Ashford

Ashford is a relatively common English placename: it goes back to Old English æscet, indicating a ford near a clump of ash trees. It may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Ashford, New South Wales
• Ashford, South Australia
• Electoral district of Ashford, South Australia

Canada

• Ashford, Quebec

Ireland

• Ashford, County Wicklow
• Ashford Castle, County Galway

United Kingdom

• Ashford, North Devon
• Ashford, South Hams, Devon
• Ashford Hill, Hampshire
• Ashford, Kent, a town
  • Borough of Ashford, a local government district in Kent
  • Ashford (UK Parliament constituency), Kent
• Ashford, Surrey or Ashford, Middlesex, a town in Surrey (in Middlesex until 1965)
• Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire

USA

• Ashford, Alabama
• Ashford Junction, California
• Ashford Mill, California
• Ashford, Connecticut
• Ashford, New York
• Ashford, Texas (also known as Satsuma)
• Ashford, Washington
• Ashford, Wisconsin, a town
  • Ashford (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Ashford, Richland County, Wisconsin, a ghost town
• Ashford University, Clinton, Iowa

Things

• Ashford (cigarette)
• Ashford Handicrafts
• Ashford railway works in Ashford, Kent
• Ashford Steam Centre, a former museum in Ashford, Kent
• ST Ashford, a tugboat

Music

• Ashford & Simpson, singer/songwriter duo
• Leigh Ashford

People

• Ashford (surname)
• Agnes Ashford, evangelist
• Alan Ashford, cricketer
• Annaleigh Ashford, actress
• Bailey Ashford, tropical medicine physician
• Brad Ashford, congressman
• Christopher Ashford, wrestler
• Daisy Ashford, writer
• Daniel F. Ashford, politician
• Evelyn Ashford, athlete
• Frederick Ashford, athlete
• John Ashford, theatre director
• Lindsay Ashford, writer
• Mary Ashford, murder victim
• Matthew Ashford, actor
• Nickolas Ashford, singer
• Rob Ashford, director
• Robert Ashford, law professor
• Rosalind Ashford, singer
• Ryan Ashford, footballer
• Thomas Ashford, military and post man
• Tucker Ashford, baseball player
• Volney Ashford, football coach
• William Ashford, painter

Fictional characters

• Alfred, Alexia and Veronica Ashford in the video game Resident Evil Code: Veronica:
• Angela Ashford, a character in the Resident Evil movie series
• Milly Ashford, a fictional character in Sunrise's anime Code Geass