Townsend or Townshend may refer to:

Places

United States

Camp Townsend Camp Smith is a military installation of the New York Army National Guard in Cortlandt Manor, in the Cortlandt, New York, Town of Cortlandt, near Peekskill, New York, about north of New York City, at the northern border of Westchester County, New ...

, National Guard training base in Peekskill, New York *

Townsend, Delaware Townsend is a town in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The population was 2,049 at the 2010 census, an increase of 492.2% from 2000. The center of population of Delaware is located in Townsend. Geography Townsend is located at (39.39 ...

Townsend, Georgia Townsend is an unincorporated community in McIntosh County, Georgia, United States. It lies along State Route 57 northwest of the city of Darien, the county seat. Its elevation is 20 feet (6 m). It has a post office with the ZIP cod ...

Townsend, Massachusetts Townsend is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,127 at the 2020 census. History Townsend was first settled by Europeans in 1676 in an area known by indigenous people of the area as Wistequassuck, ...

, a New England town ** Townsend (CDP), Massachusetts, the main village in the town ** Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts, another village in the town *

Townsend, Montana Townsend is a city in and the county seat of Broadwater County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,787 at the 2020 census. History Lewis and Clark passed through on their expedition in 1805, although the first white settlers, homes ...

Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio Townsend Township is one of the nineteen townships of Huron County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population of the township was 1,571. Geography Located on the northern edge of the county, it borders the following townships: ...

Townsend Township, Sandusky County, Ohio Townsend Township is one of the twelve townships of Sandusky County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, 1,523 people lived in the township. Geography Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships ...

Townsend, Tennessee Townsend is a city in Blount County, Tennessee. The city was chartered in 1921 by persons who were involved with the Little River Railroad and Lumber Company. The population was 550 at the 2020 census. For thousands of years a site of Native Amer ...

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. Townsend was originally established in 1864, and was named Johnson Siding. ...

, a town *

Townsend (community), Wisconsin Townsend is an unincorporated census-designated place located in the town of Townsend, Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States. Townsend is located on Wisconsin Highway 32 southeast of Crandon. Townsend has a post office A post office ...

, an unincorporated community *

Townshend, Vermont Townshend is a New England town, town in Windham County, Vermont, Windham County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for the Townshend family, powerful figures in British politics. The population was 1,291 at the 2020 United States Census, ...

, 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 is a city on the Quimper Peninsula in Jefferson County, Washington, United States. The population was 10,148 at the 2020 United States Census. It is the county seat and only incorporated city of Jefferson County. In addition ...

Port Townsend Bay Port Townsend Bay, also called Port Townsend, is a marine inlet off Admiralty Inlet at the northeastern extreme of the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. It was named Port Townsend by George Vancouver in 1792. The name Port Towns ...

Port Townsend Film Festival The Port Townsend Film Festival a nonprofit organization which presents films and film festivals, supports and nurtures filmmakers, and hosts educational and artistic programming through and about the medium of film. PTFF is a multi-faceted Festi ...

Canada

Townsend Township, Ontario Norfolk County ( ) is a rural single-tier municipality on the north shore of Lake Erie in Southwestern Ontario, Canada with a 2023 population of 73,015. Despite its name, it is no longer a county by definition, as all municipal services are handle ...

* Townsend, Ontario * Townsend Lake, Saskatchewan

United Kingdom

* Townsend, Buckinghamshire *

Townshend, Cornwall Townshend () is a small village near Leedstown and Godolphin and the River Hayle, close to the towns of Penzance, Hayle, Helston and Camborne. Cornish wrestling Cornish wrestling Cornish wrestling () is a form of wrestling that has been est ...

Townsend, Bournemouth Townsend is a area of Bournemouth, Dorset. It is located in the suburbs along the north eastern boundary of the town and is close to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. History Townsend is a housing estate and was built in the mid 1970s. Politics ...

, Dorset * Townsend, Poulshot, Wiltshire *Townsend, Kingswinford, an area at the end of the village of

Kingswinford Kingswinford is a town of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the English West Midlands (county), West Midlands, situated west-southwest of central Dudley. In 2011 the area had a population of 25,191, down from 25,808 at the 2001 Census. T ...

in the West Midlands *Townsend Industrial Estate in

Houghton Regis Houghton Regis is a market town and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Bidwell, Thorn and Sewell. Houghton Regis, together with its contiguous neighbours of Dunsta ...

, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire

New Zealand

Townsend Observatory Townsend Observatory, owned and administered by the University of Canterbury, is part of the Christchurch Arts Centre, Arts Centre of Christchurch, New Zealand and was open on clear Friday evenings. The building collapsed in the February 2011 Ch ...

Australia

Mount Townsend (Snowy Mountains) Mount Townsend is a mountain in the Main Range of the Great Dividing Range, located in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia. With an elevation of above sea level, Mount Townsend is the second-highest peak of mainland Au ...

, the second-highest peak in mainland Australia * the name of

Marburg, Queensland Marburg is a rural town in the City of Ipswich and a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality split between the City of Ipswich and the Somerset Region, both in Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Marburg had a population of 1,0 ...

for a brief period during World War 1

Buildings and structures

Townsend Central Public School The Grand Erie District School Board (GEDSB, Originally known as Haldimand Norfolk Brant (English-language Public) District School Board No. 23 prior to May 1998) is a school board that has legal jurisdiction over Norfolk County, Haldimand Coun ...

, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada *

Townsend Hotel (Birmingham, Michigan) The Townsend Hotel is a luxury boutique hotel located in the Metro Detroit city of Birmingham, Michigan. The hotel contains the Rugby Grille restaurant. In addition, the hotel ballroom can accommodate conferences of up to 500 people. The hotel ar ...

* Townsend Hotel (Casper, Wyoming), a NRHP-listed property *

Townshend International School Townshend International School is a private, Baháʼí Faith, Baháʼí-inspired International school located in Hluboká nad Vltavou in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1992, the school draws some 140 students from approximately 30 countries each ...

, 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) Townsend Building may be: * Townsend Building (Lake Butler, Florida) (aka "the Old Drugstore"), a historic site in the United States * Townsend Building (Oxford), part of the Oxford University Department of Physics in the England * Townsend Buil ...

, several buildings * James W. Townsend House (Orange Springs, Florida) * James W. Townsend House (Lake Butler, Florida)

History

Townshend Acts The Townshend Acts () or Townshend Duties were a series of British acts of Parliament enacted in 1766 and 1767 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to enable administration of the British colonies in America. They are named after Char ...

, 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 In electromagnetism, the Townsend discharge or Townsend avalanche is an ionisation process for gases where free electrons are accelerated by an electric field, collide with gas molecules, and consequently free additional electrons. Those electr ...

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 io ...

Other uses

* Townsend (name) *

Mount Townsend (disambiguation) Mount Townsend may refer to * Mount Townsend (Alberta) in the Canadian Rockies * Mount Townsend (Blue Mountains) in New South Wales, Australia * Mount Townsend (New Zealand) * Mount Townsend (Nunavut) in Nunavut, Canada * Mount Townsend (Papua New ...

* 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 Co ...

, past ferry operator, now named P&O Ferries * '' Townsend v. Sain'', a US Supreme Court case about ''habeas corpus'' and truth serums, decided in 1963 * Townsends, a historical

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