Granby may refer to:
Places
Canada
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Port Granby, Ontario
Port Granby is a dispersed rural community in the municipality of Clarington, Regional Municipality of Durham in Ontario, Canada. The community is on Lake Ontario at the mouth of Port Granby Creek, and lies at an elevation of .
History
The area ...
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Granby, Quebec
Granby is a town in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 69,025. Granby is the seat of La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality. It is the second most populated city in Estrie after ...
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Granby (electoral district), a Quebec electoral district whose territory is identical to that of the city
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Challenger de Granby
The Championnats de Granby, currently sponsored as Championnats Banque Nationale de Granby, is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour ...
, a tennis tournament
United States
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Granby, Connecticut
Granby is a town in far northern Hartford County, Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New Y ...
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Granby, Colorado
The Town of Granby is the Statutory Town that is the most populous municipality in Grand County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 2,079 at the 2020 United States Census. Granby is situated along U.S. Highway 40 in the Middle P ...
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Granby, Massachusetts
Granby is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,110 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The census-designated place of Granby corresponds to th ...
, a New England town
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Granby (CDP), Massachusetts, the main village in the town
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Granby, Missouri
Granby is a city in Newton County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,134 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
A post office called Granby has been in operation since 1856. The c ...
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Granby, New York
Granby is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 6,821 at the 2010 census.
The Town of Granby is in the southwest corner of the county.
History
The town was first settled ''circa'' 1792. Granby was created in 181 ...
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Granby, South Carolina
Granby was the first European settlement in the area of present-day Columbia in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Settlement began around 1718 with the establishment of a trading post by the British on the Congaree River. Many small farms were se ...
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Granby, Vermont
Granby is a town in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for the Marquis of Granby. The population was 81 at the 2020 census. Granby is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area. Granby was one of the ...
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Granby Street
U.S. Route 460 (US 460) in Virginia runs west-east through the southern part of the Commonwealth. The road has two separate pieces in Virginia, joined by a relatively short section in West Virginia. Most of US 460 is a four-lane divided high ...
, a historic commercial corridor in Norfolk, Virginia
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Granby Township (disambiguation)
Elsewhere
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Granby crater
Granby is an impact crater in Östergötland, Sweden, located to the southeast of Vadstena. It is estimated to have formed about 470 million years ago (Middle Ordovician
The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and System (geology), system, the s ...
, a meteor crater in Sweden
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Granby, Nottinghamshire
Granby is a small village in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies in the Vale of Belvoir.
Toponymy
The place-name Granby seems to contain an Old Norse personal name, ''Gráni '' and ''bȳ'' (Old Norse), a farmstead or vi ...
, England
Schools
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Granby High School
Granby High School (originally Granby Street High School) is a public high school in Norfolk, Virginia. The school is part of the Norfolk Public Schools system. It is the only high school in the school division that offers an Internationa ...
, Norfolk, Virginia
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Granby Memorial High School
Granby Memorial High School is a public high school in Granby, Connecticut. It was founded in 1957 to accommodate the town's growing population. The school is commonly known as "Home of the Bears" and is a member of the NCCC Athletic Conference, w ...
, Granby, Connecticut
*Granby Junior Senior High School, Granby, Massachusetts
Other
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2004 Granby, Colorado, bulldozer rampage
Marvin John Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was an American automobile muffler repair shop owner who, following a dispute with town officials, demolished numerous buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado, on June 4, ...
*The Marquess of Granby (see
Duke of Rutland
Duke of Rutland is a title in the Peerage of England, named after Rutland, a county in the East Midlands of England. Earldoms named after Rutland have been created three times; the ninth earl of the third creation was made duke in 1703, in who ...
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Operation Granby
Operation Granby, commonly abbreviated Op Granby, was the code name given to the British military operations during the 1991 Gulf War. 53,462 members of the British Armed Forces were deployed during the conflict. The total cost of operations wa ...
, the UK codename for its military operation in the Gulf War
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John Manners, Marquess of Granby
Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General John Manners, Marquess of Granby, (2 January 1721 – 18 October 1770) was a Kingdom of Great Britain, British soldier and the eldest son of the John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, 3rd Duk ...
, the British commander at the Battle of Minden
*''Granby'' (novel), by
Thomas Henry Lister
Thomas Henry Lister (1800 – 5 June 1842) was an English novelist and biographer, and served as Registrar General in the British civil service. He was an early exponent of the silver fork novel as a genre and also presaged "futuristic" writing i ...
, published in 1826
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Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company, Limited
Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Co. was established by charter to operate in the Boundary region of southern British Columbia. Primarily involved in the mining and smelting of copper, the conglomerate became a publicly traded compan ...
a Canadian mining and smelting company
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Granby roll
The Granby roll is a wrestling reversal named for Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk ( ) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1705, it had a population of 238,005 at the 20 ...
, an amateur wrestling technique
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Granby Runestone
The Granby Runestone (Swedish: ''Granbyhällen''), designated as U 337 under the Rundata catalog, is one of the longest Viking Age runic inscriptions located in Uppland, Sweden.
Description
The Granby Runestone has a runic inscription carved o ...
located in Sweden
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Granby (typeface)
Granby is a sans-serif typeface designed and released by the Stephenson Blake type foundry of Sheffield from 1930.
Granby is influenced by a contemporary British sans-serif design, the Johnston typeface or Railway Alphabet (1916), the propriet ...
, a font family by Stephenson Blake
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