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Wiktionary
n. 1 A town in Cheshire, England. 2 A town in Virginia.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1074
Land area (2000): 2.029688 sq. miles (5.256868 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.029688 sq. miles (5.256868 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20160
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.179316 N, 78.127549 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 23930
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Crewe
Wikipedia
Crewe is a railway town and civil parish within the borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The area has a population of roughly 84,000. Crewe is perhaps best known as a large railway junction and home to Crewe Works, for many years a major railway engineering facility for manufacturing and overhauling locomotives, but now much reduced in size. From 1946 until 2002 it was also the home of Rolls-Royce motor car production. The Pyms Lane factory on the west of the town now produces Bentley motor cars exclusively. Crewe is 158 miles north of London, 243 miles south of Glasgow and 35 miles south of Manchester.
Crewe is a crater approximately 3 km in diameter lying situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars, located at 25° South, 10° West.
The crater was named after the town of Crewe, Cheshire, England.
Crewe was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
The constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election in favour of Crewe and Nantwich, with some of the constituency moved into Congleton.
Crewe may refer to:
Places:
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Crewe, a town in Cheshire, England
- Crewe railway station, a large railway station serving the town of Crewe
- Crewe Works, a railway engineering facility in the town
- Crewe Heritage Centre, a railway museum
- Crewe Hall, a Jacobean mansion east of the town
- Crewe (UK Parliament constituency), defunct House of Commons constituency
- Crewe Green, a village and civil parish to the east of the town, historically named Crewe
- Crewe, Virginia, USA, a town
- Crewe (crater), a crater on Mars named after the English town
People:
- Crewe (surname)
Other:
- Marquess of Crewe, an extinct title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Baron Crewe, another extinct title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Crewe United F.C., an intermediate-level football club in Northern Ireland
- Sara Crewe, the main character in the children's novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement (CREWE), an organization of public relations officials and Wikipedia editors
Crewe or Crew is a surname of Old Welsh origin.
People with this surname include:- Albert Crewe (1927–2009), physicist and inventor of the scanning transmission electron microscope
- Bertie Crewe (1860–1937), British theatre designer
- Bob Crewe (1930–2014), American songwriter, singer, manager, and record producer
- Francis Albert Eley Crew (1886-1973), British animal geneticist
- Sir George Harpur Crewe, 8th Baronet (1795–1844), English Tory politician
- Harvey and Jeannette Crewe, murder victims in New Zealand
- Henry Harpur Crewe (1828–1883), English clergyman and naturalist
- Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (1812–1894)
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John Crewe (disambiguation), various persons of that name, including:
- John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe (1742–1829)
- John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe (1772–1835)
- Ranulph Crewe (1558–1646), English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench
- Thomas Crewe (1565–1634), English Member of Parliament and lawyer, Speaker of the House of Commons
- Amanda Crew, Canadian film and television actress
- Gary Crew, Australian writer of young adult fiction
- Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew, Bishop of Oxford (1671 to 1674) and Bishop of Durham (1674 to 1721)
- Rudy Crew, former Superintendent of Schools of Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida, USA
Usage examples of "crewe".
Crewe fell back upon Knox, and the combined columns made for Bloemfontein, whence they could use the rails for their transport.
Behind them marched six hundred Cheshire and Lancashire archers, bearing the badge of the Audleys, followed by the famous Lord Audley himself, with the four valiant squires, Dutton of Dutton, Delves of Doddington, Fowlehurst of Crewe, and Hawkestone of Wainehill, who had all won such glory at Poictiers.
Little Becky gazed up at her Aunt Lily, fallen too shy to work on the first impression she had planned to make, a sort of Sarah Bernhardt and Sara Crewe pastiche, standing injured yet indomitable in the face of adversity.
And the Outlanders who had followed Jack Dedham when he decided to follow the young Harry Crewe, who had become Harimad-sol and the Hill-king's Rider, and who did not know the Hill tongue, looked around them, and at the two tall figures before them standing beside the chestnut stallion, and they cheered too.
He himself, now, he was from Jamaica, mon, but Crewe Road was in George Town, Grand Cayman.
Ralph Crewe and I loved each other as boys, but we had not met since our school days, until we met in India.
Carmichael repeated, and he could not help adding, with a rather sly, unlawyer-like smile, "There are not many princesses, Miss Minchin, who are richer than your little charity pupil, Sara Crewe, will be.