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Places in England

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Windrush Square Windrush Square (often referred to by its original name, Brixton Oval) is an open public space in the centre of Brixton, South London, occupying an area in front of the Brixton Tate Library. After changing its name to Tate Gardens, it was again ...
, precinct in south London *
River Windrush The River Windrush is a tributary of the River Thames in central England. It rises near Snowshill in Gloucestershire and flows south east for via Burford and Witney to meet the Thames at Newbridge, River Thames, Newbridge in Oxfordshire. The ri ...
, a river in Gloucestershire *
Windrush, Gloucestershire Windrush is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, approximately five miles southeast of Northleach. It lies in the Cotswolds on the River Windrush, from which it derives its name. The village name is first attested in the Dome ...
, a village in Gloucestershire **
RAF Windrush Royal Air Force Windrush, or more simply RAF Windrush, is a former Royal Air Force satellite station near Windrush, Gloucestershire, England. It was opened in 1940 and closed on 12 July 1945. Initially it was a Relief Landing Ground for RAF Chi ...
, a Royal Air Force station in World War II


Other uses

* HMT ''Empire Windrush'', a ship emblematic of postwar immigration of West Indian people to the UK * "
Windrush generation British African-Caribbean people or British Afro-Caribbean people are an ethnic group in the United Kingdom. They are British citizens or residents of recent Caribbean heritage who further trace much of their ancestry to West and Central Africa. ...
", people of British African-Caribbean heritage *
Windrush line The Windrush line is the service operated by London Overground on the East London line and South London line, running north to south through the East and South areas of London. The East London line was previously a line of the London Undergrou ...
, a railway line in London named for the Windrush generation *
Windrush scandal The Windrush scandal was a British political scandal that began in 2018 concerning people who were wrongly detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation, and in at least 83 cases wrongly deported from the UK by the Home Office. Many o ...
, 2018, in which some of the "Windrush generation" were wrongly deported from Britain as illegal immigrants * ''Windrush'' (TV series), 1998, a BBC TV documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the first immigration disembarkation to Britain from the ship {{Disambiguation, geo