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Seddon may refer to: People * Seddon (surname) Places Australia * Hundred of Seddon, a cadastral unit in South Australia ** Seddon Conservation Park, a protected area in South Australia ** Seddon, South Australia, a locality * Seddon, Victoria, a suburb New Zealand * Seddon, New Zealand, a town * Seddonville, a locality Other uses * Seddon Atkinson Seddon Atkinson Vehicles Limited, a manufacturer of large goods vehicles based in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, was formed after the acquisition in 1970 of Atkinson Vehicles Limited of Preston by Seddon Diesel Vehicles Limited of Oldh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seddon (surname)
Seddon is an English-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bill Seddon (1901–1993), English footballer * Chris Seddon (born 1983), American Major League baseball pitcher *Frederick Seddon (1870–1912), British murderer * Gareth Seddon (born 1980), English footballer *George Seddon (academic) (1927–2007), Australian academic * George Seddon (cabinetmaker) (1727–1801), English cabinetmaker * Sir Herbert Seddon (1903–1977), British orthopaedic surgeon and nerve researcher *James Seddon (1815–1880), American lawyer and politician *Jimmy Seddon (1895–1971), English footballer *John Seddon, British occupational psychologist * John Seddon (Unitarian) (1719–1769), English Unitarian minister *John Seddon of Warrington (1725–1770), English dissenter minister *John Pollard Seddon (1827–1906), English architect *Ken Seddon (1950–2018), English chemist *Margaret Seddon (1872–1968), American film actress *Margaret Rhea Seddon (born 1947), American phys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Seddon
County of Carnarvon is a cadastral unit located in the Australian state of South Australia which covers the full extent of Kangaroo Island. It was proclaimed in 1874 by Governor Musgrave in response to the demand for agriculture land on Kangaroo Island. Description The County of Carnarvon covers the full extent of Kangaroo Island and “all islands adjacent thereto.” History The County of Carnarvon was gazetted in 1874 in response to the demand for agricultural land on Kangaroo Island. The county was proclaimed by Anthony Musgrave, the ninth Governor of South Australia on 13 August 1874 along with the first of its constituent hundreds, the Hundred of Dudley. The county was named after Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Caernarfon, Wales who served two terms as the British Secretary of State for the Colonies. The following twelve hundreds were proclaimed within the County between the years 1874 and 1960 - Dudley in 1874, Menzies in 1878, Haines in 1883, Cassini in 1884, Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seddon Conservation Park
Seddon Conservation Park is a protected area in South Australia located on Kangaroo Island. It was dedicated in 1971 to protect a representative sample of the lateritic plateau vegetation of the central part of the island. Description The conservation park has an area of and is located in the locality of Seddon about south of the town of Parndana and south-west of Kingscote. The Eleanor River flows through the conservation park. The vegetation is mainly a woodland association of ''Eucalyptus leucoxylon'' and '' E. fasciculosa'', with open shrubland of '' E. cosmophylla'' and '' E. baxteri'' over ''Allocasuarina muelleriana'', '' Xanthorrhoea tateana'' and ''Melaleuca uncinata''. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area. See also * Protected areas of South Australia Protected areas of South Australia consists of protected areas located within South Australia and its immediate onshore waters and which are managed by South Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seddon, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Seddon is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on Kangaroo Island about south-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-west of the municipal seat of Kingscote. Its boundaries were created in March 2002 for the “long established name” which was derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Seddon in which it is located. Seddon is bounded by the Playford Highway and the town of Parndana to the north and by the South Coast Road in part to the south. The principal land use in the locality is primary production with exception to land reserved for conservation purposes as the Seddon Conservation Park and land adjoining the town of Parndana which is zoned for residential and commercial purposes. Seddon is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson and the local government area of the Kangaroo Island Council The Kangaroo Island Council is a local government area in South Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seddon, Victoria
Seddon is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Maribyrnong local government area. Seddon recorded a population of 5,143 at the . Located south of Footscray and north of Yarraville, Seddon was formerly a semi-industrial, working-class suburb. In recent years Seddon has experienced rapid gentrification due to its close proximity to the Melbourne City Centre. History Originally known as ''Belgravia'', Seddon was officially declared a suburb in 1906, named after Richard Seddon, the New Zealand Prime Minister from 1893 to 1906, who resided there before he moved to Bendigo and later to New Zealand. Seddon was, on occasion, considered part of neighbouring Footscray. The original State Bank of Victoria in Charles Street, Seddon used to stamp its Bank Account passbooks as Footscray South Vic. Not unusual, considering Seddon is south of Footscray. However, while central Footscray is one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seddon, New Zealand
Seddon is a small town in Marlborough, New Zealand. It is located south of Blenheim, close to the mouths of the Awatere and Blind Rivers and the Lake Grassmere salt works. Salt and lime are major local industries, and the Awatere Valley is an important part of the Marlborough wine region. The town was named for a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Richard Seddon. Geography Earthquakes Seddon has been close to the epicentres of several significant earthquakes. On the morning of 16 October 1848, Marlborough was struck by a damaging earthquake later estimated to be between magnitude 7.4 and 7.7. The epicentre of this earthquake was 45 km southeast of Seddon. On 23 April 1966, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake with an epicenter in Cook Strait, 40 km east of Seddon was most strongly felt in the town, damaging the chimney on almost every house in town. In July and August 2013 Seddon was closest settlement to the epicentres of a doublet earthquake event. First, in la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seddonville
Seddonville is a lightly populated locality on the West Coast, New Zealand, West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. It is most famous for the historical role it played in New Zealand's coal mining industry. Geography Seddonville is in the isolated north of the West Coast in the foothills of the Glasgow Range, on the southern bank of the Mokihinui River. To the west are Summerlea, New Zealand, Summerlea and Mokihinui on the coast of the Tasman Sea, and to the north is Corbyvale on the road to Karamea. New Zealand State Highway 67, State Highway 67 ends just before reaching Seddonville. In 1911 Seddonville's population was 426, 222 in 1951, 70 in 1976 and in 2013 its 3 Meshblock, meshblocks totalled 53. A rare mollusca, mollusc, ''Powelliphanta lignaria rotella'', is found only in the Seddonville area. It is considered nationally endangered. History Seddonville was named after Prime Minister of New Zealand Richard Seddon. It was established in the late 19th century as a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
