Granville

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There are a number of uses of the term Granville.

See also Grandville.

Contents 1 Earls of Granville 2 People called Granville 2.1 Fictional characters 3 Locations named Granville 3.1 Australia 3.2 Canada 3.3 Europe 3.4 United States counties 3.5 United States communities 4 Rail and metro stations 5 Businesses

[edit] Earls of Granville

Main article: Earl Granville

• Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1667-1744)
• John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690-1763)
• Robert Carteret, 3rd Earl Granville (1721-1776)
• Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville (1773-1846)
• Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891)
• Granville George Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville (1872-1939)
• William Spencer Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville (1880-1953)
• Granville James Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville (1918-1996)
• Granville George Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville (b. 1959)

[edit] People called Granville

• William Anthony Granville, the sixth president of Gettysburg College from 1910 until 1923.
• Granville Woods, 19th century inventor

[edit] Fictional characters

• Granville, a character played by David Jason in the BBC TV sitcom Open All Hours
• Granville Bennett, a recurring character played by James Grout in the BBC TV series All Creatures Great and Small.

[edit] Locations named Granville

[edit] Australia

• Granville, New South Wales is a suburb of Sydney, site of the Granville railway disaster.
  • Electoral district of Granville, a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

[edit] Canada

• Granville was the former name of Vancouver, Canada, which now lends itself to:
  • Granville Island is a peninsula in Vancouver.
  • Granville Street is a major road in Vancouver.

[edit] Europe

• Granville, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Granville, Manche is a commune of the Manche département.

[edit] United States counties

• Granville County, North Carolina

[edit] United States communities

• Granville, Illinois
• Granville, Indiana (extinct)
• Granville, Iowa
• Granville, Massachusetts
• Granville Township, Minnesota
• Granville, New York
• Granville (village), New York
• Granville, North Dakota
• Granville, Ohio
• Granville South, Ohio
• Granville Township, Pennsylvania
• Granville, Vermont
• Granville, West Virginia
• Granville, Wisconsin (ceased to exist in 1956)

[edit] Rail and metro stations

• Granville (CTA Red Line station) - Granville station on the Red Line of the CTA in Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Granville Station (Vancouver) - Granville station on the SkyTrain system in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[edit] Businesses

• Granville Homes voted Best New Home Builder in the (Californian) Central Valley People’s Choice Awards