Ravenswood
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Film and literature

  • Ravenswood (film), a 2006 Australian thriller, starring Stephen Moyer, Travis Fimmel and Teresa Palmer
  • Ravenswood, the name of a Swedish forest in Beowulf
    Beowulf
    Beowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single...

    , the setting of a battle between Geats and Swedes
  • Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor, a book about a labor strike, by Kate Bronfenbrenner and Tom Juravich
  • Ravenswood Castle, a fictional setting in the Scottish Lowlands, featured in Sir Walter Scott's 1819 classic, The Bride of Lammermoor
    The Bride of Lammermoor
    The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the reign of Queen Anne . The novel tells of a tragic love affair between Lucy Ashton and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood. Scott indicated the plot was based on an actual incident...

    ; also featured in Gaetano Donizetti's 1835 operatic adaptation, Lucia di Lammermoor
    Lucia di Lammermoor
    Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor....


Places

Australia
  • Ravenswood, Queensland
    Ravenswood, Queensland
    Ravenswood is a small mining town in Queensland, Australia. The town is located approximately south of Mingela, and about from Charters Towers. At the 2006 census, Ravenswood had a population of 191....

    , a town
  • Ravenswood, Tasmania
    Ravenswood, Tasmania
    -Facilities:Ravenswood has the following facilities:*Two shopping centres*BP service station*Police station*Fire station*Skate park*Hotel*Over 50's club*Community health centre*Community centre*Pharmacy*Library*Bakery*Neighbourhood house...

    , suburb of Launceston, Tasmania
  • Ravenswood, Western Australia
    Ravenswood, Western Australia
    Ravenswood in a small town in the Peel region of Western Australia.The town is located along Pinjarra Road and on the banks of the Murray River...

    , a town
  • Ravenswood School for Girls
    Ravenswood School for Girls
    Ravenswood School for Girls is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for girls, situated in Gordon, an Upper North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , a day and boarding independent school for girls in Gordon, New South Wales


New Zealand
  • Ravenswood Road, Dunedin, a road in St Clair, a suburb of Dunedin


United Kingdom
  • Ravenswood, Scottish Borders
  • Ravenswood, West Sussex
  • Ravenswood, Ipswich
    Ravenswood, Ipswich
    Ravenswood is a district within Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. It is sited on the old Ipswich Airport to the south-east of the town.The area is one experiencing rapid growth in housing numbers from private housing developers...

  • Ravenswood, Berkshire
    Ravenswood, Berkshire
    Ravenswood is a modern village in the English county of Berkshire, part of the civil parish of Wokingham Without, adjoining Crowthorne.The settlement was established in 1953 as a self-contained environment for disabled children...

     (alias Bigshot), an estate in Wokingham Without, Berkshire
  • Ravens Wood School, Keston
    Keston
    Keston is a part suburban, part rural area of the London Borough of Bromley, England. It lies on the edge of Hayes Common, to the northwest of Greater London's border with Kent.-History:...

    , Bromley
    Bromley
    Bromley is a large suburban town in south east London, England and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Bromley. It was historically a market town, and prior to 1963 was in the county of Kent and formed the administrative centre of the Municipal Borough of Bromley...



United States
(by state)
  • Ravenswood (Livermore, California), listed on the NRHP in California
  • The Ravenswood
    The Ravenswood
    The Ravenswood is a historic apartment building at 570 North Rossmore Avenue in Hollywood, California. Designed by architect Max Maltzman and built by Paramount Pictures in 1930, it is considered a landmark Art Deco masterpiece. It has been declared a Historic-Cultural Monument The Ravenswood is a...

    , Hollywood, California, a 1930s landmark apartment building, longtime home of Mae West
    Mae West
    Mae West was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades....

  • Ravenswood Winery in Sonoma County, California
  • Ravenswood, Chicago
    Ravenswood, Chicago
    Ravenswood is a neighborhood located in the north side of the city of Chicago, Illinois in the Lincoln Square Community Area . According to the Realtors Association, Ravenswood's approximate area is bordered by the north at Foster Avenue, Montrose Avenue on the south, by the west at the Chicago...

    , Illinois, a neighborhood
    • Ravenswood (Metra)
      Ravenswood (Metra)
      Ravenswood is a railroad station on the North Side of Chicago serving Metra's Union Pacific/North Line. It is located at 4800 North Ravenswood Avenue, just south of West Lawrence Avenue...

      , Chicago, Illinois, a railroad station
    • The Ravenswood, former name of the Brown Line
      Brown Line (Chicago Transit Authority)
      The Brown Line starts out in northwest Chicago, at the Kimball and Lawrence Avenue terminal in Albany Park, where there is a storage yard and servicing shop for the trains to the east of the passenger station...

  • Ravenswood (Indianapolis)
    Ravenswood (Indianapolis)
    Ravenswood is located north of Broad Ripple Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, between 71st and 75th Street, and between Keystone Avenue and White River. In 1913, a flood caused the river channel to change its course slightly affecting the Beach near the Yacht Club.In the early 1900's,...

    , Indiana, a neighborhood along the White River
  • Ravenswood (Bunceton, Missouri)
    Ravenswood (Bunceton, Missouri)
    Ravenswood in rural Cooper County, Missouri was built in 1880 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975....

    , listed on the NRHP in Missouri
  • Ravenswood, Queens
    Ravenswood, Queens
    Ravenswood is the name for the strip of land bordering the East River in Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The area is part of Queens Community Board 1.-History:...

    , New York, a neighborhood
  • Ravenswood Generating Station, including "Big Allis
    Big Allis
    Big Allis, formally known as Ravenswood No. 3, is a giant electric power generator originally commissioned by Consolidated Edison Company and built by the Allis-Chalmers Corporation in 1965...

    ", Long Island City, NY, USA
  • Ravenswood (Brentwood, Tennessee), listed on the NRHP in Tennessee
  • Ravenswood, West Virginia
    Ravenswood, West Virginia
    Ravenswood is a city in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 4,031 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Ravenswood is located at , along the Ohio River at the mouth of Sandy Creek....


See also

  • Ravenwood (disambiguation)
  • Ravenswood Historic District (disambiguation)
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