Granville

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There are a number of uses of the term Granville.

See also Grandville.

Contents 1 Earls Granville 2 People called Granville 3 Locations named Granville 3.1 Australia 3.2 Canada 3.3 Europe 3.4 United States 4 Rail and metro stations 5 Other

[edit] Earls 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

• Arthur Granville (1912 – 1987), Welsh footballer
• John Granville (1974 – 2008), a diplomat with the United States Agency for International Development
• Danny Granville, an English footballer.
• William Anthony Granville, the sixth president of Gettysburg College from 1910 until 1923
• Granville Hicks, American literary figure
• Granville Woods, 19th century inventor

[edit] Locations named Granville

[edit] Australia

• Granville, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, and 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, British Columbia, Canada, which now lends itself to:
  • Granville Island, a peninsula in Vancouver
  • Granville Street, a major road in Vancouver
• Granville, Nova Scotia, also known as Granville Ferry

[edit] Europe

• Granville, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Granville, Manche, a commune of the Manche département in France

[edit] United States

• Granville, Illinois
• Granville, Indiana (extinct)
• Granville, Delaware County, Indiana
• 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, Tennessee
• Granville, Vermont
  • Granville Notch, a mountain pass in Vermont
• Granville, West Virginia
• Granville, Wisconsin (ceased to exist in 1956)
• Granville County, North Carolina

[edit] Rail and metro stations

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

[edit] Other

• The Granville Raid on 8-9 March 1945 where German forces based in the Channel Islands successfully raided Granville, Manche.