Southwell
Southwell (sŭTH'əl, south'əl), town (1991 pop. 61,200), Nottinghamshire, central England. It includes the small civil parish of Southwell, which since 1884 has been the cathedral town of Nottinghamshire. Charles I surrendered to the Scottish commissioners at the King's Arms (now Saracen's Head) Inn in 1646. The cathedral, begun c.1110, is on the site of a church said to have been founded in the 7th cent.
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Southwell may mean the following towns in England:
- Southwell, Dorset
- Southwell, Nottinghamshire
- Southwell Minster, historic cathedral
- Southwell Racecourse, horse racing venue located near Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire
- Southwell Rural District, a rural district in Nottinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1974
- Southwell School, a co-educational independent preparatory school in Hamilton, New Zealand
Southwell can also be a surname:
- Alfredo Salazar Southwell (1913–1937), aviator
- Charles Southwell (1814–1860), journalist
- David Southwell (born 1971), author
- Hugo Southwell (born 1980), rugby player
- Paul Southwell (1913–1979), Premier of Dominica and Saint Kitts-Nevis
- Richard V. Southwell (1888–1970), mathematician specializing in applied mechanics
- Richard Southwell (disambiguation)
- Robert Southwell (disambiguation)
- Viscount Southwell, a title in the Peerage of Ireland
- Southwell, assumed name of Nathaniel Bacon (Jesuit)
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