List of dedications to Edith Cavell

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This is a list of places and organisations named after Edith Cavell. For major monuments to her memory, see the list at Edith Cavell.

Medical and nursing

Country Facility Notes
UK A ward in the Basildon University Hospital, Basildon, Essex [1]
Australia A building at Brisbane General Hospital Precinct [2]
UK A ward in the Whittington Hospital in Archway, London
UK A wing of Homerton Hospital, Hackney, London
Canada A wing of Toronto Western Hospital
Canada Cavell Gardens Care Home, Vancouver The site was Edith Cavell Hospital from 1955 to 2000
UK Cavell House Care Home, Middle Road, Shoreham-by-Sea
UK Cavell Ward at the former Digby Hospital Exeter Exe Vale Hospitals group
Canada Edith Cavell Care Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta
New Zealand The Edith Cavell Home, Hospital, and Village. Sumner, Christchurch A retirement village
Belgium Centre hospitalier interrégional Edith-Cavell [fr] (CHIREC) Group of five hospitals including the former Edith Cavell Clinic, Uccle (Ukkel) Brussels[3]
UK Edith Cavell Healthcare Campus, Peterborough The campus is on the site of the former Edith Cavell Hospital where she received part of her education
Canada Cavell Building, Quinte Children's Treatment Centre, Belleville, Ontario Demolished in 2013
Canada Edith Cavell Regional School of Nursing, Belleville, Ontario Demolished in 2013[4]
UK Edith Cavell Surgery, Streatham, London
Belgium Sanatorium Edith Cavell, Obourg
UK Edith Cavell Building (ECB) Housing the School of Nursing Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Australia The Edith Cavell Trust Established by the New South Wales Nurses' Association to provide scholarships to nurses in New South Wales
USA The Edith Cavell Nursing Scholarship Fund A philanthropy of the Dallas County Medical Society Alliance Foundation providing scholarships to exceptional nursing students in Dallas, Texas and the surrounding area
UK Cavell Entrance, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London
UK Edith Cavell Unit, Maidstone Hospital, Kent A 12-bed ward, which cares for elderly patients[5]

