Albion (disambiguation)

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Albion is an alternative and archaic name for Great Britain or England.

Albion may also refer to:

Places

Antarctica

• Mount Albion, part of the Athos Range, Mac. Robertson Land

Australia

• Albion, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane
• Albion, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne

Canada

• Albion, British Columbia, a neighbourhood of Maple Ridge
• Albion, a community within the town of Albion, Ontario
• Albion Falls, Ontario, a waterfall
• Albion Township, Ontario, a township in Peel County (now Peel Region)

France

• Plateau d'Albion in the Vaucluse, France, a former site of French nuclear missile silos

Guyana

• Albion, Guyana, a town

Mauritius

• Albion, Mauritius, a village in the district of Rivière Noire

United States

• Albion, California, a census designated place
• Albion River, California
• Albion, Idaho, a city
• Albion, Illinois, a city
• Albion Precinct, Edwards County, Illinois, a defunct precinct
• Albion, Indiana, a town in Noble County
• Albion, Scott County, Indiana
• Albion, Iowa, a city
• Albion, Kansas, a ghost town
• Albion, Maine, a town
• Albion, Michigan, a city
• Albion, an early name for Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Albion, Nebraska, a city in Boone County
• Albion, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
• Albion, Montana, a ghost town
• Albion (village), New York
• Albion (town), Orleans County, New York
• Albion, Oswego County, New York
• Albion, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
• Albion, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Albion, Oklahoma, a town
• Albion, Pennsylvania, a borough
• Albion, Rhode Island, a village and historic district in Lincoln
• Albion (Winnsboro, South Carolina), a plantation home on the National Register of Historic Places
• Albion, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Albion, Washington, a town
• Albion, Dane County, Wisconsin, a town
  • Albion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Albion, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town
• Albion, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, a town
• Albion Township (disambiguation)

In business

• Albion Dockyard, a shipbuilding yard in Bristol operated by Charles Hill & Sons from 1848 to 1977
• Albion Shipping Company, a shipping line founded in Glasgow in 1858; became The Shaw, Savill & Albion Line in 1882
• Albion Machinery, a brand used by David Brown Ltd. (tractors) for agricultural machinery built by them
• Albion Motors, a vehicle manufacturer based in Glasgow, Scotland from 1899 to 1980
• Albion Swords, a company based in New Glarus, Wisconsin, manufacturing European sword replicas
• Albion Co., Ltd., a Japanese cosmetics manufacturer and distributor

Music

• The Albion Band, a former English folk band formed in 1972 by Ashley Hutchings
• Albion, an alias used by Ferry Corsten, electronic music producer/DJ
• Albion (Ten album) (2014), by the British hard rock band Ten
• "Albion" (song), by the Babyshambles
• "Albion", a musical piece by Jan Van der Roost

In print

• Albion (journal), a historical journal focusing on British history
• Albion (Blake), a character in the poetry of William Blake
• Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, a non-fiction work by Peter Ackroyd
• Albion (novel series), a trilogy of novels of Arthurian Britain by Patrick McCormack
• Albion (comics), a 2005 six-issue comic-book limited series
• Albion, a Marvel Comics character and X-Men villain in the New Excalibur series

Schools

• Albion College, a liberal arts college in Albion, Michigan
• Albion State Normal School, Albion, Idaho, a teacher's school from 1893 to 1951
• The Albion Academy, a coeducational secondary school located in Pendleton, Salford, Greater Manchester, England
• Albion High School (disambiguation)

Ships

• HMS Albion, nine ships of the Royal Navy
  • Albion-class ship of the line (1763), a Royal Navy class of five 74-gun third rates
  • Albion-class ship of the line (1842), a Royal Navy class of three 90-gun second rates
• Albion (1798 whaler) made five whaling voyages to New South Wales and New Zealand; the government chartered her in 1803 to transport stores and cattle, to Risdon Cove on the River Derwent, Tasmania.
• Albion (1813 ship) made three voyages transporting convicts to New South Wales, and also traded with Jamaica, India, and Quebec
• Albion (steamboat), which ran on Puget Sound, Washington, USA, from 1898 to 1924
• Albion (wherry), a trading vessel, then a lighter, now preserved by the Norfolk Wherry Trust

Sports

United Kingdom

• Albion Rovers F.C., a Scottish Football League team from the North Lanarkshire town of Coatbridge
• Albion Rovers F.C. (Newport), a Welsh football team from the city of Newport
• Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., an English professional football club based in the city of Brighton & Hove, Sussex
• Burton Albion F.C., a professional English association football club based in the town of Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire
• Forfar Albion F.C., a Scottish football club based in Forfar, Angus
• Ossett Albion A.F.C., an English football team in the Northern Premier League Division One North, based in Ossett, West Yorkshire
• Plymouth Albion R.F.C., a rugby union club who play in Plymouth, England
• Shepshed Albion F.C., a defunct English football club also known as Shepshed Charterhouse from 1975 to 1992
• Stirling Albion F.C., a Scottish football club currently playing in the Scottish First Division
• Tadcaster Albion A.F.C., an English football club based in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire
• West Bromwich Albion F.C., an English professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands
• Witton Albion F.C., are an English football team in the Northern Premier League Division One North based in Northwich, Cheshire

Other

• Albion Football Club, an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Albion
• Albion Cricket Club (Dunedin), New Zealand, reputedly the oldest continuously existing cricket club in New Zealand and Australia
• Albion F.C., a football club based in Montevideo, Uruguay

Television

• Albion, a floating island nation in the anime series The Familiar of Zero
• Albion, Robin Hood's sword in the TV series Robin of Sherwood, one of the mystical "Seven Swords of Wayland"
• Albion (Gundam), a fictional ship in the Gundam 0083 anime series
• Lancelot Albion, a Knightmare Frame mecha from anime series Code Geass
• Albion, a Killtgang in the anime series Captain Earth
• Albion Market, a short-lived British soap opera

Transportation

• Albion Road (disambiguation), various roads in Canada and England
• Albion Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Albion (Amtrak station), a railway station in Albion, Michigan
• Albion railway station, West Midlands, Oldbury

Video games

• Albion (video game), a 1995 single-player computer role-playing game. Also the name of the fictional planet on which the game is set.
• Albion, fictional setting of the Fable video game series
• Albion, a setting in the video game Destroy All Humans! 2, which is located in England
• Albion, one of the three factions in Dark Age of Camelot
• Albion, native country of the player in "Choice of Broadsides" for mobile

People with the name

• Mark Albion (born 1951), American writer
• Albion (Saxon), a Germanic leader of the Saxons
• Albion (given name), a list of people

Other uses

• Operation Albion, the German invasion and conquest in 1917 of the Estonian Islands of Saaremaa (Ösel), Hiiumaa (Dagö) and Muhu (Moon)
• Alebion, sometimes called "Albion", a son of Poseidon in Greek mythology
• Albion Correctional Facility, a medium security women's prison in Albion, New York
• Albion Colliery, a former coal mine in Cilfynydd, Wales
• Albion (Warhammer), an island that represents the British Isles in the table-top fantasy wargame Warhammer
• Albion, a kingdom in the movie Jack the Giant Slayer
• Albion (astronomy), an astronomical instrument constructed by Richard of Wallingford, Abbot of St. Albans, in 1326

See also

• New Albion (disambiguation)
• Albiones, a pre-Roman Celtic tribe of the Iberian Peninsula