Cobham
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Towns or districts
- Cobham, KentCobham, KentCobham is a village and civil parish in the Gravesham District of Kent, England. It is located south of Watling Street, the old road from Dover to London, six miles south-east of Gravesend. The hamlet of Sole Street lies within the parish, which covers an area of 1,240 ha and has a population of...
, England - Cobham, SurreyCobham, SurreyCobham is a town in the Borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, England, about south-west of central London and north of Leatherhead. Elmbridge has been acclaimed by the Daily Mail as the best place to live in the UK, and Cobham is a prosperous part of the London commuter belt...
, England - Cobham, Virginia (disambiguation), multiple places
Other place names
- Cobham Intermediate SchoolCobham Intermediate SchoolCobham Intermediate School is a state intermediate school in North West Christchurch, New Zealand.Cobham was originally named Fendalton Intermediate but that caused confusion between Fendalton Open Air Primary School so the governor-general of New Zealand, Viscount Cobham, allowed Cobham to use his...
- Cobham Sports and Social Club
- Cobham OvalCobham OvalThe Cobham Oval is a cricket ground in Whangarei, New Zealand that stages daytime only first-class matches. It is one of the home grounds for the Northern Districts Knights...
, Whangerei, a cricket pitch used by Northern Districts as one of their home grounds, in the New Zealand domestic leagues
People
British titles- Baron CobhamBaron CobhamThe title Baron Cobham has been created numerous times in the Peerage of England; often multiple creations have been extant simultaneously, especially in the fourteenth century. The earliest creation was in 1313 for Henry de Cobham, from Cobham in the county of Kent...
- Viscount CobhamViscount CobhamViscount Cobham is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1718 for Field Marshal Richard Temple, 1st Baron Cobham and 4th Baronet, of Stowe...
People with surname "Cobham"
- Sir Alan CobhamAlan CobhamSir Alan John Cobham, KBE, AFC was an English aviation pioneer.A member of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, Alan Cobham became famous as a pioneer of long distance aviation. After the war he became a test pilot for the de Havilland aircraft company, and was the first pilot for the newly...
, aviation pioneer - Eric Cobham, an early 18th century pirate
- Billy CobhamBilly CobhamWilliam C. Cobham is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has called Switzerland home since the late 1970s....
(born 1944) jazz musician - Alan Cobham (mathematician), the namesake of the Cobham's thesisCobham's ThesisCobham's thesis, also known as Cobham–Edmonds thesis , asserts that computational problems can be feasibly computed on some computational device only if they can be computed in polynomial time; that is, if they lie in the complexity class P.Formally, to say that a problem can be solved in...
in the computational complexity theory
Aviation
- Cobham plcCobham plcCobham plc is a British manufacturing company based in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index...
, a British aerospace manufacturing company - Cobham Aviation Services Australia, an Australian airline