Wentworth Explained

Wentworth may refer to:

People and fictional characters

• 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

Australia

• 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

• 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

• Wentworth, KwaZulu-Natal, a township of Durban

United Kingdom

• 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

• 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

• 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

• , a British cargo ship built in 1919 and sunk in 1943
• , a Canadian frigate launched in 1943 and scrapped in 1947

Television

• Wentworth (TV series), an Australian drama series, a reimagining of Prisoner (see below)
• Wentworth Detention Centre, in the Australian television series Prisoner

Schools

• 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

• 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

• 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