Waverley may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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''Waverley'' (novel), by Sir Walter Scott
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''Waverley'' Overture, a work by Hector Berlioz inspired by Scott's novel
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Waverley Harrison Waverley may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Waverley'' (novel), by Sir Walter Scott
** ''Waverley'' Overture, a work by Hector Berlioz inspired by Scott's novel
* Waverley Harrison, a character in the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Stre ...
, a character in the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street''
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Bernice Waverley
Bernice Waverley is a fictional character from the Australian drama series '' City Homicide'', played by Noni Hazlehurst. She made her first screen appearance in the pilot episode "In The Hands Of Giants Pt 1", which was broadcast on 28 August 2007 ...
, a character in the Australian series ''City Homicide''
Places
Australia
New South Wales
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Waverley, New South Wales
Waverley is a suburb in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Waverley is located 7 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Waverley Council.
Waverley Counci ...
, a local government area and suburb of Sydney
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Electoral district of Waverley
Waverley was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, originally created in 1894, with the abolition of multi-member constituencies, out of part of Paddington, and named after and including ...
, New South Wales, a former electoral district
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Waverley Cemetery
The Waverley Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery on top of the cliffs at Bronte in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Opened in 1877 and built by R. Watkins (cemetery lodge, 1878) and P. Beddie (cemetery office, 1915 ...
, in the suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales
Queensland
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Waverley, Queensland, a locality in the Boulia Shire
Tasmania
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Waverley, Tasmania, a suburb of Launceston
Victoria
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Waverley Province
Waverley Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1976 to 2006, with members holding alternating eight-year terms. It was a marginal seat for its entire existence, often changin ...
, Victoria, a former electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council
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City of Waverley
The City of Waverley was a local government area about east-southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1857 until 1994.
History
Waverley was first incorporated as the Oa ...
, Victoria, a local government area from 1857 to 1994
Western Australia
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Waverley, Western Australia
Waverley, or Siberia, is a ghost town located between Kalgoorlie and Leonora. It is on the Davyhurst to Ora Banda Road in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia and has formed part of Maduwongga territory.
Two prospectors B ...
, an abandoned goldfields town also known as Siberia
* Waverley, a local name of
Cannington, Western Australia
Cannington is a southern List of Perth suburbs, suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its Local government areas of Western Australia, local government area is the City of Canning.
History
Cannington's name derives from the Canning River (Western ...
, East Cannington and Beckenham
Canada
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Waverley, Nova Scotia
Waverley is a suburban community of the Halifax Regional Municipality, in Nova Scotia, Canada. It has a rich history in gold mining. It lies north of Dartmouth, and south of Fall River.
History
Waverley was first settled by Charles Pillsbury Al ...
, a suburban community in the Halifax Regional Municipality
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Waverley Park (Thunder Bay)
Waverley Park is a public park located in the north end of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It is the second oldest municipal park in Ontario. The park forms the centre of the Waverley Park Heritage Conservation District, a collection of historica ...
, a municipal park in Thunder Bay, Ontario
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Waverley (electoral district)
Waverley is a provincial electoral district (riding) in the Canadian province of Manitoba that came into effect at the 2019 Manitoba general election. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
Created by the decennial provin ...
, an electoral district in Manitoba
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Rural Municipality of Waverley No. 44, Saskatchewan
New Zealand
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Waverley, Otago
Waverley is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It was named after Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley, first novel in a series known as the Waverley Novels, among the most popular and widely read English-language novels of the 19th cen ...
, a suburb of Dunedin
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Waverley, Taranaki
Waverley is a town located in the South Taranaki District in New Zealand. It is 44 km northwest of Whanganui. Patea is 17 km to the west, and Waitōtara is 10 km to the southeast. State Highway 3 and the Marton - New Plymouth ...
, a small town
South Africa
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Waverley, Johannesburg
Waverley is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. A suburb in northern Johannesburg, it is surrounded by Bramley, Highlands North and Savoy Estate. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Waverley is l ...
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Waverley, Bloemfontein
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Waverley, Pretoria
Waverley is a suburb of the city of Pretoria, South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic ...
