Guildford (disambiguation)
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Guildford is the county town of Surrey, England. It gives its name to the wider Borough of Guildford. It has in the past also been spelt Guilford.
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[edit] Places
Places named after it, using either spelling, include:
- Australia
- Guildford, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
- Guildford, Victoria
- Guildford, Western Australia
- Canada
- Guildford Town Centre, a town centre in Surrey, British Columbia
- United States
- Guilford, Connecticut
- Guilford, Indiana
- Guilford, Maine
- Guilford, Maryland
- Guilford (neighborhood), Baltimore, Maryland - site of Sherwood Gardens
- Guilford, New York
- Guilford, Vermont
- Guilford County, North Carolina
[edit] People
- Lord Guilford Dudley (sometimes spelled "Guildford") (1536–1554), husband of Lady Jane Grey
- J. P. Guilford (1897–1988), an American psychologist
- Earl of Guilford and Baron Guilford, peerage titles
- Guildford Four, four Irish people wrongly convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombings in the Surrey town
[edit] Other uses
- Guilford Transportation Industries, now Pan Am Systems, a railroad and airline holding company