One of ten villages and hamlets in England:
"During our drive through Oxfordshire, we stopped briefly at Ashley to admire its historic church spire."
A village in Cambridgeshire.
"The residents of Ashley in Cambridgeshire gathered to celebrate their local festival."
Ashley comes from the Old English name Æsċlēah, which combined "ash tree" and "clearing." The word traveled into modern usage as a place name derived directly from these original elements.