from Manic by Halsey

Other uses

  • Ashley (automobile), a kit car manufactured in England from 1954 to 1962
  • Ashley (restaurant), a South Korean restaurant chain
  • Ashley Furniture, an American furniture company
  • Ashley Script, a typeface created by Ashley Havinden
  • Ashley Treatment, a controversial treatment for static encephalopathy
  • Corbett v Corbett, otherwise Ashley , 1970 English transsexual divorce case
  • Storm Ashley, 2024 storm in north-western Europe

See also

  • The Ashley Book of Knots, a reference manual on the use, history, appearance, and tying of knots by Clifford Ashley
  • Aşlı, a medieval Volga Bulgarian town