Fairfield
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Australia
- Fairfield, New South WalesFairfield, New South WalesFairfield is a western suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Fairfield is located 29 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Fairfield and is also partly in the local government...
, the most populous place in Australia with that place name- Electoral district of FairfieldElectoral district of FairfieldFairfield is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's West. Fairfield has historically been one of the safest Labor seats in New South Wales and is considered a part of Labor's heartland in Western Sydney...
, the corresponding seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
- Electoral district of Fairfield
- Fairfield, QueenslandFairfield, QueenslandFairfield is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 5 km south of the Brisbane CBD on the Brisbane River. The suburb is mainly residential with house and unit accommodation.-Geography:...
- Fairfield, VictoriaFairfield, VictoriaFairfield is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Darebin and Yarra...
- Fairfield West, New South WalesFairfield West, New South WalesFairfield West is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Fairfield West is located 33 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Fairfield...
- Fairfield Heights, New South WalesFairfield Heights, New South WalesFairfield Heights is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Fairfield Heights is located 31 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Fairfield...
- Fairfield East, New South WalesFairfield East, New South WalesFairfield East is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Fairfield East is located west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Fairfield...
New Zealand
- Fairfield, OtagoFairfield, OtagoThe quiet suburb of Fairfield lies 10 kilometres to the west of Dunedin CBD, in Otago, southern New Zealand.Fairfield lies in rolling hill country between Abbotsford and the Taieri Plains, close to the slopes of Saddle Hill and Scroggs Hill...
, a suburb of Dunedin - Fairfield, WaikatoFairfield, WaikatoFairfield is a suburb to the northeast of central Hamilton, New Zealand. It contains many of Hamilton's state houses and apart from the area near the Waikato River is one of the lower value residential areas in the city.-History:...
, a suburb of Hamilton - Fairfield, WellingtonFairfield, WellingtonFairfield is an eastern suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand situated at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand....
, a suburb of Lower Hutt
United Kingdom
- Fairfield (Croydon ward)
- Fairfield (Wandsworth ward)Fairfield (Wandsworth ward)Fairfield is one of the most central wards in the London Borough of Wandsworth, London, containing Wandsworth High Street, Old York Road and the council buildings themselves...
- Fairfield, Bromsgrove, a village in NE Worcestershire
- Fairfield, Bury, part of BuryBuryBury is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Irwell, east of Bolton, west-southwest of Rochdale, and north-northwest of the city of Manchester...
, Greater Manchester - Fairfield, Clackmannanshire, a village
- Fairfield, County DurhamFairfield, County DurhamFairfield is a suburb of Stockton-on-Tees within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated to the north-west of the town centre....
, a suburb - Fairfield, DerbyshireFairfield, DerbyshireFairfield is an urban area of Buxton in Derbyshire, located half a mile to the North-East from Buxton town centre. It is centred around the "Green" a village green.-History:...
, a village - Fairfield, Evesham, part of the town of EveshamEveshamEvesham is a market town and a civil parish in the Local Authority District of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England with a population of 22,000. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon...
, SE Worcestershire - Fairfield, Kent, a village
- Fairfield (Lake District)Fairfield (Lake District)Fairfield is a fell in the English Lake District. It is the highest of a group of hills in the Eastern Fells, standing to the south of the Helvellyn range.-Topography:...
, a mountain - Fairfield, LiverpoolFairfield, LiverpoolFairfield is an area of Liverpool, in Merseyside, England, encompassing streets between Tuebrook and Kensington and stretching to Old Swan. It consists of a variety of houses; there are some traditional red-brick terraces, larger Victorian villas and also the notable and rather wonderful 300...
, part of Liverpool, Merseyside - Fairfield, Droylsden
- Fairfield, Wyre Forest, a village in NW Worcestershire
- Fairfield HallsFairfield HallsFairfield Hall is an arts centre in Croydon, London, England and opened in 1962. It contains a concert hall, the Ashcroft Theatre , the Arnhem Gallery civic hall and an art gallery....
, an entertainment centre in Croydon - Fairfield House, Bath, the residence of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I during his exile
- Fairfield House, Uppingham School
- Fairfield Moravian ChurchFairfield Moravian ChurchFairfield Moravian Church and its surrounding settlement was founded in 1785 by Benjamin La Trobe as a centre for evangelistic work in the Manchester area. Numbers 15, 28 and 30 Fairfield Square are Grade II listed buildings...
, in Droylsden, Manchester - Fairfield Park, a village in SomersetSomersetThe ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
- Fairfield, Port Talbot, a central neighbourhood of Aberafan, Port Talbot
- Fairfield Preparatory SchoolFairfield Preparatory SchoolFairfield Preparatory School is a fee-paying independent mixed preparatory school in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It is one of three private schools known collectively as the Loughborough Endowed Schools, along with Loughborough Grammar School for boys and Loughborough High School for...
, Loughborough, Leicestershire - Green FairfieldGreen FairfieldGreen Fairfield is a civil parish in Derbyshire, England. It is located in the Peak District, 4 miles west of Buxton and north of the parish of King Sterndale. Woo Dale lies within the parish....
, a civil parish in DerbyshireDerbyshireDerbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...
United States
- Fairfield, AlabamaFairfield, AlabamaFairfield is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Birmingham–Hoover Metropolitan Area. The population was 12,381 at the 2000 census. As of 2006, the Census estimates the population to be 11,547.-History:...
- Fairfield, CaliforniaFairfield, CaliforniaFairfield is a city located in Solano County in Northern California, USA. It is generally considered the midpoint between the cities of San Francisco and Sacramento, approximately from the city center of both cities, approximately from the city center of Oakland, less than from Napa Valley, 18...
- Fairfield, ConnecticutFairfield, ConnecticutFairfield is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is bordered by the towns of Bridgeport, Trumbull, Easton, Redding and Westport along the Gold Coast of Connecticut. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 59,404...
- Fairfield, Georgia
- Fairfield, IdahoFairfield, IdahoFairfield is the county seat of and the only city in Camas County, Idaho, United States. The population was 395 at the 2000 census, nearly half of the rural county's population.-Geography:...
- Fairfield, IllinoisFairfield, IllinoisFairfield is the county seat of Wayne County, Illinois, United States, the site of Frontier Community College, , , and Airtex; an auto parts manufacturing facility...
- Fairfield, IowaFairfield, IowaFairfield is a city and the county seat of Jefferson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 9,464 in the 2010 census, a decline from 9,509 in the 2000 census. - History :...
- Fairfield, KentuckyFairfield, KentuckyFairfield is a city in Nelson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 72 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Fairfield is located at ....
- Fairfield, MaineFairfield, MaineFairfield is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The population was 6,735 at the 2010 census. The town includes Fairfield Center, Fairfield village and Hinckley...
- Fairfield, Massachusetts
- Fairfield, MontanaFairfield, MontanaFairfield is a town in Teton County, Montana, United States. The population was 659 at the 2000 census. Fairfield is the self-proclaimed "Malting Barley Capital of the World" with of irrigated cropland and of non-irrigated cropland in production for the purpose of raising malt barley in the...
- Fairfield, NebraskaFairfield, NebraskaFairfield is a city in Clay County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 467 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Hastings, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Fairfield is located at ....
- Fairfield Township, New Jersey (disambiguation)
- Fairfield, New YorkFairfield, New YorkFairfield is a town in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 1,607 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Fairfield, Connecticut.The Town of Fairfield is north of the Village of Herkimer and east of Utica...
- Fairfield, Hyde County, North CarolinaFairfield, Hyde County, North CarolinaFairfield is an unincorporated community in Hyde County, North Carolina, United States. It is a place on the Pamlico Sound. The Lost Colony of Roanoke was near here....
- Fairfield, Union County, North Carolina
- Fairfield, North DakotaFairfield, North DakotaFairfield is an unincorporated community in northeastern Billings County, North Dakota, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 85 northwest of the city of Medora, the county seat of Billings County. Its elevation is 2,756 feet...
- Fairfield, OhioFairfield, OhioFairfield is a city in Butler County in the U.S. state of Ohio, near Cincinnati. Fairfield was incorporated in 1955. The population was 42,510 at the 2010 census. The city school district is one of the largest in Ohio, with Fairfield High School graduating 842 students in June 2009. Fairfield is...
- Fairfield, OklahomaFairfield, OklahomaFairfield is a census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 367 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Fairfield is located at ....
- Fairfield, PennsylvaniaFairfield, PennsylvaniaFairfield is a borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 486 at the 2000 census.-History:During the Gettysburg Campaign in the American Civil War, the Battle of Fairfield played an important role in securing the Fairfield pass and the Hagerstown Road, enabling Robert E...
- Fairfield, South Carolina
- Fairfield, TexasFairfield, TexasFairfield is a city in Freestone County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,094 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Freestone County.-Geography:Fairfield is located at ....
- Fairfield, UtahFairfield, UtahFairfield is a town located in Utah County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The latitude of...
- Fairfield, VermontFairfield, VermontFairfield is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,800 at the 2000 census. It is believed President Chester A...
- Fairfield, Virginia
- Fairfield, WashingtonFairfield, WashingtonFairfield is a town in Spokane County, Washington, United States. The population was 612 at the 2010 census.-History:In 1888, E.H. Morrison named Fairfield after his wife's hometown. Fairfield was officially incorporated on March 3, 1905.-Events:...
- Fairfield, WisconsinFairfield, WisconsinFairfield is a town in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,023 at the 2000 census. The town is the location of the "sand farm" purchased by Aldo Leopold in 1935. A family retreat from the city of Madison, Leopold's attempts to restore health to this abandoned farm, with the...
- Fairfield County, ConnecticutFairfield County, ConnecticutFairfield County is a county located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The county population is 916,829 according to the 2010 Census. There are currently 1,465 people per square mile in the county. It is the most populous county in the State of Connecticut and contains...
