Crawley (disambiguation)
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Places
- Crawley DownCrawley DownCrawley Down is a village in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. There is one church, one school, and a number of social groups. It lies seven miles from Gatwick Airport. Nearest railway stations are Three Bridges and East Grinstead...
– a settlement in West SussexWest SussexWest Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex , Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex has been divided into East and West since the 12th century, and obtained separate county councils in 1888, but it remained a single ceremonial county until 1974 and the coming...
, part of WorthWorth, West SussexThe civil parish of Worth, which includes the villages of Copthorne, West Sussex and Crawley Down, covers an area of and has a population of 9888 persons. The ecclesiastical parish was one of the larger West Sussex parishes, encompassing the entire area along the West Sussex/Surrey border between...
civil parish - Crawley, HampshireCrawley, HampshireCrawley is a small village in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. It is a few miles from the county town of Winchester. It is a civil parish within the City of Winchester local government district. The village is the location of Crawley Court, currently the headquarters of broadcast company Arqiva....
- Crawley, OxfordshireCrawley, OxfordshireHailey is a village and civil parish beside the River Windrush about north of Witney, Oxfordshire.-History:Uphill Farm was built in the 17th century. The Church of England chapel of Saint Peter was built in 1837 as a chapel of ease for the parish church at Hailey, Oxfordshire...
- Crawley, Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaCrawley is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Subiaco.The earlier name of the locality was Crawley Park.It is home to the University of Western Australia, the state's oldest and most prestigious university...
- Crawley, West Sussex
- Crawley, West VirginiaCrawley, West VirginiaCrawley is an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. Crawley is located on U.S. Route 60 southeast of Rupert. Crawley has a post office with ZIP code 24931....
- Crawley, Sri Lanka
- Crawley GreenCrawley GreenCrawley Green is a ward in the southern part of Luton near to London Luton Airport. The area was historically owned by the Crawley Family, owners of the now demolished Stockwood House and Stockwood Park....
- North CrawleyNorth CrawleyNorth Crawley is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes and ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. It is located near the border with Bedfordshire, about three and a half miles east of Newport Pagnell....
People
- Aidan CrawleyAidan CrawleyAidan Merivale Crawley, MBE was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician...
, British politician, journalist, and writer, of the landed gentry, related to the Crawley-Boevey BaronetsCrawley-Boevey BaronetsThe Barrow, later Crawley-Boevey Baronetcy, of Highgrove in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 22 January 1784 for Charles Barrow, Member of Parliament for Gloucester, with remainder to Thomas Crawley-Boevey, who succeeded as second Baronet... - Ben CrawleyBen CrawleyBen Crawley is a retired American soccer player. He was a member of the United States teams at both the 1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship and 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship but spent most of his professional career with lower division teams. He played five games in Major League Soccer with D.C...
, American soccer player - Bill CrawleyBill CrawleyWilliam B. Crawley, Jr. is currently a Distinguished Professor of History and Historian at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia....
, history professor - Charles CrawleyCharles CrawleyCharles Crawley was an English cricketer. He played one first-class match for Essex in 1929. Crawley was born in Brandon and died in Sunderland....
, English cricketer - Christine Crawley, Baroness CrawleyChristine Crawley, Baroness CrawleyChristine Mary Crawley, Baroness Crawley FRSA is a British politician for the Labour Party.-Early life and career:Crawley was educated at the Notre Dame Roman Catholic Girls' School in Birmingham before going to Digby Stuart College to train as a teacher. After graduation she began teaching...
, British politician - Cosmo CrawleyCosmo CrawleyCosmo Stafford Crawley was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a medium pace bowler.Crawley made his first-class debut during in the 1923 County Championship season for Hampshire against Oxford University. This was Crwaley's only match for the county...
, British cricketer - David CrawleyDavid CrawleyDavid Crawley is a Gaelic football player for Dundalk GAA club Sean O'Mahony's. Crawley is a retired Irish football player who played for Dundalk and Shelbourne during a 12 year long League of Ireland career. Crawley was played a left back and was renowned for his excellent crossing...
