Sydenham may refer to:

Places

Australia

Sydenham, New South Wales Sydenham is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Sydenham is located 8 kilometres south of Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Inner West Council. S ...

, a suburb of Sydney **

Sydenham railway station, Sydney Sydenham railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Illawarra line, serving the Sydney suburb of Sydenham in New South Wales, Australia. It is served by Sydney Trains T3 Bankstown, T4 Illawarra and T8 South services. ...

Sydenham, Victoria Sydenham is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Brimbank local government area. Sydenham recorded a population of 10,578 at the . History Sydenham Pos ...

, a suburb of Melbourne ** Sydenham railway line, the name of the

Sunbury railway line The Sunbury railway line is a suburban electric railway in Melbourne, Australia. It has 15 stations, in Myki ticketing Zones 1 and 2. It is the electrified section of the Bendigo railway within metropolitan Melbourne. Prior to the line extens ...

, Melbourne until 2012 **

Watergardens railway station Watergardens railway station is located on the Sunbury line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the western Melbourne suburb of Sydenham, and it opened on 26 January 2002.

, formerly called Sydenham

Canada

Sydenham, Frontenac County, Ontario Sydenham, named after Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham, Lord Sydenham, is a community in Frontenac County, Ontario, Frontenac County, located in the municipality of South Frontenac, Ontario, South Frontenac. It is situated at the west ...

* Sydenham Ward, a district within the city of Kingston, Ontario * Sydenham, Grey County, Ontario, a former township within Meaford *

Owen Sound Owen Sound ( 2021 Census population 21,612) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The county seat of Grey County, it is located at the mouths of the Pottawatomi and Sydenham Rivers on an inlet of Georgian Bay. The primary tourist attract ...

, Ontario, formerly called Sydenham *

Sydenham River (Lake Huron) The Sydenham River is a river in Grey County in southern Ontario. The river flows north from a source near Williamsford, drops over the Niagara Escarpment at Inglis Falls and empties into Owen Sound harbour on Georgian Bay. It was named after Lo ...

, which empties into Georgian Bay on Lake Huron, Ontario *

Sydenham River (Lake Saint Clair) The Sydenham River is a river in Chatham-Kent, Lambton County and Middlesex County in southwestern Ontario, Canada, flowing southwest from its source west of London, Ontario and emptying into Lake Saint Clair. The length of the river is and it ...

, which empties into Lake Saint Clair, Ontario

India

Sydenham College Sydenham College of Economics is a college located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is affiliated to the Dr. Homi Bhabha State University. The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in management. It was awarded a re-accreditat ...

, Mumbai

New Zealand

Sydenham, New Zealand Sydenham is an inner suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, two kilometres south of the city centre, on and around the city's main street, Colombo Street. It is a residential, retail and light industrial suburb. History While the Sydenham area ...

, a suburb of Christchurch **

Sydenham (New Zealand electorate) Sydenham was a New Zealand parliamentary New Zealand electorates, electorate, from 1881 to 1890 and again from 1946 to 1996. It had notable politicians representing it like Mabel Howard (the first female cabinet minister in New Zealand), Norman K ...

, a former Christchurch electorate

South Africa

* Sydenham, Durban, an inner city suburb of Durban, South Africa *

Sydenham, Gauteng Sydenham is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The suburb is surrounded by the area of Orchards, Orange Grove and other smaller suburbs. History The suburb was ...

, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa * Sydenham, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on route R75

United Kingdom

London

Sydenham, London Sydenham () is a district of south-east London, England, which is shared between the London boroughs of London Borough of Lewisham, Lewisham, London Borough of Bromley, Bromley and London Borough of Southwark, Southwark. Prior to the creation of ...

Sydenham railway station (London) Sydenham (London) is a railway station in Sydenham in the London Borough of Lewisham, South London. Originally opened in 1839, the station is located on the former Croydon Canal, which is now a branch of the Brighton Main Line, often known as t ...

Sydenham Hill Sydenham Hill forms part of a longer ridge and is an affluent locality in southeast London. It is also the name of a road which runs along the northeastern part of the ridge, demarcating the London Boroughs of Southwark, Bromley, and Lewisham ...

Sydenham Hill railway station Sydenham Hill railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving Sydenham Hill, the Kingswood Estate, and Upper Sydenham, in south London. It is down the line from and is situated between and . The station and all trains that cal ...

