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7 unusual facts about Woodville


Allan Shivers Library and Museum

The Allan Shivers Library and Museum is located at 302 N. Charlton, in the city of Woodville, in the county of Tyler, in the U.S. state of Texas.

Cornwallis Square, Nova Scotia

When the rural community of Woodville was included in the service area in the 1960s the name was changed to Cornwallis Square.

Peter Randolph

He then moved to Woodville, Mississippi, where he was a planter, and continued his private practice from 1820 to 1823.

Richie Alagich

Born in Woodville, Adelaide, South Australia, Alagich played representative football for his home state from 1985 through to 1991.

Tom Brice

Thomas Robert (Tom) Brice (born August 24, 1981) in Woodville, South Australia is an Australian baseballer.

Woodville Oval

Woodville Oval (currently Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval and formerly Unleash Solar Oval) is primarily an Australian rules football and cricket oval found on Oval Avenue in the western Adelaide suburb of Woodville in South Australia.

Woodville, New Zealand

At Woodville Railway Station, the Palmerston North - Gisborne Line meets the Wairarapa Line and a balloon loop permits through running via the Wairarapa to Wellington.


Anne of York

Anne of York, Lady Howard (1475–1511), daughter of Edward IV, King of England, and Elizabeth Woodville; wife of Thomas Howard, later 3rd Duke of Norfolk

Australian rules football in South Australia

The inaugural 1877 season was contested by those 12 clubs: South Park, Willunga, Port Adelaide, Adelaide, North Adelaide, Prince Alfred College, Gawler, Kapunda, Bankers, Woodville, South Adelaide and Victorian.

Charles Stephen Reeves

Reeves later emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand aboard the Nelson in June 1862 and settled at his property Woodville in the North East Valley.

Elizabeth Woodville School

Woodville was born in Grafton Regis, which is halfway between the two sites, and was Queen consort of King Edward IV.

Frank Collymore

Collymore was born at Woodville Cottage, Chelsea Road, Saint Michael, Barbados (where he lived all his life).

Holdens railway station

Holdens railway station is a former railway station on the Grange railway line which is located in the western Adelaide suburb of Woodville.

John Woodville

Before leaving Calais to support the uprising, Warwick had published a manifesto citing the Woodvilles in general, and the Earl and John Woodville specifically, as his reason for supporting Clarence against the King.

In January 1465, Woodville's sister, Queen Elizabeth, procured his marriage to Catherine Neville, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk (born c. 1400 – died after 1483), who was aunt to the powerful Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.

Katherine Woodville

Catherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham (1458–1497), English medieval noblewoman, sister of Elizabeth Woodville, the queen of Edward IV of England

Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk (1397–1483), later Woodville, English courtier of royal descent

Lady Eleanor Talbot

Michael Hicks suggests that King Edward was liable to give "benefits" in exchange for sex: "Three young widows, Eleanor Butler, Elizabeth Lucy and Elizabeth Wydeville Woodville, may have bought concrete benefits from Edward IV with their sexual favours.

Mary Woodville

Mary Woodville, Countess of Pembroke (c. 1456–1481) was a sister of Edward IV's Queen consort, Elizabeth Woodville, and of Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers.

Opaki Railway Station

Because of the lengthy and costly delays associated with the operation of the Rimutaka Incline, much freight traffic from the northern Wairarapa region was diverted north through Woodville and Palmerston North so it could be taken down the Main Trunk Line to Wellington.

Outer Harbor railway line

Weekday peak services run every 20-30 min, with the majority also running express between Adelaide and Woodville.

Parramatta Road

It passes many other major roads in Sydney such as the Hume Highway, Woodville Road, Centenary Drive and Old Canterbury Road.

Pinconning Township, Michigan

Woodville is an unincorporated community within the township at 7 Mile Road and Cody Estey Road west of Interstate 75.

Richard Caton Woodville, Jr.

The son of Richard Caton Woodville, Sr., who was also a talented artist, Woodville studied at the Düsseldorf school of painting under the Prussian military artist Wilhelm Camphausen, and then Eduard von Gebhardt, before briefly studying in Russia and then Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Richard Woodville

Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (died 1491), son of the above, brother of Elizabeth Woodville

Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (1405 – 1469), English nobleman, father of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV

South Australia Rugby Union

By 1971 clubs included: Army, Adelaide University, Glenelg, Burnside, Elizabeth, Flinders University, North Adelaide, Old Collegians, Onkaparinga, Port Adelaide, Roseworthy College Rams, Salisbury, Southern Suburbs, West Torrens and Woodville.

William Chisholm

William A. A. Chisholm, 1823 founder of the Woodville Republican newspaper in Woodville, Mississippi

William Kennedy Dickson

In late 1894 or early 1895, Dickson became an ad hoc advisor to the motion picture operation of the Latham brothers, Otway and Grey, and their father, Woodville, who ran one of the leading Kinetoscope exhibition companies.

Woodville Oval

Woodville Oval has a capacity of around 15,000 people, with seating for up to 2,000 in two covered stands located on the western side of the ground, with the players changerooms located under the Barry Jarman Stand on the centre wing.

Woodville railway station, Adelaide

In the Second World War several munitions and armaments factories were opened, which resulted in construction of two new industrial branch lines in the Woodville area.

Woodville Railway Station, New Zealand

Woodville is occasionally either a waypoint or a destination for excursion passenger trains operated by local rail heritage organisations such as Mainline Steam and Steam Incorporated.

Woodville was the railhead of the line from Napier until the line was completed through the Manawatu Gorge, connecting it with Palmerston North in 1891.


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