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The South Village area, also referred to on some historic maps as the "Mill Village", is the area surrounding the outlet of the Ashby Reservoir. This small section of town was home to a gristmill and some limited mill housing that was constructed by Ephraim Hayward circa 1800. There are two buildings that still exist to this day on the property ...
The lost village of Canons Ashby is located in ground to the north of Canons Ashby House in the English county of Northamptonshire.Today there is still a small village around the house but this is located away from the original settlement, since the original settlement is now just field occupied by a herd of cows.
Ashby de la Zouch Castle. The town was known as Ashby in 1086. [4] This is a word of Anglo-Danish origin, meaning "Ash-tree farm" or "Ash-tree settlement". [5] The Norman French name extension dates from the years after the Norman conquest of England, when Ashby became a possession of the La Zouche family during the reign of Henry III.
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. [1] It named for the deserted mediaeval villages of Ashby and Oby , with their lost churches.
Moira is a former mining village about 2.5 miles (4 km) south-west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in North West Leicestershire, England. The village is about 3 miles (5 km) south of Swadlincote and is close to the boundary with Derbyshire. The population is included in the civil parish of Ashby Woulds.
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 1921 the parish had a population of 200. [1]
Ashby village sign, 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 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (8.9 km) north-west of Lowestoft. The estimated population of Ashby was around 50 at the 2011 United Kingdom census. There is ...
Willesley is a historic village, ward and suburb of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It was originally in Derbyshire. Willesley Hall was the home of the Abney and later the Abney-Hastings family. It is now one of the wards of Ashby Town Council.