Wentworth
Appearance
Wentworth may refer to:
People and fictional characters
[edit]- Wentworth (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
- Wentworth (given name), a list of people
- Patricia Wentworth, pen name of British mystery writer Dora Amy Turnbull (1878–1961)
- Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth (1873–1957), Lady Wentworth, notable Arabian horse breeder
- Wentworth family, in the United States and Australia
Places
[edit]Australia
[edit]- Wentworth, New South Wales, a town
- Division of Wentworth, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in New South Wales
- Electoral district of Wentworth, a former electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
- Wentworth County, a cadastral division of New South Wales
- Wentworth Shire, a local government area in the Riverina region of New South Wales
- Wentworth Gaol, a former prison in New South Wales
- Wentworth Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Canada
[edit]- Wentworth, Calgary, a community in Calgary, Alberta
- Ski Wentworth, a ski hill in Wentworth, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Wentworth, Nova Scotia, a rural community
- Wentworth, Quebec, a township municipality
- Wentworth County, Ontario, a defunct county
- Wentworth (electoral district), a former riding in the Canadian House of Commons
- Wentworth (provincial electoral district), a former riding in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
South Africa
[edit]- Wentworth, KwaZulu-Natal, a township of Durban
United Kingdom
[edit]- Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, a village
- Wentworth Castle, former seat of the Earls of Strafford, at Stainborough, South Yorkshire, England
- Wentworth Estate, a private estate of large houses in Runnymede, Surrey
- Wentworth, South Yorkshire, a village and civil parish
- Wentworth (UK Parliament constituency), an electoral district in South Yorkshire
United States
[edit]- Wentworth, Missouri, a village
- Wentworth, New Hampshire, a town
- Wentworth, North Carolina, a town
- Wentworth, South Dakota, a village
- Wentworth, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Hotels
[edit]- Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, originally the Wentworth Hotel, a heritage-listed luxury five-star hotel in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Wentworth by the Sea, formerly the Hotel Wentworth, a historic hotel in New Castle, New Hampshire, United States
- Wentworth Mansion, Charleston, South Carolina, United States, a historic hotel
Ships
[edit]- Wentworth, a British cargo ship built in 1919 and sunk in 1943
- HMCS Wentworth, a Canadian frigate launched in 1943 and scrapped in 1947
Television
[edit]- Wentworth (TV series), an Australian drama series, a reimagining of Prisoner (see below)
- Wentworth Detention Centre, in the Australian television series Prisoner
Schools
[edit]- Wentworth College, York, a college of the University of York
- Wentworth Institute of Technology, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Wentworth Military Academy and College, a former boarding school and college in Lexington, Missouri, United States
Other uses
[edit]- Baron Wentworth, a title in the Peerage of England
- Wentworth baronets, five titles, all extinct, four in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain
- J.G. Wentworth, a financial services firm
- Wentworth Invitation, a former men's tennis tournament
- Wentworth Club, a golf club played at the Outing Lawn Tennis Club, Hotel Wentworth
- Wentworth Street, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Wentworth station, a former rapid transit station in Chicago, Illinois, United States
See also
[edit]- Wentworth letter, a letter by Joseph Smith, Jr. to the editor of Chicago Democrat explaining the message of the LDS Church
- Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, a group of Australian scientists, economists, and business people with conservation interests
- Wentworth scale, a scale for the grain size of sedimentary materials
- Wentworth Woodhouse, a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, and the largest private house in the UK