Derleth expanded the boundaries of the Mythos by including any passing reference to another author's story elements by Lovecraft as part of the genre: just as Lovecraft made passing reference to Clark Ashton Smith's Book of Eibon, Derleth in turn added Smith's Ubbo-Sathla to the Mythos.

In 2003, the weight of crowds travelling to and from the Ashton Court festival and Bristol International Balloon Fiesta put such great strain on the bridge that it was decided to close the bridge to all traffic, including pedestrians, during the whole of the Ashton Court Festival and part of the Balloon Fiesta in 2004.

In the House of Commons of Canada, The Pas is part of the Churchill riding, held by NDP MP Niki Ashton.

** Bathavon Rural District, Long Ashton Rural District, part of Axbridge Rural District and part of Clutton Rural District.

The reversing sidings will form part of this line, which will run out of the north side of the station through Ancoats, Sportcity, Clayton, and along Ashton New Road to Droylsden and Audenshaw.

He is the creation of Clark Ashton Smith and is part of his Hyperborean cycle.

The " Ashton " part of the town's name probably dates from the Anglo-Saxon period, and derives from Old English meaning " settlement by ash trees ".

Ashton became a part of the newly formed Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in 1974.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, the town's borough status was abolished, and Ashton has, since 1 April 1974, formed part of the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.

The district of Woodspring was formed from the municipal boroughs of Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon and Portishead urban districts, Long Ashton Rural District, and part of Axbridge Rural District.

Evidence of this part of its past is gradually disappearing-The Bay Hotel and Cragburn Pavilion and The Ashton, three local landmarks, disappeared towards the end of the last century.

Later, the suffix " in-Makerfield " was added, which relates the name of an old district of which Ashton was a part ; Makerfield derives from the Celtic for a wall or ruin and the Old English word feld, meaning " open land ".

Sir Stewart Duke-Elder founded the Institute of Ophthalmology ( now an integral part of University College London ), and many key individuals, such as Sir Harold Ridley, Charles Schepens, Norman Ashton, Shomi S. Bhattacharya, Allen Foster, Gordon Johnson and Raymond Lund have carried out their research at Moorfields and the Institute.

Nailsea was part of Long Ashton Rural District from 1894 to 1974.

Before 1974, the parish was part of the Long Ashton Rural District.

Ashton graduated with a BSc in Sociology in 1977 from Bedford College, London ( now part of Royal Holloway, University of London ).

Historically a part of Lancashire, Droylsden grew as a mill town around the cotton mills established in the mid-19th century, and the Ashton and Peak Forest canals.

With the opening of the Southern Pennine canals, the Ashton is now also part of the South Pennine Ring ( Rochdale and Huddersfield Narrow ) and the longest Pennine Ring of all ( Outer Pennine Ring-Leeds & Liverpool and Huddersfield Narrow ).

It used to be common to hear reports of unfortunate incidents along the Ashton, such as thefts from boats and intimidating, or at least unnerving, behaviour on the part of some local youths and children.

Long was also part of the loosely associated " Lovecraft Circle " of fantasy writers ( along with Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Clark Ashton Smith, C. M. Eddy, Jr., and Donald Wandrei ) who corresponded regularly with each other and influenced and critiqued each other's works.

Before 1974 that the parish was part of the Long Ashton Rural District.

" In 1996, Rosemary Ashton claimed that the poem was " one of the most famous poems in the language " and claimed the Preface as " the most famous, but probably not the most accurate, preface in literary history.

The eastern terminus of the early medieval linear earthwork Nico Ditch is in Ashton Moss (); it was probably used as an administrative boundary and dates from the 8th or 9th century.

This means that Ashton probably became a settlement some time after the Romans left Britain in the 5th century.

It was about 1535 – 1545, probably at Boulogne that he married the daughter of Christopher Ashton, ( b 1493 ) who was born about 1519 and who bore him a son, Roger Dudley.

The ancient parish of Manchester covered a wider area than today's metropolitan borough ( although not including its full extent ), and was probably established in the Anglo-Saxon period ( there were at that time only two churches in the parish: at Manchester and Ashton under Lyne ).

Woolton Wood would have originally formed part of the Woolton Hall estate and was probably divided off for one of the younger Ashton sons.

The name Ashton derives from Old English and means the " farmstead where the ash-trees grow "; it is a common name and is found locally in Ashton-under-Lyne in Tameside and Ashton upon Mersey in Trafford.

* Haefele, John D. " Far from Time: Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and Arkham House.

Additionally, many of the Conan stories by Howard, de Camp and Carter used geographical place names from Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean Cycle.

An estimated £ 10, 000 was spent on traffic policing, and even more on rerouting traffic from the M60 motorway around Ashton.

Ashton and Lee especially emphasize the Honesty-Humility ( H ) factor as differentiating the HEXACO model from other personality frameworks.

According to the Church of Satan historiography, other LaVey associates from this time include noted Science Fiction and Horror writers Anthony Boucher, August Derleth, Robert Barbour Johnson, Reginald Bretnor, Emil Petaja, Stuart Palmer, Clark Ashton Smith, Forrest J. Ackerman, and Fritz Leiber Jr.

* Babes in Toyland ( 1997 film ), an animated film featuring the voices of Christopher Plummer, Joey Ashton and Lacey Chabert, using only one musical number from the Victor Herbert operetta

Babycham, the first mass-produced branded perry, was developed by Showering from application of the Long Ashton Institute's research, and was formerly produced from authentic perry pears, though is today produced from concentrate, the firm's pear orchards having now been dug up.

Ashton is from the southwest corner of Yellowstone National Park, from Grand Teton National Park, and from the Grand Teton with a clear view.

Ashton is surrounded by farmland but is less than five miles ( 8 km ) from the Targhee National Forest.

It forms a moisture channel that extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Ashton and Yellowstone area.

* Ashton C. Shallenberger, 15th Governor of Nebraska from 1909 to 1911.

The late State Representative Ashton B. Collier, who served from 1956 – 1960 and again from 1964 – 1970, resided in Atlanta.

* Brooke Ashton: A young inexperienced actress from London.

Many of Clark Ashton Smith's short stories feature powerful wizards whose magic enables them to return from the dead.

Whitesnake was a continuation of the musical style introduced in Paice, Ashton & Lord and was inspired in name and cover art from Lord's 1975 album Sarabande.

John Maynard, born 1598, came over from England with his wife Elizabeth ( Ashton ) Maynard around 1635.

Pensacola mayor Ashton Hawyard announced on November 9, 2011 that the airport would change its name from Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport to Pensacola International Airport effective immediately.

* Ashton Anchors, a fictional character from the Star Ocean video game series