Streets

Country Street Location Notes
Belgium Rue Edith Cavell [fr] Brussels Where there is a hospital named Edith Cavell, next to previous "Rue de la Culture" which was her first nurse school
France Avenue Edith Cavell Hyères 43°06′38″N 6°07′33″E / 43.11064°N 6.12595°E / 43.11064; 6.12595
France Avenue Edith-Cavell Nice
France Rue Edith Cavell Cannes
France Avenue Miss Cavell Saint-Maur-des-Fossés
Canada Cavell Avenue Etobicoke, Ontario
Canada Cavell Avenue Guelph, Ontario
Canada Cavell Avenue The Danforth neighbourhood of Toronto
UK Cavell Avenue Cambourne, Cambridgeshire 52°13′13″N 0°05′44″W / 52.22024°N 0.09566°W / 52.22024; -0.09566
USA Cavell Avenue Trenton, New Jersey
USA Cavell Avenue Twin Cities, Minnesota
USA Cavell Street Roselle, New Jersey
UK Cavell Close Woodbeck, Nottinghamshire Demolished
UK Cavell Close Telford Adjacent to Princess Royal Hospital
UK Cavell Drive Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire 51°52′00″N 0°10′36″E / 51.86674°N 0.17654°E / 51.86674; 0.17654
Canada Cavell Drive Winnipeg, Manitoba
UK Cavell Drive Portsmouth Queen Alexandra Hospital
New Zealand Cavell Place Whanganui [6]
UK Cavell Road Billericay, Essex
UK Cavell Road Dudley, West Midlands Formerly part of Worcestershire[7]
UK Cavell Road Norwich
UK Cavell Street Whitechapel, London Formerly known as Bedford Street. It runs next to the London Hospital where Cavell trained.
New Zealand Cavell Street Dunedin 45°54′02″S 170°31′10″E / 45.90052°S 170.51940°E / -45.90052; 170.51940
New Zealand Cavell Street Reefton
Australia Cavell Street West Hobart, Tasmania Formerly known as Princes Street, renamed 1921.
USA Cavell Street Westland, Michigan
UK Cavell Walk Stevenage
UK Cavell Way Maidenbower, Crawley, West Sussex
UK Cavell Way Pendleton, Salford, Greater Manchester
Canada Edith Cavell Boulevard Port Stanley, Ontario
UK Edith Cavell Close Openshaw, Manchester
UK Edith Cavell Court Kingston upon Hull
South Africa Edith Cavell Street Hillbrow, Johannesburg 26°11′32″S 28°02′48″E / 26.19227°S 28.04675°E / -26.19227; 28.04675
Mauritius Edith Cavell Street Port Louis 20°09′56″S 57°30′07″E / 20.16566°S 57.50207°E / -20.16566; 57.50207
UK Edith Cavell Way Shooter's Hill, London 51°28′19″N 0°02′52″E / 51.47201°N 0.04777°E / 51.47201; 0.04777
UK Edith Cavell Way Steeple Bumpstead
Belgium Edith Cavellstraat Ostend
New Zealand Nurse Cavell Lane Paparoa, Northland
Portugal Rua Edith Cavell Lisbon 38°44′00″N 9°07′54″W / 38.733283°N 9.131662°W / 38.733283; -9.131662
Portugal Rua Edith Cavell Amadora 38°44′49″N 9°13′48″W / 38.746813°N 9.229928°W / 38.746813; -9.229928
Belgium Rue Edith Cavell / Edith Cavellstraat Uccle (Ukkel), Brussels 50°48′24″N 4°21′26″E / 50.80667°N 4.35722°E / 50.80667; 4.35722
France Rue Edith Cavell Le Havre 49°30′30″N 0°05′03″E / 49.50846°N 0.0842°E / 49.50846; 0.0842
France Rue Edith Cavell Vitry-sur-Seine
France Rue Miss Cavell Arques
France Rue Miss Edith Cawell Creil

Schools, houses and school buildings

Country School House or building Location Notes
UK Crosslee Primary School Cavell House Blackley, Manchester
Canada A middle school Windsor, Ontario Closed in 1987
Canada An elementary school Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Later renamed to S.F. Howe
UK Stamford High School Cavell Stamford, Lincolnshire
UK Sheringham High School Cavell House Sheringham, Norfolk Blue house.
Jersey Jersey College for Girls Cavell House Dark blue house
India Pratt Memorial School Cavell House Kolkata Green house
India Queen Mary School Cavell House Mumbai Green house
Argentina Northlands School Cavell House Olivos Founded 1920
UK Cliff Park Junior School Cavell House Gorleston Red house
Australia St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School Cavell House Brisbane Blue house
UK Cavell Primary School Norwich
Canada Edith Cavell Elementary School St. Catharines, Ontario
Canada Edith Cavell Elementary School Vancouver, British Columbia
India Barnes School Edith Cavell House Deolali Green house
UK Rugby High School for Girls Edith Cavell House Rugby House abolished after 1979.
UK Edith Cavell Lower School Bedford
Canada Edith Cavell School Moncton, New Brunswick
UK Wymondham College a boarding block Norfolk
UK Edith Cavell Secondary School Hackney, London
UK Abbeydale Grammar School for Girls Cavell House Sheffield
Jamaica St. Andrew High School for Girls Cavell House Saint Andrew School house, denoted by the colour red.

