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7 unusual facts about Ooty


Ambika Pillai

Although education in the strict sense of the word was the last thing that exited her, she did her early schooling in Ooty.

Angel School

In early 1980 there was no good English Medium School in and around Anand area and parents were compelled to put their children to Mt. Abu, Ooty or other places.

Automobile Products of India

These auto rickshaws are still in operation in certain parts of the country, notably in Coimbatore and Ooty regions and parts of Kerala.

Government Arts College, Ooty

The college is located is a locale called Stone house hill named after the landmark building Stone House.

Nilgiris 1905

Muthusamy carried letters and cheques for the British from Coimbatore to the hill stations of Ooty and Coonoor.

Philip Furley Fyson

In 1910 some 30 amateur women naturalists in the Kodaikanal and Ooty area were illustrating the local flora under the guidance of Lady Bourne.

Woodside School, Ooty

Woodside School is a co-educational boarding school and day school situated on the outskirts of Udhagamandalam Tamil Nadu, India, a hill station which is more commonly known under its abbreviated name of Ooty.


In Ghost House Inn

The story shifts to the present day, where Thomas Kutty (Ashokan) buys a bungalow in Ooty with the cash which he received in 2 Harihar Nagar, with the intent of converting it into a resort.

Little Flower Public School

Field visits are organised for all classes, including to Kanyakumari, Kerala, Madurai, Vishakapatnam, Mekedatu, Western Ghats, Goa, Ooty, Kodaikanal, Hampi and Hyderabad.

Mary of the Passion

Growth reached a point where she was able to staff a new convent in Oocatamund (Udhagamandalam), Tamil Nadu, a popular hill station deep in the Nilgiri mountains, located in the Vicariate Apostolic of Diocese of Coimbatore, established under the authority of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.

Southwick Bungalow

Southwick bungalow is a 19th-century building in Southwick, a suburb in Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India.

St. Stephen's Church, Ooty

Stephen Rumbold Lushington, the then Governor of Madras, who keenly felt the need for a church in Ooty exclusively for the British, laid the foundation for the church on April 23, 1829, to coincide with the birthday of King George IV.


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