is name - Astley's Ride(s), Astley's Flag and more common, Astley's Hornpipe. Astley's Ride appears as the first tune in the music manuscript book of poet John Clare.
Astley's Circus is featured prominently in Tracy Chevalier's novel Burning Bright.
In 1992 the British magician illusionist Andrew Van Buren Commissioned a life size statue to be made of Philip Astley. Andrew is also the leading light in the Philip Astley Project - creating & uniting a series of events to celebrate the 250th anniversary, in 2018, of the first modern circus ring.
- The book of days: A miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography, & history, curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character p.474. W. & R. Chambers, 1864
- "The circus comes to the Circus". BBC News. Retrieved December 13, 2014
- Schechter, Joel (2001) The pickle clowns: new American circus comedy p.11. Southern Illinois University Press
- The first circus Victoria and Albert Museum.
- Joe Nickell (2005). "Secrets of the sideshows". p.8. University Press of Kentucky, 2005
- Samuel McKechnie, Popular Entertainments through the Ages. London; Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd., 1931; Explore PA history.com - Historical Markers
- Loxton, Howard (1997). "The golden age of the circus". p.14. Smithmark, 1997
- Charles Dickens (1837). Sketches by 'Boz'. p.266.
- Jane Austen (1833). Emma. p.423.
- The Wallet of Time
- New International Encyclopedia
- Philip Astley (British circus manager) Encyclopædia Britannica.
- Victor L. Leathers (1959). "British entertainers in France" p.29. University of Toronto Press, 1959
- The Book of Days
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). The Newcomes: memoirs of a most respectable family p.156.
- See Folkopedia
- The Philip Astley Project news
|Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's article about Philip Astley.|
- Astley's Natural Magic, or, Physical Amusements Revealed From the McManus-Young Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress