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General
The name Aspley derives from an Old English personal name and the words aespe meaning ‘Aspen‘ and leah meaning 'a wood or clearing'. At the time of the Domesday Book the village was called Aspeleai. In 1276 it was held by Anselm de Gyse who provided the second part of the village name. In the 2001 Census the parish population was 2,185.
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Gipsy Lane
On the 9th September 2008 at 21:30 a man was out running in Aspley Guise when he saw a dark figure one hundred metres ahead of him in Gipsy Lane. The figure was moving slowly so the runner quickly caught up with it until he was just twenty metres away when the figure suddenly vanished. A friend of the runner reported that his uncle had undergone a similar experience on the same stretch of road when he had seen a ghostly woman.
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