Rockingham

Rockingham

Rockingham can refer to several different things:

People

* Marquess of Rockingham, a British title of nobility whose holders included:
** Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who was the eighth Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Places

;United Kingdom
* Rockingham, Northamptonshire, England
**Rockingham Castle
**Rockingham Forest
**Rockingham Motor Speedway

;Australia
* Rockingham, Western Australia
** Electoral district of Rockingham, a State Electoral District in Western Australia

;Canada
* Rockingham, Nova Scotia
** Ecole Rockingham School, an elementary school in Halifax, Nova Scotia

;United States
* Rockingham, North Carolina
**Rockingham Speedway, AKA "The Rock", a former NASCAR track located outside of Rockingham, NC
* Rockingham, Georgia
* Rockingham, Vermont
* Rockingham County, New Hampshire
**Rockingham Park, a horse racing track in Salem, New Hampshire
* Rockingham County, North Carolina
* Rockingham County, Virginia
* Rockingham, Kingston, a historic house in Kingston, New Jersey

Other

* Operation Rockingham, a British government codename relating to operations with regard to Iraq
* Rockingham Pottery, a famous 19th century Yorkshire manufacturer of porcelain that benefitted from the patronage of the descendants of the Marquesses of Rockingham


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