Albion (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Albion is an archaic and poetic name for the island of Great Britain.
Albion may also refer to:
Businesses
- Albion Co., Ltd., a Japanese cosmetics manufacturer and distributor
- Albion Motors, a vehicle manufacturer based in Glasgow, Scotland 1899–1980
- Albion Swords, a company based in New Glarus, Wisconsin, manufacturing European sword replicas
- Albion, a brand of agricultural machinery by David Brown Ltd.
- Albion Shipping Company, a 19th-century shipping company of P Henderson & Company
- Albion Yard, a Charles Hill & Sons shipbuilding yard in Bristol, England, 1848–1977
Gaming
- Albion (video game), a 1995 game and its fictional setting
- Albion Online, a medieval fantasy MMORPG released in 2017
- Albion, the fictional setting of Fable (video game series)
- Albion, a fictional place in Destroy All Humans! 2
- Albion, a fictional realm in the Dark Age of Camelot
- Albion, a fictional nation of Warhammer Fantasy
- Albion, a series of competitive Super Smash Bros. tournaments based in Great Britain
Literature
- Albion (Blake), a character in the poetry of William Blake
- Albion (novel series), a trilogy of historical novels by Patrick McCormack
- Albion (comics), a 2005 comic-book limited series
- Albion (High School DxD), a character in High School DxD
- Albion, a Marvel Comics character and X-Men villain in the New Excalibur series
- Albion, a setting in The Familiar of Zero Japanese light novels by Noboru Yamaguchi
- Spire Albion, a setting in The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher
Music
- The Albion Band, a former English folk band formed in 1972 by Ashley Hutchings
- Ferry Corsten or Albion, electronic music producer/DJ
- Albion (album), a 2014 album by Ten
- "Albion" (song), a 2005 song by Babyshambles
- "Albion", a piece for brass band by Jan Van der Roost
Places
Antarctica
- Mount Albion, part of the Athos Range, Mac. Robertson Land
Australia
- Albion, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane
- Albion, Queensland (Richmond Shire), a locality
- Albion, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
- Albion Park, New South Wales
Canada
- Albion, British Columbia, a neighbourhood of Maple Ridge
- Albion Falls, Ontario, a waterfall
- Albion Township, Ontario, in the town of Caledon, in the Greater Toronto Area
Guyana
- Albion, Guyana, a town
Mauritius
- Albion, a village in Rivière Noire District, Mauritius
United States
- Albion, California, a census-designated place
- Albion River, California
- Albion, Idaho, a city
- Albion, Illinois, a city
- Albion Precinct, Edwards County, Illinois, a defunct precinct
- Albion, Indiana, a town
- Albion, Scott County, Indiana
- Albion, Iowa, a city
- Albion, Kansas, a ghost town
- Albion, Maine, a town
- Albion, Michigan, a city
- Albion, an early name in the history of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Albion, Nebraska, a city
- Albion, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
- Albion (town), Orleans County, New York
- Albion (village), New York, most of which is in the town above
- Albion, Oswego County, New York, a town
- Albion, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
- Albion, Ohio, an unincorporated community
- Albion, Oklahoma, a town
- Albion, Pennsylvania, a borough
- Albion, Rhode Island, a village and historic district in Lincoln
- Albion (Winnsboro, South Carolina), a plantation home on the National Register of Historic Places
- Albion, Texas, an unincorporated community
- Albion, Washington, a town
- Albion, Dane County, Wisconsin, a town
- Albion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Albion, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town
- Albion, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, a town
Schools
- Albion College, a liberal arts college in Albion, Michigan, U.S.
- Albion State Normal School, a former public institution of higher learning in Albion, Idaho, U.S.
- The Albion Academy, a coeducational secondary school in Pendleton, Salford, England
Sports teams
UK
- Albion Rovers F.C., a Scottish Football League team from the North Lanarkshire town of Coatbridge
- Albion Rovers F.C. (Newport), a Welsh football team from the city of Newport
- Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., an English professional football club based in the city of Brighton & Hove, Sussex
- Burton Albion F.C., a professional English association football club based in the town of Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire
- Forfar Albion F.C., a Scottish football club based in Forfar, Angus
- Ossett Albion A.F.C., an English football team in the Northern Premier League Division One North, based in Ossett, West Yorkshire
- Plymouth Albion R.F.C., a rugby union club who play in Plymouth, England
- Shepshed Albion F.C., a defunct English football club also known as Shepshed Charterhouse from 1975 to 1992
- Stirling Albion F.C., a Scottish football club currently playing in the Scottish First Division
- Tadcaster Albion A.F.C., an English football club based in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire
- West Bromwich Albion F.C., an English professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands
- Witton Albion F.C., an English football team in the Northern Premier League Division One North based in Northwich, Cheshire
Elsewhere
- Albion Football Club (WRFL), an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Albion
- Albion Cricket Club (Dunedin), a cricket club based in Dunedin, New Zealand
- Albion F.C., a football club based in Montevideo, Uruguay
Ships
- Albion (1762 EIC ship), a ship of the East India Company
- Albion (1783 ship), a slave-tradeing ship
- Albion (1787 EIC ship), a ship of the East India Company
- Albion (1792 ship)
- Albion (1798 whaler)
- Albion (1800 ship)
- Albion (1800 Whitehaven ship)
- Albion (1813 ship), a convict-transport ship
- Albion (1814 ship)
- Albion (1819 ship), of the Black Ball Line wrecked off the coast of Ireland, near Kinsale, in 1822
- Albion (steamboat), a steamboat on Puget Sound from 1898 to 1924
- Albion (wherry), an 1898 trading vessel
- Hired armed cutter Albion
- HMS Albion (1763), a 74-gun third-rate
- HMS Albion (1802), a 74-gun third rate
- HMS Albion (1842), a 90-gun second rate
- HMS Albion (1898), a Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleship
- HMS Albion (R07), a Centaur-class aircraft carrier launched in 1947
- HMS Albion (L14), an Albion-class Landing Platform Dock ship launched in 2001
Other uses
- Albion (given name), a given name (and list of people with the name)
- Albion (journal), a historical journal focusing on British history
- (15760) Albion, a minor planet
- Albion Street, Surry Hills, a street in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Operation Albion, a 1917 German operation to occupy the West Estonian Archipelago
- Albion Colliery, a former coal mine in Cilfynydd, Wales
- Albion Correctional Facility, a women's prison in Albion, New York, U.S.
- State Correctional Institution – Albion, a prison in Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Alebion or Albion, a son of Poseidon in Greek mythology
- Albion Ferry, a former ferry route near Vancouver, Canada.
- Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, a 2002 non-fiction work by Peter Ackroyd
- Albion, an equatorium constructed by Richard of Wallingford in 1326
- Albion, a fictional sword in Robin of Sherwood
- Albion, a fictional gang in Captain Earth
People with the surname
- Mark Albion (born 1951), American writer
See also
- Albion High School (disambiguation)
- Albion Market, a short-lived British soap opera
- Albion Road (disambiguation)
- Albion railway station (disambiguation)
- Albion Township (disambiguation)
- Albiones, a pre-Roman Celtic tribe of the Iberian Peninsula
- Blue Albion, a breed of cattle
- HMS Albion, a list of ships
- List of ships named Albion
- New Albion (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Albion
- All pages with titles beginning with Albion