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Waverley, Mpumalanga
Waverley in Mpumalanga is a small border crossing between South Africa and Eswatini. The Eswatini side of the border post is known as Lundzi Lundzi is a town in western Eswatini. It is located close to the border with South Africa
South Af ...
, a small border crossing between South Africa and Eswatini
United Kingdom
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Waverley, South Yorkshire
Waverley is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in the southeastern part of the county of South Yorkshire, England. It is situated about north of London, from Rotherham town centre and from Sheffield City Centre. The parish ...
, a region of Rotherham, England
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Borough of Waverley
The Borough of Waverley is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. The borough's headquarters are in the town of Godalming; other notable settlements are the towns of Farnham and Haslemere an ...
, a borough in Surrey, England
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Waverley Abbey
Waverley Abbey was the first Cistercian abbey in England, founded in 1128 by William Giffard, the Bishop of Winchester.
Located about southeast of Farnham, Surrey, it is situated on a flood-plain; surrounded by current and previous channels o ...
, after which the borough is named
United States
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Waverly (Marriottsville, Maryland)
Waverly Mansion is a historic home located at Marriottsville in Howard County, Maryland, USA. It was built circa 1756, and is a -story Federal style stone house, covered with stucco, with a hyphen and addition that date to circa 1811. Also on th ...
, also spelled Waverley, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
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Waverley (Morgantown, Maryland)
Waverley is a historic home located near Morgantown, Charles County, Maryland. It is a large two story, five-bay, Flemish-bond brick house, that faces the Potomac River. All interior woodwork is characteristic of the Federal period.
It was list ...
, listed on the NRHP
* Waverley, a neighborhood in
Belmont, Massachusetts
Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It is a western suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, United States; and is part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. At the time of the 2020 U.S. Census, the town's population stood at 27,295 ...
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Waverley (West Point, Mississippi)
Waverley is a mansion, formerly a plantation house and now a historic house museum, in Clay County, Mississippi, ten miles east of West Point. Built in the 1838, it is architecturally unique among Mississippi's antebellum mansions for its enorm ...
, a National Historic Landmark
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Waverley Historic District (Enid, Oklahoma)
The Waverley Historic District is located in Enid, Oklahoma, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) since 2006. It consists of four Waverley additions. The William and Luther Braden farm was the first parcel of ...
, listed on the NRHP
Schools
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Waverley College
, motto_translation = Virtue alone ennobles
, location = 131 Birrell Street
, city = Waverley, New South Wales
, country = Australia
, coordinates =
, type = Independent early learn ...
, a Catholic secondary school for boys in Sydney, Australia
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Waverley Christian College
Waverley Christian College is a co-educational independent Christian school with two campuses - Wantirna South and Narre Warren South. The College offers Christian education to pre-school, primary, and secondary students.
History
Originally est ...
, Melbourne, Australia, an inter-denominational, co-educational independent Christian school
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Waverley School, Birmingham, England, a mixed all-through school
* Waverley School, former name of
Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich
The Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich (formerly Waverley School) is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status in the East Dulwich area of the London Borough of Southwark, England.Waverley Girls' High School
Waverley Girls' High School is a public school for girls located in the suburb of Waverley in Johannesburg, South Africa.
History
Early history
Plans for building the school started back in 1952, and the school was completed in 1953. It fina ...
, Waverley, Johannesburg, South Africa
Transportation
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GWR Waverley Class
The Great Western Railway Waverley Class were 4-4-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work.
The class was introduced into service between February and June 1855, and withdrawn between February 1872 and November 1876. Fr ...
, a class of Great Western Railway broad-gauge steam locomotives, England
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Edinburgh Waverley railway station
Edinburgh Waverley railway station (also known simply as Waverley; gd, Waverley Dhùn Èideann) is the principal railway station serving Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after Glasgow Central. It is the north ...
, the main railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Waverley Route
The Waverley Route was a railway line that ran south from Edinburgh, through Midlothian and the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. The line was built by the North British Railway; the stretch from Edinburgh to Hawick opened in 1849 and the remaind ...
