Holy Wood or Holywood may refer to:
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Holywood, County Down
Holywood ( ) (Irish: ''Ard Mhic Nasca'', meaning 'Height of the Son of Nasca'. Latin: ''Sanctus Boscus'', meaning 'Holy Wood') is a town in the metropolitan area of Belfast in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is a civil parish and townland of 7 ...
, a town and townland in Northern Ireland
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Holywood, County Down (civil parish)
Holywood is a civil parish and townland (of ) in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Castlereagh Lower and covers some areas that are now in Belfast.
Settlements
The civil parish contains the town of Holywo ...
, a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland
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Holywood railway station (Northern Ireland)
Holywood railway station serves Holywood in County Down, Northern Ireland.
History
The Belfast and County Down Railway (B&CDR) opened the line between Queen's Quay, Belfast and Holywood on 2 August 1848. Holywood was a terminus until May 1865, ...
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Holywood, Dumfries and Galloway
Holywood is a village and civil parish in the historical county of Dumfriesshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The village of Holywood was developed in the mid twentieth century. In 1949 eighteen houses were built by the county council and ...
, a village and civil parish in south west Scotland
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Holywood railway station (Scotland)
Holywood railway station was a railway station in Dumfries and Galloway north of Dumfries.
History
The station opened on 15 October 1849 as Killylung. Within a year it was renamed as Holywood. The station is now closed, although the line thro ...
, a former station
Arts
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''Holy Wood'' (novel), an unpublished novel by Marilyn Manson
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''Holy Wood'' (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), a 2000 album by Marilyn Manson
* Holy Wood, a fictional location in the 1990 DiscWorld novel ''
Moving Pictures'' by Terry Pratchett
Other
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Christopher Holywood
Christopher Holywood (1559 – 4 September 1626) was an Irish Jesuit of the Counter Reformation. The origin of the Nag's Head Fable has been traced to him.
Roman Catholic and Irish
His family, which draws its name from Holywood, a village nea ...
(1559–1626), 17th-century Jesuit
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Guaiacum sanctum
''Guaiacum sanctum'', commonly known as holywood, lignum vitae or holywood lignum-vitae, is a species of flowering plant in the creosote bush family, Zygophyllaceae. It is native to tropical America, from Mexico through Central America, Florida, ...
'', commonly known as Holywood or Holywood Lignum-vitae
See also
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Palo santo (disambiguation) Palo santo (Spanish for sacred stick or holy wood etc.) may refer to:
Trees
* Lignum vitae, heartwood of tree species of the genus ''Guaiacum'', native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas
* ''Bulnesia sarmientoi'', a tree species na ...
, (Spanish: ''holy wood'')
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Wood (disambiguation)
Wood is a natural material produced by the growth of plants, mainly trees and shrubs.
Wood may also refer to:
Places United States
* Wood, Iowa, an unincorporated community
* Wood, Missouri, an unincorporated community
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Holy (disambiguation)
Holy is a synonym for sacred.
Holy or Holiness may also refer to:
* Holiness movement, a specific tradition within evangelicalism
* Holiness (style), a pre-nominal honorific used for the leaders of several religious groups
* Holiness code, found ...
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