Peveril

Peveril may refer to:

People

• Peveril William-Powlett (1898–1985), Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station
• Peveril Meigs (1903–1979), American geographer, notable for his studies of arid lands on several continents

Fiction

• Peveril of the Peak, the longest novel by the author Sir Walter Scott

Places

• Peveril Castle, a ruined early medieval castle overlooking the village of Castleton in the English county of Derbyshire
• Peveril Point, a promontory and part of the town of Swanage in Dorset, England
• Peveril (Greenland), a peak in the Stauning Alps
• Peveril Bilateral School, former name of Nottingham Girls' Academy, a secondary school and sixth form with academy status
• Peveril, a hamlet within the municipality of Sainte-Justine-de-Newton, Quebec, Canada

Ships

The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company named four of its ships Peveril. All operated on the Irish Sea.

• SS Peveril (1884) A 595-ton, twin-screw packet steamer. She sank following a collision with SS Monarch in 1899.
• SS Peveril (1929) A 798-ton, cargo ship which was sold and scrapped in 1964
• MV Peveril (1963) A 1,048-ton, motor cargo vessel, which was sold in 1981 and scrapped in 2001.
• MV Peveril (1971) A 1,950-ton, ro-ro cargo ferry, which was sold in 2000 and scrapped in 2009.

Locomotives

• No. 6 Peveril A 2-4-0 locomotive, built by Beyer-Peacock, Gorton, Manchester, in 1875 for service with the Isle of Man Railway

See also

• Club Sandwich at the Peveril Hotel, final release by the group Six by Seven
• Peverill, a surname and given name

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This page was last edited on 10 January 2024, at 23:49