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Rossmore may refer to: *Rossmore, Johannesburg, South Africa *Rossmore, West Virginia, United States Australia * Rossmore, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney *Rossmore, Queensland, a neighbourhood in the Gympie Region United Kingdom *Rossmore, a suburb of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire *Rossmore, a townland in Belleek, County Fermanagh *Rossmore, Dorset Rossmore is a suburb of Poole, Dorset. Rossmore is close to Alder Hills, Newtown and Parkstone. Amenities The area is served by the Rossmore Leisure Centre and Rossmore Library. Politics Rossmore is split between the Poole and the Bournemo ...
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Rossmore, Johannesburg
Rossmore is a suburb of Johannesburg, around 5 km northwest of City Hall. It borders Langlaagte to the north and Homestead Park. The name comes from the village of Paarlshoop, the oldest private township on the Witwatersrand. Rossmore covers 1 km2 and borders Westdene on the northwest, Melville on the north, Auckland Park on the east, Brixton on the south, and Hurst Hill on the southwest. The majority of Rossmore consists of the Kingsway Campus Auckland Park of the University of Johannesburg, Helen Joseph Hospital, and Hoërskool Vorentoe. Just east of Chiselhurst Drive and north of the southwestern end of St. Swinthin's and Auckland Avenues, in the latter case very old ones. Rossmore was founded on September 9, 1925, and was laid out on Braamfontein Farm. The suburb is named in honor of Lord Derrick Westenra, 5th Baron Rossmore's only daughter, Dame Mary Bailey, the second wife of the mining magnate, Sir Abe Bailey. In the early years, it had a largely even balanc ...
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Rossmore, West Virginia
Rossmore is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Logan County, West Virginia, United States, along West Virginia Route 44 and Island Creek. Its population was 301 as of the 2010 census. Geography Rossmore is in central Logan County and is bordered to the north by Monaville and to the south by Switzer. WV-44, following Island Creek, leads north (downstream) to Logan, the county seat, and south to U.S. Route 52 at the headwaters of the creek. According to the U.S. Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The Census Bureau is part of the ..., the Rossmore CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.96%, are water. References Census-designated places in Logan County, West Virginia Census-designated places in West Virginia {{LoganCountyWV-geo-stub ...
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Rossmore, New South Wales
Rossmore is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is bound to the east by Kemps Creek, the west by South Creek, the north by Fifteenth Avenue, and the south by Rileys Creek in the southwest and a non natural border from there. The main road through the centre of the suburb is Bringelly Road. History Rossmore was originally known as Cabramatta after the parish of Cabramatta. It was the subject of a novel called ''The Cabramatta Store'' by Mary Theresa Vidal, which is believed to be the first novel published by a woman in Australia. In 1856, the railway line was extended from Granville to Liverpool and a station was established at what is now the modern-day Cabramatta. There was a horse stud in the area called ''Rossmoor Stud'' which is believed to have been named after ''Rossmore Lodge,'' a famous horse stud in Kildare, Ireland. To avoid confusion with the new station of Cabramatta, the old town of Cabramatta became known as Rossmore. Rossmore Po ...
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Rossmore, Queensland
Kilkivan is a town and locality in the Gympie Region of Queensland, Australia. At the , Kilkivan had a population of 713. Geography The town is situated on the Wide Bay Highway, north of the state capital, Brisbane and west of Gympie. One Mile Creek () meanders through the town, east of the Wide Bay Highway. The town lies in the Mary River drainage basin. Rossmore is a neighbourhood within the locality to the south-west of the town of Kilkivan (). History Kilkivan was first inhabited by the Wakka Wakka tribe of the Australian Aboriginal peoples. The town was first settled by Europeans in the 1840s. Queensland’s first gold discovery was at Kilkivan in 1852 and subsequent findings escalated into a gold rush in the 1860s. The town was named for a pastoral run owned by pastoralist John Daniel MacTaggart (1823–1871) after his father's farm name near Drumlemble, Kintyre, Scotland. The nearby Australian 'Glenbarr' property owned by MacTaggart was also named for a nearby S ...
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Ellesmere Port
Ellesmere Port ( ) is a port town in the Cheshire West and Chester borough in Cheshire, England. Ellesmere Port is on the south eastern edge of the Wirral Peninsula, north of Chester, south of Birkenhead, southwest of Runcorn and south of Liverpool. The town had a population of 61,090 in the 2011 census. Ellesmere Port also forms part of the wider Birkenhead urban area, which had a population of 325,264 in 2011. The town was originally established on the River Mersey at the entrance to the Ellesmere Canal. As well as a service sector economy, it has retained large industries including Stanlow oil refinery, a chemical works and the Vauxhall Motors car factory. There are also a number of tourist attractions including the National Waterways Museum, the Blue Planet Aquarium and Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet. History The town of Ellesmere Port was founded at the outlet of the never-completed Ellesmere Canal. The canal (now renamed) was designed and engineered by Wil ...
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Belleek, County Fermanagh
Belleek (Flanagan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 182. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ) is a village and civil parish in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. While the greater part of the village lies within County Fermanagh, part of it crosses the border and the River Erne into County Donegal. It lies in the historic barony of Lurg. It had a population of 904 people in the 2011 Census, and is situated within Fermanagh and Omagh district. July is normally the warmest month in Northern Ireland, and the highest summer temperatures of all occur inland, furthest away from the cooling influence of the Atlantic. A long-standing high temperature record for Northern Ireland (30.8 °C) was recorded at Knockarevan in County Fermanagh on 30 June 1976, which was not surpassed until the heatwave of July 2021 (peaking at 31.4 °C, recorded at Armagh). The village is the most westerly settlement in Northern Ireland and thus the most westerly settlement in the United Kingdom. The ...
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