Wilmington
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Wilmington may refer to:
Places
[edit]Australia
[edit]- Wilmington, South Australia, a town and locality
- District Council of Wilmington, a former local government area
- Wilmington railway line, a former railway line
United Kingdom
[edit]- Wilmington, Devon
- Wilmington, East Sussex
- Wilmington, Kent
- Wilmington, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
- Wilmington, Somerset
- Lordship of Wilmington, an ancient manor in Kent in the parish of Sellindge
United States
[edit]- Wilmington, Los Angeles, California, a neighborhood
- Wilmington, Delaware
- Wilmington Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware
- Wilmington, Greene County, Illinois
- Wilmington, Will County, Illinois
- Wilmington, Indiana
- Wilmington, Kansas
- Wilmington, Massachusetts
- Wilmington station (MBTA), commuter rail station
- Wilmington High School (Massachusetts)
- Wilmington Township, Minnesota
- Wilmington, Minnesota
- Wilmington, New York, a town
- Wilmington (CDP), New York, the main hamlet in the town
- Wilmington, North Carolina
- Wilmington, Ohio
- Wilmington Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
- Wilmington Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
- Wilmington, Vermont, a New England town
- Wilmington (CDP), Vermont, the main village in the town
- Wilmington, Virginia
- Wilmington Island, Georgia
- Wilmington Manor, Delaware
- New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, in Lawrence County
- South Wilmington, Illinois, in Grundy County
People
[edit]- Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673–1743), British Prime Minister, 1742–1743, who gave his name to many of the places called Wilmington
- Earl of Wilmington, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1730 for Spencer Compton
- Lord of Wilmington, an abbreviation of Lord of the Manor of Wilmington, a feudal dignity relating to land originally granted under an Anglo-Saxon charter of 700 C.E.
Educational institutions
[edit]- Wilmington College (Ohio), Wilmington, Ohio
- Wilmington University, New Castle, Delaware
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina
Other uses
[edit]- USS Wilmington, any of several ships in the United States fleet
- Wilmington insurrection of 1898
- Wilmington plc, a British publishing and business information company
- Wilmington Subdivision, a railroad line in North Carolina