ASHLEY, a parish in the district of Market-Harborough and county of Northampton; on the verge of the county, at the river Welland, in the vicinity of Medbourne-Bridge r. station, 5 miles ENE of Market-Harborough. Post Town, Market-Harborough under Rugby. Acres, 1,190. Real property, £2,620. Pop., 348. Houses, 82. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £320.* Patron, the Rev. R. T. Pulteney. The church is good; and there are a Baptist chapel, and charities £24.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))