Upper Wentworth Street is an Upper City (mountain) arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It starts off at Concession Street

Concession Street (Hamilton, Ontario)

Concession Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at Belvidere Avenue, just West of Sam Lawrence Park, and extends eastward past Mountain Drive Park on Upper Gage Avenue and ends shortly thereafter at East 43rd Street.Note: East of East 43rd Street the road...

 in the north and extends southward past Rymal Road. It is a two-way street throughout.

History

Named Upper Wentworth Street because it is in alignment with Wentworth Street

Wentworth Street (Hamilton, Ontario)

Wentworth Street, is a Lower City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at the base of the Niagara Escarpment on Charlton Avenue East just before the CP lines as a two-way street for 2-blocks up past Cumberland Avenue up to Rutherford Avenue where it then switches over to a...

 in the Lower City Hamilton. Wentworth Street is named after Sir John Wentworth

John Wentworth (governor)

Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet was the British colonial governor of New Hampshire at the time of the American Revolution. He was later also Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia.-Early life:...

, lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

, from 1792 to 1808.

Landmarks

Note: Listing of Landmarks from North to South.

• Royal Bank
  Royal Bank
  The terms Royal Bank, Banque Royale, Banco Real can connote several different things,* Royal Bank * Royal Bank of Canada** Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, a subsidiary of RBC* Royal Bank of Scotland...
  
   building, (on Concession Street)
• George L. Armstrong Public School
• Fenworth Place
• Mohawk Garden
• Lime Ridge Mall
  Lime Ridge Mall
  Lime Ridge is a two-level indoor shopping mall in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on Upper Wentworth Street. It is the largest mall complex in the city, a super regional shopping centre with over 213 stores including department store anchors The Bay and Sears, and five large non-majors: Home...
  
  , (Hamilton's largest Mall complex)
  • Radio stations North of the Mall:
  • AM 820 - CHAM
    CHAM (AM)
    CHAM is a Canadian radio station in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned and operated by Astral Media, and transmits from towers located in Binbrook...
    
    , country
    Country music
    Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
    
     http://www.820cham.com
  • AM 1150 - CKOC
    CKOC (AM)
    CKOC is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 1150 AM in Hamilton, Ontario. The station airs an oldies format branded as Oldies 1150 and is owned by Astral Media.- Early History :...
    
    , oldies
    Oldies
    Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....
    
     http://www.oldies1150.com/
  • FM 102.9 - CKLH
    CKLH-FM
    CKLH-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 102.9 FM in Hamilton, Ontario. The station broadcasts an adult contemporary format branded as 102.9 K-Lite FM....
    
    , ("K-Lite FM"), adult contemporary http://www.k-litefm.com/
• Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  The Lincoln Alexander Parkway, officially nicknamed "The Linc", is a municipal expressway in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario. Located on the Hamilton mountain, atop the Niagara Escarpment...
  
  , "The LINC"
• Rymal Square (shopping/ commercial)
• Hamilton Regional Police
  Hamilton Police Service (Ontario)
  The Hamilton Police Service, formerly The Hamilton Wentworth Regional Police, is the local police service for the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. This agency is the primary service charged with the duty of enforcing the Criminal Code of Canada in the City of Hamilton. The organization became a...
  
   (South mountain station)

Communities

Note: Listing of neighbourhoods from North to South.

• Inch Park/ Eastmount, Upper Wentworth cuts through these two neighbourhoods
• Hillpark/ Burkhome, Upper Wentworth cuts through these two neighbourhoods
• Bruleville/ Thorner, Upper Wentworth cuts through these two neighbourhoods
• Crerar/ Rushdale, Upper Wentworth cuts through these two neighbourhoods
• Barnstown/ Butler, Upper Wentworth cuts through these two neighbourhoods

Roads that are parallel with Upper Wentworth Street

Note: Listing of Roads from West to East.

• Wilson Street (Ancaster)
• Highway 403
  Highway 403 (Ontario)
  King's Highway 403, also known as Highway 403, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that travels between Woodstock and Mississauga, branching off from and reuniting with Highway 401 at both ends and travelling south of it through Hamilton and Mississauga. It is concurrent...
  