, Irish footballer - F. R. CrawleyF. R. CrawleyFrank Radford "Budge" Crawley, OC was an Academy Award winning film producer from Canada.-Career:Crawley was known for making avant-garde films with his wife Judith Crawley...
, Academy Award winning producer from Cananda - Ian CrawleyIan CrawleyIan Crawley was an English footballer. He played for a number of clubs throughout a long career and holds the distinction of having scored winning goals in two different finals at Wembley Stadium....
, English footballer - Jacqueline CrawleyJacqueline CrawleyJacqueline N. Crawley is an American behavioral neuroscientist and an expert on rodent behavioral analysis. She currently is chief of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience in the intramural program of the National Institute of Mental Health...
, American neuroscientist - Jim CrawleyJim CrawleyJim Crawley was the third head football coach for the Frostburg State University Bobcats in Frostburg, Maryland and he held that position for seven seasons, from 1968 until 1974. His overall coaching record at Frostburg was 33 wins, 28 losses, and 3 ties...
, American football coach - John CrawleyJohn CrawleyJohn Paul Crawley is a retired English professional cricketer, who represented England in 37 Test matches. He is regarded alongside his near contemporaries Graeme Hick and Mark Ramprakash as a hugely talented player who failed to realise his full potential at international level.Crawley is a...
, English cricketer - John Crawley (footballer)John Crawley (footballer)John Crawley is a former football player. He is currently the goalkeeping coach for Australian A-League club the Central Coast Mariners.-Biography:...
, Australian footballer - Leonard CrawleyLeonard CrawleyLeonard George Crawley was an English sportsman and later journalist. He was most accomplished at golf and cricket as detailed below, but also played tennis to a very high standard and was an excellent ice-skater, a good rackets player and a fine shot.-Golf:Crawley was a very accomplished golfer,...
, English sportsman and journalist - Marita CrawleyMarita CrawleyMarita Georgina Phillips , a British songwriter and playwright, was born the third daughter of Lt.-Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips and his wife, Georgina Wernher, who was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt, by his wife Countess Anastasia de Torby...
, playwright, widowed daughter-in-law of Aidan Crawley (above) - Michael CrawleyMichael CrawleyMichael J. Crawley, FRS is a British ecologist and professor of biology at Imperial College London. He is based at Silwood Park campus near Ascot, Berkshire. Crawley's research focuses on the subject of plant ecology...
, biology professor - Stephen CrawleyStephen CrawleyStephen Crawley was a Scottish cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler...
, Scottish cricketer - Sylvia CrawleySylvia CrawleySylvia Crawley is a former collegiate and professional women's basketball forward, licensed minister and motivational speaker...
, American basketball player - Tyrone CrawleyTyrone CrawleyTyrone Crawley is a former professional boxer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.During his professional boxing career he was known for his hand and foot speed, and the ability to switch effortlessly from the orthodox stance to the southpaw stance...
, professional boxer - William CrawleyWilliam Crawley-Television presenter:He recently presented Blueprint, a three-part television natural history series, which ran from 31 March 2008, as the centre-piece of the most ambitious multi-platform broadcasting project in the history of BBC Northern Ireland. The Blueprint season united TV, radio and online...
, BBC journalist
Other
- Crawley (UK Parliament constituency)Crawley (UK Parliament constituency)Crawley is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...
- Crawley Town F.C.Crawley Town F.C.Crawley Town Football Club is an English football club based in Crawley, West Sussex. They won the title of the Football Conference, by a record 15 point margin on second place, and with it promotion to The Football League, in April 2011.-1896–2009:...
, football club - The Crawley Family, A fictitious aristocratic family in the British TV Period Drama Downton AbbeyDownton AbbeyDownton Abbey is a British television period drama series, produced by NBC Universal-owned British media company Carnival Films for the ITV network. The series is set during the late Edwardian era and the First World War on the fictional estate of Downton Abbey in Yorkshire, and features an...