Townsend Explained

Townsend or Townshend may refer to:

Places

United States

• Camp Townsend, National Guard training base in Peekskill, New York
• Townsend, Delaware
• Townsend, Georgia
• Townsend, Massachusetts, a New England town
  • Townsend (CDP), Massachusetts, the main village in the town
  • Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts, another village in the town
• Townsend, Montana
• Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio
• Townsend Township, Sandusky County, Ohio
• Townsend, Tennessee
• Townsend, Wisconsin, a town
• Townsend (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Townshend, Vermont, a New England town
  • Townshend (CDP), Vermont, the main village in the town
• Port Townsend, Washington
  • Port Townsend Bay
  • Port Townsend Film Festival

Canada

• Townsend Township, Ontario
• Townsend, Ontario
• Townsend Lake, Saskatchewan

United Kingdom

• Townsend, Buckinghamshire
• Townshend, Cornwall
• Townsend, Bournemouth, Dorset
• Townsend, Poulshot, Wiltshire
• Townsend, Kingswinford, an area at the end of the village of Kingswinford in the West Midlands
• Townsend Industrial Estate in Houghton Regis, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire

New Zealand

• Townsend Observatory

Australia

• Mount Townsend (Snowy Mountains), the second-highest peak in mainland Australia
• the name of Marburg, Queensland for a brief period during World War 1

Buildings and structures

• Townsend Central Public School, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
• Townsend Hotel (Birmingham, Michigan)
• Townsend Hotel (Casper, Wyoming), a NRHP-listed property
• Townshend International School, 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), several buildings
• James W. Townsend House (Orange Springs, Florida)
• James W. Townsend House (Lake Butler, Florida)

History

• Townshend Acts, 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
• Townsend (unit)

Other uses

• Townsend (name)
• Mount Townsend (disambiguation)
• Townsend and Townsend and Crew, law firm established in 1860, based in San Francisco, California
• Townsend Thoresen, 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 YouTube channel