Truro (disambiguation)

Truro (disambiguation)

Truro is the county town of Cornwall. It may also refer to:

*Truro, Nova Scotia, Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada
*Truro, Iowa, United States
*Truro, Massachusetts, United States
*Truro, South Australia, Australia
*Truro Parish, Virginia, United States

People

*Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro (1783-1855), English jurist and Lord Chancellor

Railway locomotives

*West Cornwall Railway#Locomotives, "Truro", a West Cornwall Railway 2-4-0 steam locomotive
*GWR 3700 Class 3440 "City of Truro", a Great Western Railway 4-4-0 steam locomotive, is claimed to be the first locomotive to have exceeded 100mph.

Other uses

* Truro Murders, a series of murders in South Australia named after the town near where the remains of the victims were dumped
*"Truro" (ship), a ship that carried the first batch of indentured Indian labourers to South Africa


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