Other

Country Name Location Notes
Canada Mount Edith Cavell One Dollar postage stamp Printed by British American Bank Note Company, December 4, 1930 (Scott: #177)
UK Cavell Gardens Inverness Cavell Gardens War memorial named in 1922, with new memorial stone added 2015[8]
Venus Cavell Corona Lat 38.3, Long 18.8 A geological feature on the planet
UK Car park Queensgate shopping centre, Peterborough One of four car parks in the centre. During refurbishment in 2011 plans to drop the names of all four car parks and refer only to them by colour (Cavell being "blue") resulted in a public backlash and the names being retained. [9][10]
UK Cavell House Clevedon, Somerset Where she spent some of her childhood, now a guest house.
UK Cavell House 26, College Road, Norwich Where her parents lived in retirement
USA Cavell Park Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota A playground.[11]
New Zealand Edith Cavell Bridge Shotover River, Otago region The bridge, opened in 1919, was unofficially named by a person who lived in a hut nearby. Whilst the local council did not agree with the naming, the name stuck and the bridge has since been known by this name[12][13]
USA Edith Cavell Chapter of the Daughters of the British Empire Houston, Texas
UK The Edith Cavell Tombland, Norwich public house
UK The Cavell Van The passenger luggage van that transported her remains from Dover to London during her repatriation.[14]
Miss Edith Cavell A variety of rose first bred in 1917
Canada Mount Edith Cavell Alberta A peak in the Canadian Rockies, named for her in 1916[15][16]
UK Radio Cavell Oldham A hospital radio station at the Royal Oldham Hospital
USA YWCA Camp Cavell Lexington, Michigan
UK Edith Cavell Projectile Factory Overnewton, Glasgow [17]
France, Belgium Girl's name Edith became a popular name for French and Belgian girls after her execution. The French chanteuse Édith Piaf (1915–1963), born two months after Cavell was executed, was the best known of these.[18]
USA Racehorse Edith Cavell Mare sired by Man o' War out of The Nurse. Foaled in 1923, Edith Cavell won the 1926 Coaching Club American Oaks and also defeated male horses in other stakes events.


References

Citations

  1. ^ Basildon and Thurrock Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2016.
  2. ^ QHR & 16639.
  3. ^ Chirec 2020.
  4. ^ Belleville Intelligencer 2013.
  5. ^ MaidstoneHospital.
  6. ^ Kirk 1978.
  7. ^ Black Country Bugle 2005.
  8. ^ Kerr 2015.
  9. ^ BBC News 2011.
  10. ^ Peterboroughtoday 2011.
  11. ^ Minneapolisparks.org.
  12. ^ Heritage New Zealand.
  13. ^ Baker 2016.
  14. ^ Colonel Stephens Railway Museum.
  15. ^ CdnRockiesDatabases.
  16. ^ CBC News 2014.
  17. ^ Dundee Courier & 23 June 1919.
  18. ^ Vallois 1998.

Bibliography

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  • Baker, Che (22 April 2016). "Tourist driver crashes into almost 100-year-old bridge near Queenstown". The Southland Times. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  • Basildon and Thurrock Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2016). "site map". Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  • "Cavell coming down". Belleville Intelligencer. 30 August 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  • "How 1920s Dudley honoured Nurse Cavell". Black Country Bugle. 6 January 2005. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  • "Mount Edith Cavell removed from new $10 bill description". CBC. The Canadian Press. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  • Chirec (2020), Our hospital sites, retrieved 23 March 2020
  • "'Cavell' Passenger Luggage Van No 132". Colonel Stephens Railway Museum, Kent and East Sussex Railway. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  • "Edith Cavell Factory for Sale". Dundee Courier. Angus, Scotland. 23 June 1919. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  • "Edith Cavell Bridge". Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  • Kerr, David (6 October 2015). "Inverness to commemorate centenary of the death of Edith Cavell". Aberdeen Journals Ltd. The Press and Journal. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  • Kirk, Athol (1978), Streets of Wanganui
  • "Maidstone Hospital - Edith Cavell Unit". Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  • "Minneapolisparks.org". Minneapolisparks.org. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  • "Mount Edith Cavell". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  • "Queensgate car park names U-turn". Peterborough Today. November 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  • "Brisbane General Hospital Precinct (entry 601903)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  • Vallois, Thirza (February 1998). "Two Paris Love Stories". Paris Kiosque. Archived from the original on July 14, 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2007.
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