Welland
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Places

  • River Welland
    River Welland
    The River Welland is a river in the east of England, some long. It rises in the Hothorpe Hills, at Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire, then flows generally northeast to Market Harborough, Stamford and Spalding, to reach The Wash near Fosdyke. For much of its length it forms the county boundary between...

     in the east of England
  • Welland, Worcestershire
    Welland, Worcestershire
    Welland is a village and a civil parish in the administrative District of Malvern Hills in the county of Worcestershire, England. It is about from the town of Malvern and 15 miles from the city of Worcester...

    , a village in England
  • Welland River
    Welland River
    The Welland River is a river in the Niagara Region of southern Ontario which flows from its headwaters south of Hamilton, Ontario to empty into the Niagara River near the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario. It drains an area of 880 km²....

     in Ontario, Canada, named after its English counterpart
  • Welland Canal
    Welland Canal
    The Welland Canal is a ship canal in Canada that extends from Port Weller, Ontario, on Lake Ontario, to Port Colborne, Ontario, on Lake Erie. As a part of the St...

    , named after the Canadian river
  • Welland (electoral district)
    Welland (electoral district)
    Welland is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1988, and since 2004. Its population in 2006 was 112,875....

    , named after the city in Canada
  • Welland, South Australia
    Welland, South Australia
    Welland is an industrial suburb of Adelaide, located in the City of Charles Sturt local government area. It is around 5km west northwest of the city centre.-References:...

    , a suburb of Adelaide in Australia

People

  • Colin Welland
    Colin Welland
    Colin Welland is a British actor and screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his script for Chariots of Fire ,,,....

    , British actor
  • Mark Welland
    Mark Welland
    Sir Mark Edward Welland FRS FREng, is a professor and the head of the Cambridge University Nanoscience Centre. He started his career in nanotechnology at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, U.S., where he was part of the team that developed one of the first scanning tunneling microscopes.Having...

    , head of the Nanoscience Centre at Cambridge University

Other

  • The Rolls-Royce Welland
    Rolls-Royce Welland
    -Bibliography:* Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London. Studio Editions Ltd, 1989. ISBN 0-517-67964-7-External links:*...

    , an early turbojet named after the English river
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