Lower Sydenham railway station Lower Sydenham railway station is located on the boundary of the London Borough of Bromley and the London Borough of Lewisham in south-east London. It is measured from . The station serves the localities of Lower Sydenham and Southend. Served ...

Sydenham High School Sydenham High School is an independent school for 4- to 18-year-old girls located in London, England. Sydenham High School was founded by the Girls’ Public Day School Trust in 1887. Since then, the original school roll of 20 pupils has grown ...

, a private school for girls **

Sydenham School Sydenham School (known as Sydenham Girls by locals) is a comprehensive girls' school located on Dartmouth Road ( A2216) in Sydenham, London. History The school was founded in 1917 as a girls' grammar school, known as Sydenham County Grammar Sch ...

, a state school for girls

Belfast

Sydenham, Belfast Victoria was one of the nine district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1985 to 2014, when it was mostly replaced by the Ormiston district. Located in the east of the city, the district elected seven members to Belfast C ...

, a suburb and electoral ward of East Belfast *

Sydenham railway station (Belfast) Sydenham railway station is located in the townland of Ballymisert in east Belfast, and is within walking distance of Belfast City Airport and Victoria Park Victoria Park may refer to: Places Australia * Victoria Park Nature Reserve, a prot ...

Other places in UK

Sydenham, Oxfordshire Sydenham is a village and civil parish about southeast of Thame in Oxfordshire. To the south the parish is bounded by the ancient Lower Icknield Way, and on its other sides largely by brooks that merge as Cuttle Brook, a tributary of the River ...

, near Thame *

Sydenham, Somerset Sydenham House, the manor house of the ancient manor of Sydenham in the parish of Wembdon, Somerset, England, is a grade II listed building, constructed in the early 16th century and refronted and rebuilt after 1613. In 1937, British Cellophan ...

, an area of Bridgwater, Somerset *

Sydenham, Leamington Spa Sydenham is an eastern suburb of the town of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. Prior to the 1960s the area was rural, with only agricultural buildings and a small water mill existing. Sydenham as a name is a corruption of ''side'' meaning "w ...

, a suburb of Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire *

Sydenham Damerel Sydenham Damerel, previously South Sydenham, is a village, parish and former manor in Devon, situated 4 miles north-west of Tavistock. The village lies 1 mile east of the River Tamar which forms the border of Devon with Cornwall, and which als ...

, Devon *

Sydenham House, Devon Sydenham House (anciently Sidelham, Sidraham, etc.) in the parish of Marystow in Devon, England, is a seventeenth-century manor house. The Grade I listed building is situated about thirteen miles south-west of Okehampton, on a estate. It was b ...

, the seat built by Sir Thomas Wise in Marystow parish, Devon

United States

Sydenham Hospital for Communicable Diseases Sydenham Hospital for Communicable Diseases, also known as Montebello State Hospital or Montebello State Chronic Disease Hospital, was a hospital and is a national historic district in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was originally constr ...

, Baltimore * The former

Sydenham Hospital Sydenham Hospital was a healthcare facility in Harlem, Manhattan, New York, which operated between 1892 and 1980. It was located at 124 Street and Manhattan Avenue. History Sydenham opened in 1892, occupying nine houses on 116th Street near 2nd ...

, Harlem, New York City

People

Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham, (13 September 1799 – 19 September 1841) was a British businessman, politician, diplomat and the first Governor General of the united Province of Canada.

* John Sydenham (disambiguation) *

Thomas Sydenham Thomas Sydenham (10 September 1624 – 29 December 1689) was an English physician. He was the author of ''Observationes Medicae'' which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrate ...

, English physician * Colonel William Sydenham, Cromwellian soldier and brother of Thomas *

Sydenham Elnathan Ancona Sydenham Elnathan Ancona (November 20, 1824 – June 20, 1913) was an American educator and politician who served three terms as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1867. Life and career A ...

(1824–1913), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

Medicine

Sydenham's chorea Sydenham's chorea, also known as rheumatic chorea, is a disorder characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements primarily affecting the face, hands and feet. Sydenham's chorea is an autoimmune disease that results from childhood infecti ...

, an infectious disease involving the central nervous system