Whitehaven
| Whitehaven | |||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 33 ′ N , 3 ° 35 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 25,500 | ||
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| Post town | WHITEHAVEN | ||
| ZIP code section | CA28 | ||
| prefix | 01946 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | North West England | ||
| Shire county | Cumbria | ||
| District | Copeland | ||
| British Parliament | Copeland | ||
Whitehaven is a port city in Cumbria in the north-west of England , United Kingdom . It is the seat of the Borough of Copeland . Whitehaven has around 25,500 residents. Near the city is the Sellafield nuclear complex .
history
Whitehaven was attacked by the American Navy under the leadership of John Paul Jones in the American Revolutionary War in 1778 . The rectangular map of Whitehaven ( Georgian architecture ) served as a model for the construction of Manhattan .
Famous citizens
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was kidnapped here as a child by a nanny.
- George Washington's (1732–1799) paternal grandmother, Mildred Gale b. Warner married the second marriage in 1700 to the Whitehaven tobacco merchant George Gale , who founded the city of Whitehaven (Maryland) in the USA after her death . She was buried in St Nicholas' Church in Whitehaven in 1701 .
Others
Whitehaven is also the name of a town near Memphis , the last residence of Elvis Presley , Graceland .
Web links
Commons : Whitehaven - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