  
• Upper Paradise Road
  Upper Paradise Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Paradise Road is an Upper City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off just north of Scenic Drive by Cliffview Park and extends southward where it ends just south of Rymal Road beside Carpenter Park...
  
  
• Garth Street
  Garth Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Garth Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Beckett Drive, a mountain-access road in the north, and extends southward where it ends at Twenty Road just east of the Glancaster Golf and Country Club...
  
  
• West 5th Street
  West 5th Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  West 5th Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off in the north at James Mountain Road, a mountain-access road, and extends southward past Rymal Road where it ends just south of Christopher Drive...
  
  
• Upper James Street
  Upper James Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper James Street, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at the Claremont Access, a mountain-access road in the north, and extends southward towards the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport where it then changes its name to the Hamilton Port Dover Plain...
  
  
• Upper Wellington Street
  Upper Wellington Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Wellington Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at the Jolley Cut, a mountain-access road to the north, beside Sam Lawrence Park and extends southward past Rymal Road where it ends at the Mount Hamilton Cemetery...
  
  
• Upper Wentworth Street
• Upper Sherman Avenue
  Upper Sherman Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Sherman Avenue is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off north of Concession Street at Mountain Brow Avenue and extends southward where it ends at Rymal Road. It is a two-way street throughout.-History:...
  
  
• Upper Gage Avenue
  Upper Gage Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Gage Avenue is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Concession Street in front of Mountain Drive Park and works its way southward and ends just past Rymal Road beside Broughton West Park 2...
  
  
• Upper Ottawa Street
  Upper Ottawa Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Ottawa Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Mountain Brow Boulevard in the north and extends southward where it ends just past Rymal Road at the South Hamilton Industrial Park...
  
  
• Nebo Road
  Nebo Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Nebo Road is an Upper City road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Stone Church Road East and extends southward where it ends at Chippewa Road East, just north of Lake Niapenco at the Binbrook Conservation Area....
  
  
• Upper Kenilworth Avenue
  Upper Kenilworth Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Kenilworth Avenue is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Fennell Avenue in the north and extends southward just past Limeridge Road where it ends north of the Lincoln M...
  
  
• Mountain Brow Boulevard
• Upper Centennial Parkway
  Upper Centennial Parkway (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Centennial Parkway is a mountain-access road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Also known as Hamilton Highway 20, the road starts off at Centennial Parkway in the Lower City beside Battlefield Park and extends south up the Niagara Escarpment and southward across the mountain where it ends at...
  
  

Roads that cross Upper Wentworth Street

Note #1: Listing of streets from North to South.

Note #2: Prior to the completion of the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway in 1997, Upper James, Upper Wentworth & Upper Gage crossed Limeridge Road and today they no longer do. Sections of Limeridge Road were cut off and removed at the above 3 locations to make way for the Expressway's exit ramps. The Expressway is South of Limeridge Road and runs parallel with it.

• Concession Street
  Concession Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Concession Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at Belvidere Avenue, just West of Sam Lawrence Park, and extends eastward past Mountain Drive Park on Upper Gage Avenue and ends shortly thereafter at East 43rd Street.Note: East of East 43rd Street the road...
  
  
• Queensdale Avenue East
• Fennell Avenue
  Fennell Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Fennell Avenue, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts of just West Garth Street on the West mountain and is a two-way street throughout that extends eastward and ends at Mountain Brow Boulevard, a road that wraps around the edge of the Niagara Escarpment on...
  
   East
• Mohawk Road
  Mohawk Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Mohawk Road, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is a two-way street throughout that starts just West of Highway 403 & Meadowlands and travels eastward linking up with the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway. Mohawk Road east of Highway 403 resumes again in front of Iroquoia...
  
   East
• Limeridge Road East
• Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  The Lincoln Alexander Parkway, officially nicknamed "The Linc", is a municipal expressway in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario. Located on the Hamilton mountain, atop the Niagara Escarpment...
  
  
• Stone Church Road
  Stone Church Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Stone Church Road, is a two-way Upper City east-west arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at Golf Links Road, just east of Meadowlands, and goes across the Escarpment and ends at Upper Mount Albion Road....
  
   East
• ; Rymal Road East

External links

• Google Maps: Upper Wentworth Street (Hybrid)