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Ashbury

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Meaning

(countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

(uncountable) A placename:
A small village in Northlew parish, West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5097).

A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU2685).

A suburb of Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.

A suburb of Bloemfontein, Free State province, South Africa.

A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia; a portmanteau of Ashfield and Canterbury.

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A HANDBAG was stolen from a vehicle that was parked at the Ridgeway car park in Ashbury village. Source: Internet

College friend Ray S. Ashbury remembered Hawks spending more of his time playing craps and drinking alcohol than studying, although Hawks was also known to be a voracious reader of popular American and English novels in college. Source: Internet

Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir commented: Haight Ashbury was a ghetto of bohemians who wanted to do anything—- and we did but I don't think it has happened since. Source: Internet

She’s having a hard time putting the past behind her, especially since she confronts it daily, during the hourlong commute to London from her rented room in Ashbury, Oxfordshire, when her train passes the Victorian house she once shared with Tom. Source: Internet

But Haight Ashbury was not about drugs. Source: Internet

"In 1969, Gilbert Levy left the Haigh Ashbury district of San Francisco and took the overland trail through Afganistan and PAkistan, first to Bombay and then to Goa. Source: Internet

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