A municipal borough of south-central England on the Thames River southwest of London. Windsor Castle has been a royal residence since the time of William the Conqueror. Population: 29,700.
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Windsor (wĭn'zər), town (1991 pop. 31,544), Windsor and Maidenhead, S central England, on the Thames River. There is some light industry and printing. The town is a popular tourist destination; the Danish toymaker Lego opened a Legoland amusement park there in 1996. In Elizabethan times about 70 inns enlivened Windsor. Christopher Wren designed the town hall, and Grinling Gibbons did much of the wood carving in the Church of St. John the Baptist.
The town's importance derives from Windsor Castle, the chief residence of English rulers since William I. The castle was improved and rebuilt by successive sovereigns. Henry II erected the Round Tower, and Edward IV began the construction of St. George's Chapel, one of the most splendid churches in England, where the Knights of the Garter are installed with medieval ceremony. In the chapel are buried several of England's kings. Some vaults are used to store art treasures, national archives, and museum collections.
The modern castle, which contains about 1,000 rooms and occupies 13 acres (5 hectares), consists of three "wards"-the upper, middle, and lower. In 1992 a fire in the upper ward destroyed or damaged more than 100 rooms; restoration was completed in 1997. The castle proper lies in the Home Park, and beyond it, separated by the tree-lined Long Walk, is the Great Park. In Frogmore, the royal mausoleum, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are buried. On the castle grounds is a large lake named Virginia Water.
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Windsor may refer to:
- Windsor (automobile), defunct American automobile maker
- Windsor (typeface), serif typeface used in the credits of Woody Allen films
- Windsor cap, soft men's cap
- Windsor chair, type of chair with a solid wood seat and turned legs
- Windsor knot, type of knot used to tie a necktie
- Windsor Report, report on challenges to unity in the Anglican Communion issued in 2004
- Windsor core, a version of Athlon 64 CPU
- Windsor Bicycles USA, a bicycle company
Places
Australia
- Windsor, New South Wales
- Windsor, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane
- Windsor, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
Canada
- Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Windsor, Nova Scotia
- Windsor, Ontario
- Windsor, Quebec
New Zealand
- Windsor, New Zealand, a township in North Otago
- New Windsor, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland
South Africa
- Windsor, Gauteng, a suburb of Randburg
United Kingdom
- Windsor, Berkshire, on the western outskirts of London
- Windsor Castle, located here
- Windsor (UK Parliament constituency), the constituency centred around this town
- Old Windsor, a village near Windsor
- Windsor Free Festival, event held in nearby Windsor Great Park
- Windsor, Belfast
- Windsor, Cornwall
- Windsor, Lincolnshire
United States
(by state)
- South Windsor, Connecticut
- Windsor, California
- Windsor, Colorado
- East Windsor, Connecticut
- Windsor, Connecticut, the first town of this name in the United States
- Windsor Locks, Connecticut
- Windsor (Port Penn, Delaware), listed on the NRHP in Delaware
- Windsor, Florida
- Windsor, Mercer County, Illinois
- Windsor, Shelby County, Illinois
- Windsor Heights, Iowa
- Windsor, Kentucky
- Windsor, Maine
- New Windsor, Maryland
- Windsor, Massachusetts
- Windsor, Missouri
- Windsor, New Hampshire
- East Windsor Township, New Jersey
- West Windsor Township, New Jersey
- Windsor, New Jersey
- New Windsor, New York
- Windsor (town), New York
- Windsor, North Carolina
- Windsor, Pennsylvania
- Windsor Township, Pennsylvania
- Windsor, South Carolina
- Windsor, Vermont
- Windsor County, Vermont
- Windsor, Virginia
- Windsor (Cascade, Virginia), listed on the NRHP in Virginia
- Windsor Heights, West Virginia
- Windsor, Wisconsin
People
Surname
- House of Windsor, the present British Royal Family
- Lady Amelia Windsor, 26th in line of succession to the British throne
- Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor, English nobleman
- Barbara Windsor, British actress
- Bobby Windsor, Welsh rugby union player
- Claire Windsor, American actress
- Frank Windsor, British television actor
- Lord Frederick Windsor, member of the British royal family
- Sophie Winkleman (Lady Frederick Windsor) wife of Lord Freddie
- Lady Gabriella Windsor, reporter, member of the British royal family
- Gerard Windsor, Australian author
- Gloria Windsor, American model
- Jason Windsor, American baseball player
- Keri Windsor, American pornographic actress
- Lady Louise Windsor, granddaughter to Queen Elizabeth II
- Marie Windsor, American actress
- Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor, member of the British royal family
- Lord Nicholas Windsor, member of the British royal family, and his son Albert
- Peter Windsor, British journalist and reporter
- Richard Windsor, American explorer
- Lady Rose Windsor, member of the British royal family
- Roger Windsor, British labor union leader and former chief executive of the National Union of Mineworkers
- Tony Windsor, Australian independent politician
Title
- The Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
- Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, wife of the Duke
- The title Duke of Windsor
- Baron Windsor
Given name
- Windsor Davies, English actor
Structures
- Windsor Castle, one of the homes of the monarch of Britain
- Windsor House, a skyscraper in Northern Ireland
- Windsor Park, a football stadium which is home to Linfield F.C. and the Northern Ireland football team
- Windsor Tower, a skyscraper in Madrid, Spain, which was destroyed in a fire in 2005
- Windsor railway station, several places
- Windsor Hotel (disambiguation), several places
Transport
- USS Windsor, two ships by this name serving during WWII
- Windsor (ship), a ship wrecked off the coast of Australia in 1816
- HMCS Windsor, a Canadian submarine
- Windsor class attack transport, a class of US Navy ships used to transport troops and their equipment
Other uses
- Brown Windsor soup
- Ford Windsor engine, V8 engine produced by Ford
- Red Windsor cheese, type of English cheddar cheese
- The Merry Wives of Windsor, comedy by William Shakespeare
See also
- Winsor
- Windsor Historic District (disambiguation)
- Windsor Hotel (disambiguation)
- Windsor Station, several places
- All pages beginning with Windsor
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