Aston (disambiguation)

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Aston may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Other 4 See also

[edit] Places

England

• Aston, a district of Birmingham
  • Aston University in Birmingham
• In Cheshire:
  • Aston, Vale Royal
  • Aston juxta Mondrum
  • Aston by Budworth
  • Aston by Wrenbury
• Aston, Berkshire
• Aston, Derbyshire
• Aston, Herefordshire
• Aston, Hertfordshire
• Aston, Oxfordshire
• Aston, Shropshire
• Aston, South Yorkshire
• Aston Abbotts, Buckinghamshire
• Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire
• Aston Flamville, Leicestershire
• Aston-on-Trent, Derbyshire
• Ivinghoe Aston, Buckinghamshire
• Little Aston, a district of Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands

Australia

• The Division of Aston, an electoral division in Victoria

United States

• Aston Township, Pennsylvania

France

• Aston, Ariège

Wales

• Aston, Flintshire

[edit] People

• Bill Aston, British racing driver
• Francis William Aston, the chemist who invented the mass spectrograph

[edit] Other

• Aston Broadcast Systems, a British manufacturer of electronic equipment for the broadcast industry, known in particular for their Character Generators
• A synonym for lower thirds, the graphics generated by Character Generators, whether the equipment is made by Aston Broadcast Systems Ltd. or not (a genericized trademark)
• Aston (crater) on the Moon, named for Francis William Aston
• Aston Butterworth, the Aston Formula One Team founded by Bill Aston
• The Aston shell, a replacement for the standard Explorer shell in the Microsoft Windows Operating System
• Aston Martin, a brand of automobile. The Aston part of the brand name comes from the Aston Hill Climb near Aston Clinton
• Aston English School, an English language school in China with over 40 branches
• Aston Villa F.C., an English Premier League football club based in Birmingham, West Midlands
• The Aston process, which is a process to produce wrought iron

[edit] See also

• Ashton