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Housing Units (2000): 549
Land area (2000): 0.999383 sq. miles (2.588389 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.999383 sq. miles (2.588389 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28036
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.611381 N, 94.597656 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64454
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Gower
Wikipedia
Gower electoral ward is an electoral ward in Britain. It is a ward of the City and County of Swansea, and comprises the western part of the Gower Peninsula. It lies within the UK Parliamentary constituency of Gower.
The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following villages and areas: Cheriton, Horton, Ilston, Knelston, Landimore, Llandewi, Llangennith, Llanmadoc, Llanrhidian, Middleton, Nicholaston, Oldwalls, Overton, Oxwich Green, Oxwich, Parkmill, Penmaen, Penrice, Port Eynon, Reynoldston, Rhossili, Slade, Scurlage.
It also includes the communities of Ilston, " Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton", Llanrhidian Lower, Penrice, Swansea, Port Eynon, Reynoldston and Rhossili.
Neighbouring wards are Penclawdd to the north east, Fairwood to the east and Pennard to the south east.
Gower is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by one member of parliament (MP). Byron Davies is the current MP after winning, by only 27 votes, in the 2015 UK General Election.
Gower may refer to:
Welsh Assembly county constituency
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Gower is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of seven constituencies in the South Wales West electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to seven constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Gower: Journal of the Gower Society is an English-language annual magazine containing articles, photographs, and news relating to the archaeology, history, natural history, and landscape of the Gower Peninsula. It was established in 1948 and is published by the Gower Society. The magazine has been digitized by the Welsh Journals Online project at the National Library of Wales.
Gower is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andre Gower (born 1973), American child actor
- Andrew Gower (born 1978), British video game developer and creator of RuneScape
- Andrew Gower (actor) (born 1989), British actor
- Craig Gower (born 1978), Australian rugby footballer
- David Gower (born 1957), English former cricketer
- David Gower (rugby league) (born 1985), Australian Rugby League player
- David J. Gower, palaeontologist
- Erasmus Gower (1742-1814), Welsh naval officer and colonial governor
- Flynn Gower (born 1972), Australian musician with the rock band Cog
- George Gower (c. 1540–1596), English portrait painter
- H. D. G. Leveson Gower (1873-1954), English cricketer
- Henry Gower, 14th century canonist, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and bishop
- Humphrey Gower (1638–1711), English clergyman and academic
- Iris Gower, pen name of novelist Iris Davies (1935–2010)
- Jessica Gower (born 1977), Australian actress
- John Gower (c. 1330-1403), English poet
- John Gower (Wisconsin politician) (1941-2011), American politician
- Laurence Gower (1913-1967), English lawyer and academic
- Lily Gower (1877–1959), English croquet player
- Luke Gower, Australian musician for rock band Cog and Flynn's brother
- Mark Gower (born 1978), English footballer
- Pauline Gower (1910–1947), British pilot and writer, head of the female branch of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War
- Raymond Gower (1916-1989), Welsh Member of Parliament
- Richard Hall Gower (1768–1833), English mariner, empirical philosopher, nautical inventor, entrepreneur, and humanitarian
- Lord Ronald Gower (1845–1916), British aristocrat, Member of Parliament, sculptor and writer
- Rosalie Gower (1931–2013), Canadian civil servant and activist
- Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet (c. 1605–1672), twice High Sheriff of Yorkshire
Usage examples of "gower".
THE GIRL MADGE CHAPTER X SMALL CAUSES A clock sounded one of the later morning hours of the night as Gower Woodseer stood at his hotel door, having left Fleetwood with a band of revellers.
The plate of meat was brought by Mary Jones with Gower beside her, and a sniffle of her happiness audible.
The moments were of the palpitating order for Gower, although his common sense lectured the wildest of hearts for expecting such a possibility as the presence of his lofty lady here.
Struck by the contrast between the two simultaneous honeymoons, and a vision of the high-spirited mountain girl, seen in this place a young bride seeking her husband, Gower Woodseer could have performed that unphilosophical part.
Under the circumstances, Gower thought such a piece of writing to him magnanimous.
Livia had heard from Gower Woodseer of the reported disappearance of the Countess of Fleetwood and her maid.
Neither Livia nor Gower wondered at the clearing of the mystery, before it went to swell the scandal.
Her obedience was to a higher than a mortal lord: and Gower was touched to the quick through the use of the word.
This official entered presently to Gower, presenting a loaded forehead.
Woodseer thankfully consented to mount his coach-box next day, and astonish Gower with a drop on his head from the skies about the time of the mid-day meal.
As for the earl, Gower inclined to plead hesitatingly, still to plead, on behalf of a nobleman owning his influence and very susceptible to his wisdom, whose echo of a pointed saying nearly equalled the satisfaction bestowed by print.
That fellow, Gower Woodseer, might accuse the husband of virtually lying, if he by his conduct implied her distastefulness or worse.
Mounting the stairs, Gower was moved to let fall a benevolent look on the worried son of fortune.
That day down in Surrey with the grand old bootmaker was one of our days, Gower Woodseer!
He was ignorant of the revenge he had on Gower, whose diction had not been particularly estimable.