Townsend or Townshend may refer to:

Places

United States

  • Camp Townsend, National Guard training base in Peekskill, New York
  • Townsend, Delaware
  • Townsend, Georgia
  • Townsend, Massachusetts, a New England town
  • Townsend (CDP), Massachusetts, the main village in the town
  • Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts, another village in the town
  • Townsend, Montana
  • Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio
  • Townsend Township, Sandusky County, Ohio
  • Townsend, Tennessee
  • Townsend, Wisconsin, a town
  • Townsend (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • Townshend, Vermont, a New England town
  • Townshend (CDP), Vermont, the main village in the town
  • Port Townsend, Washington
  • Port Townsend Bay
  • Port Townsend Film Festival

Canada

  • Townsend Township, Ontario
  • Townsend, Ontario
  • Townsend Lake, Saskatchewan

United Kingdom

  • Townsend, Buckinghamshire
  • Townshend, Cornwall
  • Townsend, Bournemouth, Dorset
  • Townsend, Poulshot, Wiltshire
  • Townsend, Kingswinford, an area at the end of the village of Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Townsend Industrial Estate in Houghton Regis, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire
  • Several other locations in England, and one in Wales

New Zealand

  • Townsend Observatory

Australia

  • Mount Townsend (Snowy Mountains), the second-highest peak in mainland Australia
  • the name of Marburg, Queensland for a brief period during World War 1

Buildings and structures

  • Townsend Central Public School, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
  • Townsend Hotel (Birmingham, Michigan)
  • Townsend Hotel (Casper, Wyoming), a NRHP-listed property
  • Townshend International School, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic
  • Townsend Building (disambiguation), several buildings
  • James W. Townsend House (Orange Springs, Florida)
  • James W. Townsend House (Lake Butler, Florida)

History

  • Townshend Acts, proposed by Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that placed a tax on common import goods and which fomented resentment of the British in the Thirteen Colonies

Science

  • Townsend discharge
  • Townsend (unit)

Other uses

  • Townsend (name)
  • Mount Townsend (disambiguation)
  • Townsend and Townsend and Crew, law firm established in 1860, based in San Francisco, California
  • Townsend Thoresen, past ferry operator, now named P&O Ferries
  • Townsend v. Sain, a US Supreme Court case about habeas corpus and truth serums, decided in 1963
  • Townsends, a historical YouTube channel