, former railway line in Scotland, later reinstated between Edinburgh and Tweedbank
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Waverley (passenger train), an express train from London St Pancras to Edinburgh Waverley which ceased operating in 1968
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Waverley Bridge
Waverley Bridge is a road bridge in Edinburgh linking Market Street in the Old Town, Edinburgh, Old Town with Princes Street in the New Town, Edinburgh, New Town. The bridge forms part of the roof of Edinburgh Waverley railway station, Edinburgh ...
, a road bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland
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PS ''Waverley'', a paddle steamer based on the River Clyde in Scotland
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Waverley Bus Depot
Waverley Bus Depot is a bus depot in the Sydney suburb of Bondi Junction operated by Transdev John Holland.
History
Waverley Tram Depot opened on 7 September 1902 as a seventeen road depot on the corner of Oxford Street and York Road, Bondi J ...
, in the Sydney, Australia suburb of Bondi Junction
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Waverley Rail Trail, a combined shared-use path for cyclists and pedestrians and on-road bicycle route in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
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Winnipeg Route 80, known locally as Waverley Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Waverley (MBTA station), a transit station in Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
Australian sports
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Waverley Football Club
Waverley Football Club, nicknamed the Panthers, were an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1961 until 1987. Waverley wore red and black as their club colours and was based at Central Res ...
, an Australian rules football club from 1961 until 1987, based in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley
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Waverley Rugby Club
The Waverley Rugby Football and Sporting Club (Waverley RF&SC) was founded in 1971. It is plays in the New South Wales Suburban Rugby Union, the largest rugby union football competition in New South Wales. The club is based in Bondi in the eas ...
, based in Waverley, New South Wales
* Waverley Cricket Club, former longtime name of
Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club
Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club is a cricket club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They are also known as the Eastern Suburbs or latterly Easts Cricket Club and play in the Sydney Grade Cricket
NSW Premier Cricke ...
, a wandering cricket team from the Surrey/Hants area
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Waverley Baseball Club Waverley may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Waverley'' (novel), by Sir Walter Scott
** ''Waverley'' Overture, a work by Hector Berlioz inspired by Scott's novel
* Waverley Harrison, a character in the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Stre ...
, based in Glen Waverley
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Waverley Hockey Club
Waverley Hockey Club is located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and competes in Hockey Victoria field hockey competitions.
Waverley is one of Australia's largest hockey clubs, with 800+ members in male and female, junior, senior and mast ...
, based in the suburbs of Melbourne
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Waverley Park
Waverley Park (also and originally called VFL Park) was an Australian rules football stadium in Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia. For most of its history, its purpose was as a neutral venue and used by all Victorian-based Victorian Football ...
, a disused sporting stadium in Melbourne, formerly used for Australian rules football, now a training venue
Other uses
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Waverley Root
Waverley Lewis Root (April 15, 1903, in Providence, Rhode Island – October 31, 1982 in Paris) was an American journalist and writer. Root authored the classic ''The Food of Italy'' on Italy and its regional cuisines.
Early life and educat ...
(1903-1982), American journalist and writer
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Viscount Waverley, a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom
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Waverley Country Club
The Waverley Country Club is a country club located in Clackamas County, Oregon United States. Chartered in 1896, the club was the second private golf club established west of the Mississippi River.
History
The club was established in April 1896 ...
, Portland, Oregon, United States
* The Waverley pen nib, made by
Macniven and Cameron, a popular 19th-century writing instrument named after the Waverley novels
See also
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Pope-Waverley, early 20th-century automobiles made in Indiana, U.S.
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Waverly (disambiguation)
Waverly may refer to:
Education
;United States
* Waverly Community Schools, a school district located in Lansing, Michigan
* Waverly School District 145, Nebraska
* Waverly Central School District, New York
* Waverly High School (disambiguation) ...
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Wavorly
Wavorly is an American rock band from Tupelo, Mississippi.
History
Wavorly formed in 2001 under the name Freshmen 15, and independently released two albums under this name. The group changed its name after signing to Flicker Records because the ...
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