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Places

United Kingdom

Stow, Lincolnshire Stow (or, archaically, Stow-in-Lindsey) is a village and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is north-west of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Lincoln and south-east of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Gainsborough, ...

or Stow-in-Lindsey, a village *

Stow of Wedale Stow of Wedale, or more often Stow, is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland (historically in Midlothian), north of Galashiels. In the 2011 Census the population was 718. It is served by Stow railway station. The name The name St ...

or Stow, Scottish Borders, a village *

Stow-on-the-Wold Stow-on-the-Wold is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, on top of an 800-foot (244 m) hill at the junction of main roads through the Cotswolds, including the Fosse Way (A429), which is of Roman ...

, Gloucestershire, a small town *

Stow, Shropshire Stowe or Stow is a small village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England. The parish has a border with Wales and the Welsh town of Knighton is less than two miles to the southwest of the village; a very small part of the town (including ...

or Stowe, a village *

Stow cum Quy Stow cum Quy , commonly referred to as Quy, is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Situated around north east of Cambridge lying between the Burwell Road (B1102) and the medieval Cambridge to Newmarket road (B1303, formerly ...

, a parish near Cambridge *

Stow Bardolph Stow Bardolph, sometimes simply referred to as Stow, is an estate and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, lying between King's Lynn and Downham Market on the A10. It covers an area of and had a population of 1,014 in 421 househol ...

, Norfolk, an estate and parish * Stow Hundred, a former hundred of Suffolk *

West Stow West Stow is a small village and civil parish in West Suffolk, England. The village lies north of Bury St. Edmunds, south of Mildenhall and Thetford and west of the villages of Culford and Ingham in the area known as the Breckland. This ...

, a village and parish in Suffolk

Informally called "Stow"

Stowmarket Stowmarket ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England,OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton A2 edition. Publishing Date:2008. o ...

, a town in Suffolk *

Walthamstow Walthamstow ( or ) is a town within the London Borough of Waltham Forest in east London. The town borders Chingford to the north, Snaresbrook and South Woodford to the east, Leyton and Leytonstone to the south, and Tottenham to the west. At ...

, an area in northeast London

United States

Stow, Maine Stow is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 393 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water. ...

, a town *

Stow, Massachusetts Stow is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The town is located west of Boston, in the MetroWest region of Massachusetts. The population was 7,174 at the 2020 census. Stow was officially incorporated in 1683 with an are ...

, a town *

Stow, New York Stow is a hamlet in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The community is located along the western shore of Chautauqua Lake; a ferry connects it to Bemus Point on the eastern shore. Stow has a post office A post office is a public f ...

, a hamlet *

Stow, Ohio Stow is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 34,483 at the 2020 census. It is a suburban community within the Akron metropolitan area. History Stow is named for Joshua Stow, its original proprietor. Joshua Stow w ...

, a city * Stow Creek (New Jersey), a tributary of Delaware Bay *

Stow Lake Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond and Sunset districts on the West Side of San Francisco, California, United States. It is the largest urban park in the city, containing , and the third-most visited urban park in the Unit ...

, former name of Blue Heron Lake in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California

Elsewhere

Hundred of Stow The Hundred of Stow is the cadastral unit of hundred on the northern Adelaide Plains. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Stanley. It was named in 1867 by Governor Dominick Daly after Randolph Isham Stow (1828–1878), twice Attorney-G ...

, a cadastral unit of South Australia

People

Stow (surname) Stow is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Alexander W. Stow (1805–54), American jurist *Augustine Stow (1833–1903), South Australian politician *Baron Stow, (1801–1869), American Baptist minister, writer and editor *David Stow ...

Stow Wengenroth Stow Wengenroth (1906–1978) was an American artist and lithographer, born in 1906 in Brooklyn, New York. Wengenroth was once called "America's greatest living artist working in black and white" by the American realist painter Andrew Wyeth, and h ...

(1906–1978), American artist and lithographer

Other uses

Stow College Stow College was a college in Glasgow in Scotland. History The college was named after David Stow, whose primary teaching seminary was founded close to the college at Dundasvale. The first purpose-built Further Education college in Glasgow, i ...

, Glasgow, Scotland *

Stow Fair, Lincolnshire Stow Fair was an English medieval fair inaugurated in 1233 and held at Stow Green Hill in Lincolnshire. The Prior of Sempringham was granted permission in 1268 to hold this annual fair, from 23 to 25 June, confirming an earlier charter. The fa ...

, England, a lost medieval fair *

Walthamstow Stadium Walthamstow Stadium was a Greyhound racing in the United Kingdom, greyhound racing track in the London Borough of Waltham Forest in east London.BBC News - Walthamstow race track to close' It was regarded as the leading greyhound racing stadium ...

or The Stow, a former greyhound track in East London *

GNU Stow A number of notable software packages were developed for, or are maintained by, the Free Software Foundation as part of the GNU Project. General aspects of GNU packages Summarising the situation in 2013, Richard Stallman identified nine aspects w ...

, software for managing the installation of software packages