- Fairfield County, OhioFairfield County, OhioFairfield County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of 2010, the population was 146,156. Its county seat is Lancaster. Its name is a reference to the Fairfield area of the original Lancaster....
- Fairfield County, South Carolina
- Fairfield Township, Michigan (disambiguation)
- Fairfield Township, Minnesota (disambiguation)
- Fairfield Township, Nebraska (disambiguation)
- Fairfield Township, Cumberland County, New JerseyFairfield Township, Cumberland County, New JerseyFairfield Township is a township in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the Vineland-Millville- Bridgeton Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area for statistical purposes...
- Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey
- Fairfield Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation)
- Fairfield Bay, ArkansasFairfield Bay, ArkansasFairfield Bay is a city in Cleburne and Van Buren counties in the northern part of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The population was 2,460 at the 2000 census...
- Fairfield Osborn PreserveFairfield Osborn PreserveThe Fairfield Osborn Preserve is a 411 acre nature reserve situated on the northwest flank of Sonoma Mountain in Sonoma County, California. There are eight plant communities within the property, oak woodland being the dominant type...
, California - Fort Fairfield, MaineFort Fairfield, MaineFort Fairfield is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,496 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 78.4 square miles , of which, 76.6 square miles of it is land and 1.7 square miles ...
- New Fairfield, ConnecticutNew Fairfield, ConnecticutNew Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 13,881 at the 2010 census. The town is considered part of the greater New York Metropolitan Area and lies approximately from New York City...
- New Fairfield, IndianaNew Fairfield, IndianaFor the town in the northeastern United States, go to: New Fairfield, Connecticut.New Fairfield is an unincorporated town in Fairfield Township, Franklin County, Indiana....
- West Fairfield, New York
Companies
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering CompanyFairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering CompanyThe Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited was a British shipbuilding company in the Govan area on the Clyde in Glasgow. Fairfields, as it is often known, was a major warship builder, turning out many vessels for the Royal Navy and other navies through the First World War and the...
, a shipbuilder located in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland - Fairfield IndustriesFairfield IndustriesFairfieldNodal is a privately held full service geophysical company with worldwide operations. In 2010, Fairfield Industries was renamed FairfieldNodal, a name that reflects the company’s expertise in nodal technology...
, a full-service geophysical contractor located in Sugar Land, TX - Fairfield Sentry Fund Ltd., a fund victim of the Madoff scandal.
- Fairfield Manufacturing, now named Oerlikon Fairfield, manufacturer of custom gears and special drive solutions for heavy duty Industrial and Off-Highway applications
Educational institutions
- Fairfield College Preparatory SchoolFairfield College Preparatory SchoolFairfield College Preparatory School is a Jesuit Prep School located on the campus of Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is an all male school of about 900 students, first founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942...
, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA - Fairfield CollegeFairfield CollegeFairfield College is a co-educational state secondary school in Hamilton, New Zealand. Located in the north-east suburb of Fairfield, it was founded in 1957. Built on the site of a former dairy farm which is leased from Tainui iwi, it is one of the largest school sites in the...
, Hamilton, New Zealand - Fairfield Grammar SchoolFairfield Grammar SchoolFairfield Grammar School was a secondary school in Bristol, England, founded in 1898 as Fairfield Secondary and Higher Grade School. It became a grammar school in 1945 and closed in 2000, to be replaced by a new comprehensive, Fairfield High School, at first on the same site, but now located in...
, Bristol, England - Fairfield High School for GirlsFairfield High School for GirlsFairfield High School for Girls, is an all-girls' secondary school in Droylsden, Greater Manchester.-Admissions:There are around 950 girls and over 50 teachers....
, Droylsden, Greater Manchester, England - Fairfield High School (disambiguation), various
- Fairfield Junior-Senior High SchoolFairfield Junior-Senior High SchoolFairfield Junior-Senior High School is public secondary school located in Goshen, Indiana by US-33. It is a part of Fairfield Community Schools. The school serves about 900 students in grades 7 through 12 coming from New Paris Elementary School, Millersburg Elementary School, and Benton Elementary...
, Goshen, Indiana - Fairfield Methodist Secondary SchoolFairfield Methodist Secondary SchoolFairfield Methodist School is an autonomous co-educational Methodist secondary school in Dover, Singapore. It covers Secondary 1 to Secondary 5 inclusive .-History:...
, Dover , Singapore - Fairfield Methodist School (Primary), Dover , Singapore
- Fairfield SchoolFairfield SchoolFairfield School is a Primary and Intermediate school in Dunedin, New Zealand. It was established during the late 19th century in the suburb of Fairfield by William Martin. It is situated on Sickels Street, a small cul-de-sac near the Dunedin Southern Motorway.The school has restricted enrolment to...
, Dunedin, New Zealand - Fairfield UniversityFairfield UniversityFairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...
, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Ships
- HMS FairfieldHMS FairfieldHMS Fairfield was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I....
, a Royal Navy Hunt class minesweeper launched in 1919