Townsend
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Townsend or Townshend may refer to:
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[edit] People
Main article: Townsend (name)
[edit] Places
[edit] United States of America
- Camp Townsend, National Guard training base in Peekskill, New York
- Townsend, Delaware
- Townsend, Georgia
- Townsend, Massachusetts, a town
- Townsend (CDP), Massachusetts, a census-designated place
- Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts, a village in Townsend, Massachusetts
- Townsend, Montana
- Townsend Township, Ohio (disambiguation)
- Townsend, Tennessee
- Townsend, Wisconsin, a town
- Townsend (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Townshend, Vermont
- Port Townsend, Washington
[edit] Canada
[edit] United Kingdom
- Townshend, Cornwall
- Townsend, Kingswinford, an area at the end of the village of Kingswinford in the West Midlands
- Townsend Industrial Estate in Houghton Regis, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire
[edit] New Zealand
[edit] Australia
- Mount Townsend, the second-highest peak in mainland Australia
[edit] Buildings and structures
- Townsend Central Public School, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
- Townsend High School, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
- Townsend Hotel:
- Townsend Hotel (Birmingham, Michigan), a hotel in Detroit, Michigan
- Townsend Hotel (Casper, Wyoming), a NRHP-listed property in Wyoming
- Townshend International School, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic
- Townsend & Wall, principal department store in downtown St. Joseph, Missouri from 1866 to 1983, now used for apartments
- Townsend Building (also "the Old Drugstore"), a historic site in Lake Butler, Florida, United States
- James W. Townsend House:
[edit] History
- Townshend Acts, proposed by Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that placed a tax on common import goods and which fomented resentment of the British in the Thirteen Colonies
[edit] Science
[edit] Physics
[edit] Biology
- Townsend's Warbler (Dendroica townsendi), a small songbird of the New World warbler family
- Townsend's Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi), a medium-sized thrush, and the solitaire native to North America
- Townsend's Mole (Scapanus townsendii), the largest North American mole
- Townsend's Shearwater (Puffinus auricularis), a rare seabird of the tropics from the family Procellariidae
[edit] Other uses
- Sanford-Townsend Band, a 1970s American rock band
- Townsend and Townsend and Crew, law firm established in 1860, based in San Francisco, California
- Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party
- Simon Townsend's Wonder World, Australian children's television show
- Townsend Thoresen, past ferry operator, now named P&O Ferries
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