Lightwood may refer to:

Trees

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Acacia implexa ''Acacia implexa'', commonly known as lightwood or hickory wattle, is a fast-growing Australian tree, the timber of which is used for furniture making. The wood is prized for its finish and strength. The foliage was used to make pulp and dye cl ...

'', Australian tree *

Fatwood Fatwood, also known as "fat lighter", "lighter wood", "rich lighter", "pine knot", "lighter knot", "heart pine", "fat stick" or "lighter'd", is derived from the heartwood of pine trees. The stump (and tap root) that is left in the ground after a ...

, the resinous core of the pine tree, in the Southern United States

Places

United Kingdom

Lightwood, Stoke-on-Trent Lightwood is a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. It is located to the south of Longton Longton may refer to several places: * Longton, Kansas, United States * Longton, Lancashire, United Kingdom * Longton, Staffordshire, United K ...

, Staffordshire * Lightwood, Derbyshire * Lightwood, Ditton Priors, Shropshire * Lightwood, Hinstock, Shropshire * Lightwood, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire * Lightwood Reservoir, in Derbyshire

United States

* Lightwood, Alabama, United States, a place in Elmore County * Lightwood House, plantation house in Virginia

People with the name

Ray Lightwood Raymond Lightwood (1922–2001) was a British medical engineer who developed the first variable rate heart pacemaker, together with Leon Abrams at the University of Birmingham. Ray Lightwood was born in Coventry. He was educated at Birchfield ...

(1922–2001), British medical engineer * Reginald Cyril Lightwood, writing in 1935, namesake of Lightwood–Albright syndrome *

Simon Lightwood Simon Robert Lightwood (born 15 December 1980) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield since the 2022 by-election, following the resignation of Conservative MP, Imran Ahmad Khan, who resigned foll ...

(born 1979/1980), British politician

Fictional characters

* Alec Lightwood and

Isabelle Lightwood This is a list of the main characters from ''The Mortal Instruments'' series by Cassandra Clare, including the novels '' City of Bones'', '' City of Ashes'', '' City of Glass'', ''City of Fallen Angels'', '' City of Lost Souls'', and '' City of ...

, from ''The Mortal Instruments'' novels by Cassandra Clare * Maryse, Max and Robert Lightwood, secondary characters from the same novels

Other uses

* ''Lightwood'', 1939 novel by

Brainard Cheney Brainard Cheney (June 3, 1900 – January 15, 1990) was an American novelist, playwright, speechwriter and essayist from Georgia who was associated with the Southern Agrarians literary movement Cheney's writing career covered four decades. He pu ...

* Lightwood's law, in paediatric medicine * Lightwood Hoard, found near Lightwood, Stoke-on-Trent {{dab, geo, name