Granville

Granville

There are a number of uses of the term Granville.

See also "Grandville".

Earls Granville

* Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1667-1744)
* John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690-1763)
* Robert Carteret, 3rd Earl Granville (1721-1776)
* Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville (1773-1846)
* Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891)
* Granville George Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville (1872-1939)
* William Spencer Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville (1880-1953)
* Granville James Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville (1918-1996)
* Granville George Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville (b. 1959)

People called Granville

* Andrew Granville, British mathematician
* Arthur Granville (1912 – 1987), Welsh footballer
* Danny Granville, English footballer
* John Granville (1974 – 2008), a diplomat with the United States Agency for International Development
* William Anthony Granville, the sixth president of Gettysburg College from 1910 until 1923
* Granville Hicks, American literary figure
* Granville Woods, 19th century inventor

Locations named Granville

Australia

* Granville, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, and site of the Granville railway disaster
**Electoral district of Granville, a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

Canada

* Granville was the former name of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which now lends itself to:
** Granville Island, a peninsula in Vancouver
** Granville Street, a major road in Vancouver
* Granville, Nova Scotia, also known as Granville Ferry

Europe

* Granville, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
* Granville, Manche, a commune of the Manche département in France

United States

* Granville, Illinois
* Granville, Indiana (extinct)
* Granville, Delaware County, Indiana
* Granville, Iowa
* Granville, Massachusetts
* Granville Township, Minnesota
* Granville, New York
** Granville (village), New York
* Granville, North Dakota
* Granville, Ohio
* Granville South, Ohio
* Granville Township, Pennsylvania
* Granville, Tennessee
* Granville, Vermont
** Granville Notch, a mountain pass in Vermont
* Granville, West Virginia
* Granville, Wisconsin (ceased to exist in 1956)
* Granville County, North Carolina

Rail and metro stations

* Granville (CTA), a station on the Red Line of the Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois, United States
* Granville Station (TransLink), a station on the SkyTrain system in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Other

* The Granville Raid on 8-9 March 1945 where German forces based in the Channel Islands successfully raided Granville, Manche.


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