Appleton may refer to:
People
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Appleton (surname) Appleton is an Anglo-Saxon locational surname.
* Alistair Appleton, British television presenter
* Charles Appleton (academic) (1841–1879), Oxford don and scholarly entrepreneur
* Charles Appleton (cricketer) (1844–1925), English amateur cric ...
Places
Australia
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Appleton Dock
Appleton Dock is an international shipping facility in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was opened in about 1956 by the Melbourne Harbor Trust, and is named after MHT commissioner William Thomas Appleton (1859-1930), who was a staunch advocate ...
Canada
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Appleton, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Appleton, Ontario
United Kingdom
* Appleton, a deserted medieval village site in the parish of
Flitcham with Appleton, Norfolk, England
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Appleton, Oxfordshire
Appleton is a village in the civil parish of Appleton-with-Eaton, about northwest of Abingdon. Historically in Berkshire, the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire for administrative purposes. The 2011 Census recorded Applet ...
, England
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Appleton Laboratory
The Radio Research Board was formed by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1920. The Radio Research Station (1924 – 31 August 1979) at Ditton Park, Near Slough, Berkshire, England was the UK government research laboratory w ...
, Ditton Park, now Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, England
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Appleton-le-Moors
Appleton-le-Moors is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 183, reducing to 164 in the 2011 census. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshi ...
, Yorkshire, England
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Appleton Thorn
Appleton Thorn is a village in the borough of Warrington in Cheshire, England.
Appleton appeared in the Domesday survey as ''Epeltune'', meaning "the tun where the apples grew".
Bawming the Thorn
Each June, the village hosts the ceremony of " ...
, Warrington, Cheshire, England
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Appleton, Warrington
Appleton is a civil parish and suburb of Warrington, in the Warrington district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
Geography and landmarks
The A49 road runs from neighbouring Stockton Heath up the hill into Appleton and links Warring ...
, Cheshire, England
* Appleton, a northern area of
Widnes
Widnes ( ) is an industrial town in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England, which at the 2011 census had a population of 61,464.
Historically in Lancashire, it is on the northern bank of the River Mersey where the estuary narrows to form t ...
, Cheshire, England
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Appleton railway station
Appleton railway station served a primarily industrial area of Widnes, England. It was located on the southern section of the former St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway.
History
The station was opened by the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway ...
, a closed station in northern Widnes, England
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Appleton Wiske
Appleton Wiske is a small village and civil parish that sits between Northallerton and Yarm in the Vale of York, a flat tract of land that runs between the North Yorkshire Moors to the east, the Yorkshire Dales to the west and the River Tees ...
, North Yorkshire, England
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East Appleton
East Appleton is a hamlet in North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by National parks of the ...
, North Yorkshire, England
United States
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Appleton, Arkansas
Appleton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Griffin Township, Pope County, Arkansas, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 399.
The town contained a post office
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Appleton, Illinois
Appleton is a ghost town in Persifer Township, Knox County, Illinois, United States. Appleton lies approximately one mile north of U.S. Highway 150 and Interstate 74. Knox County Highway 12 runs from north to south through Appleton and the track ...
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Appleton, Maine
Appleton is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. It is about 15 miles inland from Penobscot Bay and coastal towns such as Camden and Rockland, about 30 miles east of the state capital of Augusta, Maine. The population was 1,411 at the 2 ...
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Appleton, Maryland
Appleton is an unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. Appleton is located at the intersection of Maryland Route 273
Maryland Route 273 (MD 273) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its ...
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Appleton Farms Grass Rides
Appleton Farms Grass Rides is a park in Hamilton, Massachusetts owned and maintained by The Trustees of Reservations
The Trustees of Reservations is a non-profit land conservation and historic preservation organization dedicated to preserving ...
, Hamilton, Massachusetts
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Appleton Farms
Appleton Farms is a park in Ipswich, Massachusetts, owned and maintained by The Trustees of Reservations. The property was deeded to the Trustees in 1998. The land was granted to Samuel Appleton, an immigrant from Little Waldingfield
Little Wal ...
, Ipswich, Massachusetts
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Appleton, Minnesota
Appleton is a city in Swift County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 1,412 at the 2010 census. The town is home to a vacant medium-security prison, the Prairie Correctional Facility, which is wholly owned and operated by Corrections ...
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Appleton, New York
Appleton is a hamlet in the town of Newfane in Niagara County, New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the north ...
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Appleton, Ohio Appleton is an unincorporated community in Licking County, in the U.S. state of Ohio
Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United St ...
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Appleton, South Carolina
Appleton is an unincorporated community in Allendale County, in the U.S. state of South Carolina
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, anthem = "Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
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Appleton, Tennessee
Appleton is an unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and ...
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Appleton, Washington
Appleton is an unincorporated community in Klickitat County, Washington, United States. Appleton is west of Klickitat. Appleton has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as acce ...
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Appleton, Wisconsin
Appleton ( mez, Ahkōnemeh)
is a city in Outagamie, Calumet, and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. One of the Fox Cities, it is situated on the Fox River, southwest of Green Bay and north of Milwaukee. Appleton is the co ...
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Old Appleton, Missouri
Old Appleton is a village in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. The population was 73 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Cape Girardeau– Jackson, MO- IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Name
The first settlement was made at O ...
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Appleton City, Missouri
Appleton City is a city in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,032 as of the 2020 census. It is the largest city in St. Clair County.
History
Appleton City was originally called Arlington, and under the latter name w ...
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Appleton Township (disambiguation) Appleton Township may refer to the following townships:
* Appleton Township, Clark County, Kansas
* Appleton Township, Swift County, Minnesota
* Appleton Township, St. Clair County, Missouri
St. Clair County is a county located in the western ...
(several places)
Other uses
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Appleton (crater)
Appleton is a heavily eroded lunar impact crater that lies in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and ...
, a lunar crater
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Appleton (music duo)
Appleton was a Canadian musical duo composed of sisters Natalie and Nicole Appleton. The sisters are better known as members of the girl group All Saints.
Biography
Natalie and Nicole Appleton were born in 1973 and 1974 respectively to their B ...
, a musical duo comprising All Saints members Natalie and Nicole Appleton
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Appleton International Airport
Appleton International Airport , formerly Outagamie County Regional Airport, is an airport located in Greenville, Wisconsin, United States, west of Appleton. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrat ...
, outside Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
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Appleton spotlight
Appleton spotlights, or simply Appletons, were a common feature in early automobiles, up to the "muscle car" era. The bullet-shaped spotlights (usually installed in pairs) included a handle which was mounted through the side window pillar of the ...
, specialized moveable automobile spotlights (used especially for delivery or police vehicles)
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D. Appleton & Company, a former publisher of books and textbooks, based in New York and Boston
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Elizabeth Appleton
''Elizabeth Appleton'' is a novel by John O'Hara written in 1960 and first published in 1963. The story is set mostly in Pennsylvania, and the time of the narrative stretches from the early 1930s to 1950. As in earlier novels, O'Hara minutely c ...
'', a 1963 novel by John O'Hara
* Appleton, Indiana, a fictional town from Jason Robert Brown's musical ''
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See also
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Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
''Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography'' is a six-volume collection of biographies of notable people involved in the history of the New World. Published between 1887 and 1889, its unsigned articles were widely accepted as authoritative f ...
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