What is "woodford"

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Woodford was a parliamentary constituency in Essex which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1945 until it was renamed for the 1964 general election.

The constituency's only Member of Parliament for its entire existence was Sir Winston Churchill of the Conservative Party. He represented the seat during his second term as Prime Minister, and continued to hold it until he retired aged 89 at the 1964 general election; it was the last seat he represented in a parliamentary career that spanned over 60 years. He was the Father of the House for the last five years of his tenure in the seat.

Woodford is a historic mansion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Built in 1756, Woodford is the first of the great, opulent, late-Georgian mansions to be erected in the Philadelphia area. Woodford was built on of land as a 1½-story summer residence by William Coleman, a wealthy merchant and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Upon Coleman's death in 1769, the house was sold to Alexander Barclay, a Quaker who served as His Majesty's Customs Comptroller for the port of Philadelphia.

Upon Barclay's death in 1771, the house was bought by his brother-in-law, David Franks, who in 1772 added a second story and a kitchen wing, enlarging the house to almost its present size.

In 1778, Franks, a staunch loyalist, was arrested and ordered to leave. He took his family to New York, and transferred the property to Thomas Paschall in settlement of a debt. Paschall is believed never to have lived at the house, but rented it out. He sold it to Isaac Wharton in 1793.

In 1869, the city bought Woodford from Wharton's heirs to add to Fairmount Park. The house served as the home of the Park's Chief Engineer and Supervisor, and later, in 1912, as the Park Guard headquarters and traffic court.

The building was restored, commencing in 1927, and in 1930, it was opened to the public as a house museum, which it remains today. It houses, under the direction of the Naomi Wood Trust, the Naomi Wood collection of antique household goods, including Colonial furniture, unusual clocks, and English delftware.

Woodford was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1967. It is a contributing property of the Fairmount Park Historic District.

Woodford is a surname originally referring to places located near a river crossing in a forest.

It may refer to:

• Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford (1821–1887), pioneering historian of Freemasonry
• Field Marshal Sir Alexander George Woodford (1782–1870), senior British Army officer and colonial administrator
• Sir Charles Morris Woodford (1852–1927), naturalist and colonial official in the Solomon Islands
• Charles W. Woodford (1931–2009), American politician
• George Woodford (1915–1966), English footballer with Norwich City and Southampton
• Jack Woodford (1894–1971), American author
• Kevin Woodford (born 1950), British TV chef and actor
• Michael Woodford, executive, former President of Olympus Corporation
• Michael Woodford, economist (born 1955), American macroeconomist and monetary theorist
• Michael Woodford, Jr. (born 1981), American hockey player
• Neil Woodford (born 1960), British fund manager
• Nina Woodford, Swedish song writer
• Sir Ralph James Woodford (1784–1828), Governor of Trinidad 1813-1828
• William Woodford (politician) (1858–1944), Canadian politician from Newfoundland
• William Woodford (1734–1780), American general
• William Woodford , better known as William of Woodford, a medieval cleric

Woodford is a historic home located at Simons Corner, Richmond County, Virginia. It dates to the mid-18th century, and is a small 1 1/2-story, three-bay, vernacular brick dwelling. It features a clipped gable roof and exterior end chimneys. The house was restored in the 1930s. At that time, a 1 1/2-story frame wing and porch were added.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.