Aastrup
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Five villages in Denmark
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 are named Aastrup (Åstrup in the post-1948 Danish Orthography
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). The name means "village by a stream" in English.

As in many of the names of small Danish villages and towns, Aastrup is also a surname (though not very common). Aastrup (or Åstrup) as a surname implies ancestry from one of the villages.
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