Wilmington Explained

Wilmington may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Wilmington, South Australia, a town and locality
  • District Council of Wilmington, a former local government area
  • Wilmington railway line, a former railway line

United Kingdom

• Wilmington, Devon
• Wilmington, East Sussex
• Wilmington, Kent
• Wilmington, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
• Wilmington, Somerset
• Lordship of Wilmington, an ancient manor in Kent in the parish of Sellindge

United States

• Wilmington, Los Angeles, California, a neighborhood
• Wilmington, Delaware
• Wilmington Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware
• Wilmington, Greene County, Illinois
• Wilmington, Will County, Illinois
• Wilmington, Indiana
• Wilmington, Kansas
• Wilmington, Massachusetts
  • Wilmington station (MBTA), commuter rail station
  • Wilmington High School (Massachusetts)
• Wilmington Township, Minnesota
• Wilmington, Minnesota
• Wilmington, New York, a town
  • Wilmington (CDP), New York, the main hamlet in the town
• Wilmington, North Carolina
• Wilmington, Ohio
• Wilmington Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
• Wilmington Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
• Wilmington, Vermont, a New England town
  • Wilmington (CDP), Vermont, the main village in the town
• Wilmington, Virginia
• Wilmington Island, Georgia
  • Wilmington River (Georgia)
• Wilmington Manor, Delaware
• New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, in Lawrence County
• South Wilmington, Illinois, in Grundy County

People

• Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673–1743), British Prime Minister, 1742–1743, who gave his name to many of the places called Wilmington
• Earl of Wilmington, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1730 for Spencer Compton
• Lord of Wilmington, an abbreviation of Lord of the Manor of Wilmington, a feudal dignity relating to land originally granted under an Anglo-Saxon charter of 700 C.E.

Educational institutions

• Wilmington College (Ohio), Wilmington, Ohio
• Wilmington University, New Castle, Delaware
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina

Other uses

• , any of several ships in the United States fleet
• Wilmington insurrection of 1898
• Wilmington plc, a British publishing and business information company
• Wilmington Subdivision, a railroad line in North Carolina

See also

• Wilmington station (disambiguation)