List of dedications to Edith Cavell explained

This is a list of places and organisations named after Edith Cavell. For major monuments to her memory, see the list at Edith Cavell.

Medical and nursing

Country Facility Notes
UK A ward in the Basildon University Hospital, Basildon, Essex
Australia A building at Brisbane General Hospital Precinct
UK
UK
Canada
Canada The site was Edith Cavell Hospital from 1955 to 2000
UK
UK Cavell Ward at the former Digby Hospital Exeter Exe Vale Hospitals group
Canada Edith Cavell Care Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta
New Zealand A retirement village
Belgium (CHIREC) Group of five hospitals including the former Edith Cavell Clinic, Uccle (Ukkel) Brussels
UK Edith Cavell Healthcare Campus, Peterborough The campus is on the site of the former Edith Cavell Hospital where she received part of her education
Canada Demolished in 2013
Canada Edith Cavell Regional School of Nursing, Belleville, Ontario Demolished in 2013
UK Edith Cavell Surgery, Streatham, London
Belgium Sanatorium Edith Cavell, Obourg
UK Edith Cavell Building (ECB) Housing the School of Nursing Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Australia The Edith Cavell Trust Established by the New South Wales Nurses' Association to provide scholarships to nurses in New South Wales
USA A philanthropy of the Dallas County Medical Society Alliance Foundation providing scholarships to exceptional nursing students in Dallas, Texas and the surrounding area
UK
UK A 12-bed ward, which cares for elderly patients

Streets

Country Street Location Notes
Belgium Brussels Where there is a hospital named Edith Cavell, next to previous "Rue de la Culture" which was her first nurse school
France Avenue Edith Cavell 43.1106°N 6.126°W
France Avenue Edith-Cavell
France Rue Edith Cavell
France Avenue Miss Cavell
Canada Cavell Avenue Etobicoke, Ontario
Canada Cavell Avenue Guelph, Ontario
Canada Cavell Avenue The Danforth neighbourhood of Toronto
UK Cavell Avenue 52.2202°N -0.0957°W
USA Cavell Avenue
USA Cavell Avenue
USA Cavell Street Roselle, New Jersey
UK Cavell Close Woodbeck, Nottinghamshire Demolished
UK Cavell Close Adjacent to Princess Royal Hospital
UK Cavell Drive 51.8667°N 0.1765°W
Canada Cavell Drive
UK Cavell Drive Queen Alexandra Hospital
New Zealand Cavell Place
UK Cavell Road Billericay, Essex
UK Cavell Road Formerly part of Worcestershire
UK Cavell Road
UK Cavell Street Whitechapel, London Formerly known as Bedford Street. It runs next to the London Hospital where Cavell trained.
New Zealand Cavell Street -45.9005°N 170.5194°W
New Zealand Cavell Street Reefton
Australia Cavell Street Formerly known as Princes Street, renamed 1921.
USA Cavell Street
UK Cavell Walk
UK Cavell Way
UK Cavell Way Pendleton, Salford, Greater Manchester
Canada Edith Cavell Boulevard
UK Edith Cavell Close Openshaw, Manchester
UK Edith Cavell Court
South Africa Edith Cavell Street Hillbrow, Johannesburg -26.1923°N 28.0468°W
Mauritius Edith Cavell Street -20.1657°N 57.5021°W
UK Edith Cavell Way Shooter's Hill, London 51.472°N 0.0478°W
UK Edith Cavell Way
Belgium Edith Cavellstraat
New Zealand Nurse Cavell Lane Paparoa, Northland
Portugal Rua Edith Cavell 38.7333°N -9.1317°W
Portugal Rua Edith Cavell 38.7468°N -9.2299°W
Belgium Rue Edith Cavell / Edith Cavellstraat Uccle (Ukkel), Brussels 50.8067°N 4.3572°W
France Rue Edith Cavell 49.5085°N 0.0842°W
France Rue Edith Cavell
France Rue Miss Cavell
France Rue Miss Edith Cawell

Schools, houses and school buildings

Country School House or building Location Notes
UK Crosslee Primary School Cavell House Blackley, Manchester
Canada A middle school Closed in 1987
Canada An elementary school Later renamed to S.F. Howe
UK Cavell Stamford, Lincolnshire
UK Cavell House Sheringham, Norfolk Blue house.
Jersey Cavell House Dark blue house
India Cavell House Kolkata Green house
India Cavell House Mumbai Green house
Argentina Northlands School Cavell House Olivos Founded 1920
UK Cavell House Gorleston Red house
Australia Cavell House Blue house
UK Cavell Primary School
Canada Edith Cavell Elementary School
Canada
India Barnes School Edith Cavell House Deolali Green house
UK Edith Cavell House Rugby House abolished after 1979.
UK
Canada
UK a boarding block Norfolk
UK Edith Cavell Secondary School Hackney, London
UK Abbeydale Grammar School for Girls Cavell House Sheffield
Jamaica St. Andrew High School for Girls Cavell House Saint Andrew School house, denoted by the colour red.

Other

Country Name Location Notes
CanadaMount Edith CavellOne Dollar postage stampPrinted by British American Bank Note Company, December 4, 1930 (Scott: #177)
UK Cavell Gardens Cavell Gardens War memorial named in 1922, with new memorial stone added 2015
Lat 38.3, Long 18.8A geological feature on the planet
UK Car park One of four car parks in the centre. During refurbishment in 2011 plans to drop the names of all four car parks and refer only to them by colour (Cavell being "blue") resulted in a public backlash and the names being retained.
UK Cavell House Where she spent some of her childhood, now a guest house.
UK Cavell House 26, College Road, Norwich Where her parents lived in retirement
USA Cavell Park Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota A playground.
New Zealand Shotover River, Otago region The bridge, opened in 1919, was unofficially named by a person who lived in a hut nearby. Whilst the local council did not agree with the naming, the name stuck and the bridge has since been known by this name
USA Edith Cavell Chapter of the Daughters of the British Empire Houston, Texas
UK The Edith Cavell public house
UK The passenger luggage van that transported her remains from Dover to London during her repatriation.
A variety of rose first bred in 1917
Canada A peak in the Canadian Rockies, named for her in 1916
UK A hospital radio station at the Royal Oldham Hospital
USA YWCA Camp Cavell
UK Edith Cavell Projectile Factory
France, Belgium Girl's name Edith became a popular name for French and Belgian girls after her execution. The French chanteuse Édith Piaf (1915–1963), born two months after Cavell was executed, was the best known of these.
USA Racehorse Edith Cavell Mare sired by Man o' War out of The Nurse. Foaled in 1923, Edith Cavell won the 1926 Coaching Club American Oaks and also defeated male horses in other stakes events.

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