Chetwynd
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Chetwynd or Chetwynde may refer to:
  • Chetwynd, British Columbia
    Chetwynd, British Columbia
    The District of Chetwynd is a town located on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Situated on an ancient floodplain, it is the first town eastbound travellers encounter after emerging from the Rockies along Highway 97 and acts as the gateway to the Peace...

    • Chetwynd Airport
      Chetwynd Airport
      Chetwynd Airport, , is located adjacent to Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada....

    • Chetwynd Secondary School
  • Chetwynd, Shropshire
    Chetwynd, Shropshire
    Chetwynd is a rural civil parish just to the north of Newport, Shropshire in England.Although the parish contains no substantial nucleated settlements it includes the Chetwynd Park estate, in addition to Sambrook, Howle, Pickstock and a number of other small hamlets.The north-eastern boundary of...

  • Chetwynde School
    Chetwynde School
    Chetwynde School is a non-selective, independent, private school, which takes boys and girls from ages 3 to 18. It includes a nursery, primary school, secondary school and sixth form. The school is situated on a site on Rating Lane in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England.- History :Chetwynde was...

    , a private school in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England
  • Chetwynd, Victoria, a town in the former Shire of Glenelg
    Shire of Glenelg (former)
    The Shire of Glenelg was a Local Government Area located about west of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1863 until 1994.-History:...


People with the surname

  • George Chetwynd
    George Chetwynd
    Sir George Roland Chetwynd, CBE was a British lecturer, politician and public servant. He defeated Harold Macmillan in order to get elected as a Member of Parliament, but later left Parliament to become Director of the North East Development Council for five years in the 1960s.-Education:Chetwynd...

  • Godfrey Chetwynd, 8th Viscount Chetwynd
    Godfrey Chetwynd, 8th Viscount Chetwynd
    Godfrey John Boyle Chetwynd, 8th Viscount Chetwynd CH was a British peer and industrialist.Chetwynd was the second son of Captain Henry Weyland Chetwynd and his wife Julia . On 12 April 1893, he married Baroness Hilda von Alvensleben-Rusteberg...

  • Josh Chetwynd
    Josh Chetwynd
    Joshua Stephen Chetwynd is a journalist, broadcaster, author and former baseball player.-Journalism:Chetwynd has worked as a staff reporter for USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter and U.S. News & World Report...

  • Lali "Spartacus" Chetwynd
    Lali Chetwynd
    Lali "Spartacus" Chetwynd is a British artist. She reworks iconic moments from cultural history in deliberately amateurish and improvisatory performances.-Life:...

     (born 1973) is a British artist]]
  • Lionel Chetwynd
    Lionel Chetwynd
    Lionel Chetwynd is a London-born Canadian-American screenwriter, motion picture and television film director and producer.-Life and career:...

  • Ralph Chetwynd
  • Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes
    Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes
    Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes was an author, best known for his ghost stories. His first published work was the science fiction novel The Man From The Bomb in 1959...

  • William Henry Chetwynd
    William Henry Chetwynd
    William Henry Chetwynd was a son of Sir George Chetwynd, 2nd Baronet who was involved in a sensational divorce case in 1865. He lived at Longdon Hall, Rugeley, in Staffordshire....


See also

  • Chetwynd Baronets
    Chetwynd Baronets
    The Chetwynd Baronetcy, of Brocton Hall in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 1 May 1795 for George Chetwynd, of Brocton Hall, Staffordshire, for many years Clerk to the Privy Council. The second Baronet was Member of Parliament for Stafford and...

  • Viscount Chetwynd
    Viscount Chetwynd
    Viscount Chetwynd, of Bearhaven in the County of Kerry, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1717 for Walter Chetwynd, with remainder to the issue male of his father John Chetwynd. He was made Baron Rathdowne, in the County of Dublin, at the same time, also in the Peerage of...

  • Chetwynd-Talbot, a family name associated with the Earl of Shrewsbury
    Earl of Shrewsbury
    Earl of Shrewsbury is a hereditary title of nobility created twice in the peerage of England.-First creation, 1074:The first creation occurred in 1074 for Roger de Montgomerie, one of William the Conqueror's principal counselors...

     and Earl Talbot
    Earl Talbot
    Earl Talbot is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Great Britain. This branch of the Talbot family descends from the Hon. Sir Gilbert Talbot , third son of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury. His great-great-great-grandson the Right Reverend William Talbot was Bishop of Oxford,...

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