Crossword clues for abingdon
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1535
Land area (2000): 1.459322 sq. miles (3.779626 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.459322 sq. miles (3.779626 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00113
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.803572 N, 90.400770 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61410
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Abingdon
Housing Units (2000): 3788
Land area (2000): 8.341865 sq. miles (21.605329 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.341865 sq. miles (21.605329 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00148
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 36.709773 N, 81.975694 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 24210
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Abingdon
Wikipedia
Abingdon may refer to the following places:
In Australia :
- Abingdon Downs, Queensland, a place in Northern Queensland
In Britain:
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Abingdon-on-Thames
- Abingdon School
- Abingdon Abbey
- Abingdon Lock
- Abingdon Bridge
- Abingdon Air & Country Show
- Abingdon and Witney College
- Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)
In Canada:
- Abingdon, Ontario
In the United States:
- Abingdon, Iowa
- Abingdon, Illinois
- Abingdon, Maryland
- Abingdon (plantation)
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Abingdon, Virginia
- USS Abingdon (PC-1237)
In the Galapagos Islands:
- Abingdon Island
The Abingdon, built in 1902 and 1903, is an English automobile made by John Child Meredith of Birmingham, who normally manufactured ignition equipment and accessories.
The range consisted of a hp single-cylinder-engined two-seater with two-speed gearbox and chain drive. There was also the Meredith model with a 2-cylinder 9 hp engine and a 4-seater tonneau body.
The Abingdon was an English assembled car built in small numbers in 1922 and 1923 in a factory in Tyseley, Birmingham. It used an 11-9 hp 1490 cc 4-cylinder Dorman engine and a 3-speed gearbox. Only 12 were made. G.N. Georgano, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885–1968 (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1974), pp.25.
Production was hampered by financial difficulties for the Wrigley company, who supplied key components such as the steering gear and three-speed gearbox.
The company also produced Abingdon Motorcycles until 1925. In 1905 and 1906, it had produced the 5 hp (4 kW) AKD tricar.
Abingdon was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (and its predecessor institutions for England and Great Britain), electing one Member of Parliament (MP) from 1558 until 1983. (It was one of the few English constituencies in the unreformed House of Commons to elect only one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.)
Abingdon (also known as the Alexander-Custis Plantation) was an 18th- and 19th-century plantation that the prominent Alexander, Custis, Stuart, and Hunter families owned. The plantation's site is now located in Arlington County in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Abingdon is known as the birthplace of Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis Lewis (March 31, 1779 – July 15, 1852), a granddaughter of Martha Washington and a step-granddaughter of United States President George Washington. Abingdon may also have been home to the progenitor of all weeping willows ( Salix babylonica) in the United States. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which occupies part of Abingdon's grounds, contains indoor and outdoor displays that commemorate the plantation's history.
Usage examples of "abingdon".
Let the reader ride from Abingdon through a wilderness of cornpone and rusty bacon, and then judge.
But I assure you, Miss Abingdon, his and my meddling sister's schemes come as a complete surprise to me!
His reflections on the perversity and undutifulness of females he was obliged to keep to himself, but he told Miss Abingdon, with some asperity, that her aunt was searching for her, and taking Lord Stavely by the arm, marched him off to inspect the stables.
It looked just like the one the mobcap in Abingdon had tried to sell me.
We stopped in Abingdon so he could send a telegram to his sister, telling her of his plans, but it obviously went astray, and when he turned up missing, she assumed that he was dead.
From more than a days going south of Abingdon to the remotest tip of Wales, a long, long walk.
I came by that same way, by Abingdon and Oxford, and I have enquired for him everywhere, a young man travelling alone.
And certainly they came from the south, beyond Abingdon, according to Brother Adam of Reading, who lodged there the same night.
And at all events, between Abingdon and Shrewsbury its possible they may have encountered Luc Meverel alone and under his own name.
Ciaran and Matthew were first reported, by Brother Adam of Reading, coming from the south into Abingdon for their nights lodging, two together.
Windsor and Abingdon are the only towns between London and Oxford that you can really see anything of from the stream.
Nicholas Church, at Abingdon, there is a monument to John Blackwall and his wife Jane, who both, after leading a happy married life, died on the very same day, August 21, 1625.
Lee – five times Mayor of Abingdon – was, no doubt, a benefactor to his generation, but I hope there are not many of his kind about in this overcrowded nineteenth century.
Lee - five times Mayor of Abingdon - was, no doubt, a benefactor to his generation, but I hope there are not many of his kind about in this overcrowded nineteenth century.
My father and mother were the Duke and Duchess of Abingdon, you see, and they were as rich as anything.