Townsend (pronounced tounʹ-zənd) or Townshend may refer to:

Places

United States

* Camp Townsend, National Guard training base in Peekskill, New York * Townsend, Delaware * Townsend, Georgia * Townsend, Massachusetts, a New England town **

Townsend (CDP), Massachusetts Townsend is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Townsend in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,128 at the 2010 census. Geography Townsend is located at (42.667688, -71.706019). According to the Unit ...

, the main village in the town **

Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts Townsend Harbor is a village in Townsend, Massachusetts, containing Harbor Pond dammed from the Squannacook River. At this location Jonas Spaulding and his brother Waldo started a mill in 1873 that made leatherboard (composed of leather scraps a ...

, another village in the town * Townsend, Montana * Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio * Townsend Township, Sandusky County, Ohio * Townsend, Tennessee *

Townsend, Wisconsin Townsend is a town in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 963 at the 2000 census. The census-designated place of Townsend is located in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total ...

, a town * Townsend (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Townshend, Vermont, a New England town **

Townshend (CDP), Vermont Townshend is the primary village and a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Townshend, Windham County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 199, compared to 1,291 in the entire town. The CDP is in north- ...

, the main village in the town * Port Townsend, Washington ** Port Townsend Bay ** Port Townsend Film Festival

Canada

* Townsend Township, Ontario *

Townsend, Ontario Townsend is a planned community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada, that was founded in 1970 with the expectation it would house the developing industrial region to the south around Nanticoke. Summary While there used to be some commercial ...

Townsend Lake Townsend Lake is a lake in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is located in the east-central part of the province in the Porcupine Hills and Porcupine Provincial Forest. The lake is in the Woody River Block of Porcupine Hills Provinci ...

, Saskatchewan

United Kingdom

* Townsend, Buckinghamshire * Townshend, Cornwall * Townsend, Bournemouth, Dorset * Townsend, Poulshot, Wiltshire *Townsend, Kingswinford, an area at the end of the village of Kingswinford in the West Midlands *Townsend Industrial Estate in Houghton Regis, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire

New Zealand

* Townsend Observatory

Australia

* Mount Townsend, the second-highest peak in mainland Australia * the name of Marburg, Queensland for a brief period during World War 1

Buildings and structures

* Townsend Central Public School, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada * Townsend Hotel (Birmingham, Michigan) * Townsend Hotel (Casper, Wyoming), a NRHP-listed property * Townshend International School, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic * Townsend & Wall, former department store in St. Joseph, Missouri from 1866 to 1983, now used as apartments * Townsend Building (disambiguation), several buildings * James W. Townsend House (Orange Springs, Florida) * James W. Townsend House (Lake Butler, Florida)

History

* Townshend Acts, proposed by Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that placed a tax on common import goods and which fomented resentment of the British in the Thirteen Colonies

Science

* Townsend discharge *

Townsend (unit) The townsend (symbol Td) is a physical unit of the reduced electric field ( ratio E/N), where E is electric field and N is concentration of neutral particles. It is named after John Sealy Townsend, who conducted early research into gas ionisation. ...

Other uses

Townsend (name) Townsend is a topographic surname of Yorkshire and Norfolk origin, indicating residence at the extremity of a city or burgh (from Middle English ''touun'' "village", "hamlet", "stead" + ''ende'' "end".) Popular variants are Townshend (of Norfolk v ...

* Townsend and Townsend and Crew, law firm established in 1860, based in San Francisco, California *

Townsend Thoresen European Ferries Group plc was a company that operated in passenger and freight ferries, harbour operation and property management in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was taken over by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com ...

, past ferry operator, now named P&O Ferries * ''

Townsend v. Sain ''Townsend v. Sain'', 372 U.S. 293 (1963), was a United States Supreme Court case wherein the Court expanded the circumstances in which federal courts should hold evidentiary hearings when presented with petitions for ''habeas corpus'' by state pri ...

'', a US Supreme Court case about ''habeas corpus'' and truth serums, decided in 1963 * {{disambiguation, geo