Hawkesbury or Hawksbury may refer to:
People
*Baron Hawkesbury, or
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool, PC (26 April 172917 December 1808), known as Lord Hawkesbury between 1786 and 1796, was a British statesman. He was the father of Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool.
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(1727-1808), English statesman
Places
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Hawkesbury Island
Hawkesbury Island is an island in British Columbia, Canada. It is located in Douglas Channel, one of the major fjord
In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords ...
, an island in British Columbia, Canada
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Hawkesbury Island, Queensland, an island in Australia
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Hawkesbury River
The Hawkesbury River, or Hawkesbury-Nepean River, is a river located northwest of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Hawkesbury River and its associated main tributary, the Nepean River, almost encircle the metropolitan region of Sydney. ...
, a river in New South Wales, Australia
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Hawkesbury, Ontario
Hawkesbury is a Franco-Ontarian city in United Counties of Prescott and Russell, Prescott-Russell county in Eastern Ontario, Eastern Ontario, Canada. The vast majority of its 10,550 inhabitants are Francophone Canadians, francophone.
The Long-Sa ...
, a town in Ontario, Canada
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City of Hawkesbury
The City of Hawkesbury is a local government area of New South Wales, Australia, part of which is at the fringe of the Sydney metropolitan area, about north-west of the Sydney central business district. Hawkesbury City is named after the Hawkes ...
a local government area in New South Wales, Australia
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Port Hawkesbury
Port Hawkesbury (Scottish Gaelic: ''Baile a' Chlamhain'') is a municipality in southern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. While within the historical county of Inverness, it is not part of the Municipality of Inverness County.
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, a town in Nova Scotia, Canada
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Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire
Hawkesbury is a hamlet consisting of a few cottages around a triangular green. It is also the name of a civil parish in the South Gloucestershire unitary authority in England in which Hawkesbury itself lies, it is located west of Hawkesbury Upto ...
, a village in Gloucestershire, England, UK
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Hawkesbury, Warwickshire, a village in Warwickshire, England, UK
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Hawksbury, New Zealand
Hawksbury, also known as Cherry Farm (and sometimes erroneously as "Evansdale"), is a small residential and industrial area in New Zealand, located beside State Highway 1 between Dunedin and Waikouaiti.Sea Container history. Seadog 1979.
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is a locality near Waikouaiti, New Zealand
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Electoral district of Hawkesbury
Hawkesbury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Robyn Preston of the Liberal Party.
It includes all of the City of Hawkesbury and the far north of both the Hill ...
, a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
;Locations
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Hawkesbury Airport
Hawkesbury Airport is located west of Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada, near the Ottawa River and the border with Quebec.
History
The airport was built in the early 1940s by the Royal Canadian Air Force as part of the British Commonwealth Air T ...
, or ''Hawkesbury (West) Airport'' (TC: CNV4), Ontario, Canada
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Hawkesbury (East) Airport
Hawkesbury (East) Airport , located east of Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada, is one of three small aerodrome between Ottawa and Montreal on the south shore of the Ottawa River.
See also
* List of airports in the Montreal area
The following act ...
(TC: CPG5), Ontario, Canada
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Hawkesbury (Windover Field) Airport
Hawkesbury (Windover Field) Airport, formerly , was located west of Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada. It was one of three small airports between Ottawa and Montreal.
See also
* List of airports in the Montreal area
The following active airports ...
(TC: CPD8), Ontario, Canada
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Port Hawkesbury Airport
Allan J. MacEachen Port Hawkesbury Airport is a registered aerodrome located north of Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada.
A short drive from the "gateway of Cape Breton Island" at the Canso Causeway, the airport is located near several touri ...
(IATA: YPS, ICAO: CYPD), Nova Scotia, Canada
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Hawkesbury Junction
Hawkesbury Junction or Sutton Stop () is a canal junction in England, at the northern limit of the Oxford Canal where it meets the Coventry Canal, near Hawkesbury Village, Warwickshire, between Bedworth and Coventry. The alternative name, Su ...
, a canal junction in England
Ships
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HMCS ''Hawkesbury'', a ship of the Royal Canadian Navy
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HMAS ''Hawkesbury'', two ships of the Royal Australian Navy
Other uses
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Hawkesbury Agricultural College
Hawkesbury Agricultural College was the first agricultural college in New South Wales, Australia, based in Richmond. It operated from 1891 to 1989.
It was established on 10 March 1891, and formally opened by Minister for Mines and Agriculture ...
, New South Wales, Australia (1891-1989)
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UWS Hawkesbury
Western Sydney University, formerly the University of Western Sydney, is an Australian multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, Australia. The university in its current form was founded in 1989 as a federated network u ...
, a former campus of Western Sydney University
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East Hawkesbury
East Hawkesbury is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. Situated on the Ottawa River, its eastern boundary is the border with the province of Quebec.
Communities
The township comprises the village ...
, Ontario, Canada
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Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars
The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars (1794–1816) were a series of conflicts where British forces, including armed settlers and detachments of the British Army in Australia, fought against Indigenous clans inhabiting the Hawkesbury River region and ...
, Australia
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