Featherstone (disambiguation)
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Featherstone
is a town in West Yorkshire, England.
Featherstone may also refer to one of several places:
or one of these people:
or fictional characters:
or sports clubs
or algorithms
Featherstone
Featherstone is a town and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It lies south-west of Pontefract and has a population of 14,175.Featherstone railway station is on the Pontefract Line.-History:...
is a town in West Yorkshire, England.
Featherstone may also refer to one of several places:
- Featherstone, StaffordshireFeatherstone, StaffordshireFeatherstone is a small village in the district of South Staffordshire, England, near to the border with Wolverhampton. Originally a farming community consisting of a few scattered farms. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was owned by the Clergy of Wolverhampton Church...
, village. - Featherstone, NorthumberlandFeatherstone, NorthumberlandFeatherstone is a village in Northumberland, England about west of Hexham, and about south of Greenhead.- History :Featherstone was one of the castles defending the Tyne Gap...
, village - Featherstone, Zimbabwe
- Featherstone Township, MinnesotaFeatherstone Township, MinnesotaFeatherstone Township is a township in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 785 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
or one of these people:
- William Thornton Featherstone (1886-1944), British clergyman and schoolmaster, vicar of Hook of Surrey
- Angela FeatherstoneAngela FeatherstoneAngela Eileen Featherstone is a Canadian actress. She is best known for playing Chloe, in Friends.Angela Featherstone was a model in the 1980's. She has been an actress since 1992 in films and television. While acting Featherstone created sitcoms she sold to Sony, DreamWorks and NBC television...
(born 1965), Canadian Actress - Jim FeatherstoneJim FeatherstoneJames "Jim"/"Jimmy" J. Featherstone is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, England, and Lancashire, and at club level for Wigan , Warrington, and Belle Vue Rangers, playing at , or , i.e...
, British rugby league footballer - Liza FeatherstoneLiza FeatherstoneLiza Featherstone is an American journalist and journalism professor who writes frequently on labor and student activism for The Nation....
(born 1969), American journalist - Lynne FeatherstoneLynne FeatherstoneLynne Choona Featherstone , is a British Liberal Democrat politician, and the Member of Parliament for Hornsey and Wood Green....
(born 1951), British politician - Matthew FeatherstoneMatthew FeatherstoneMatthew Ross Featherstone is an English born Brazilian cricketer. Featherstone is a right-handed batsman who is the current captain of the Brazil national cricket team.-Domestic career:...
(born 1970), English born Brazilian cricketer - Mickey FeatherstoneMickey FeatherstoneFrancis T. "Mickey" Featherstone is a former Irish American mobster and member of the Westies, an organized crime syndicate from Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan in New York City, led by Jimmy Coonan. Featherstone committed several mob killings before he was convicted in 1986 of a murder he had not...
(born 1947) , American mobster - Mike FeatherstoneMike FeatherstoneMike Featherstone is Director of the Theory, Culture & Society Centre and research professor of sociology and communications. Featherstone was research professor at Nottingham Trent University, UK and is visiting professor in Barcelona, Geneva, Kyoto, Recife, São Paulo, Tokyo and Vancouver...
, academic - Nicky FeatherstoneNicky FeatherstoneNicky Lee Featherstone is an English professional footballer who plays for Football League Two side Hereford United as a midfield. He is also capable of playing as a winger. He has previously played for Hull City and Grimsby Town....
(born 1988), English footballer
or fictional characters:
- Featherstone family in George EliotGeorge EliotMary Anne Evans , better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era...
's MiddlemarchMiddlemarchMiddlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes... - Sir Guthrie Featherstone, Queen's Counsel, Head of Chambers, and Judge in John MortimerJohn MortimerSir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author.-Early life:...
's Rumpole of the BaileyRumpole of the BaileyRumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer which starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an ageing London barrister who defends any and all clients...
or sports clubs
- Featherstone RoversFeatherstone RoversFeatherstone Rovers are a semi-professional rugby league club, based in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England. They currently play in the Championship. The Rovers are one of the last vestiges of "small town teams" that were once common in rugby league during the early twentieth century...
, professional rugby league club from Featherstone, West Yorkshire - Featherstone LionsFeatherstone LionsFeatherstone Lions are an amateur rugby league club from Featherstone, West Yorkshire who play in the Rugby League Conference National Division and the CMS Yorkshire league Division 3. The under-18 team play in the Gilette National Youth League....
, amateur rugby league club from Featherstone, West Yorkshire
or algorithms
- Featherstone's algorithmFeatherstone's algorithmFeatherstone's algorithm is a technique used for computing the effects of forces applied to a structure of joints and links such as a skeleton used in ragdoll physics....
, a technique used for computing the effects of forces applied to a structure of joints and links