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Waverley may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Waverley (novel), by Sir Walter Scott
    • Waverley Overture, a work by Hector Berlioz inspired by Scott's novel
  • Waverley Harrison, a character in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
  • Bernice Waverley, a character in the Australian series City Homicide

Places

Australia

Canada

  • Waverley, Nova Scotia, a suburban community in the Halifax Regional Municipality
  • Waverley Park (Thunder Bay), a municipal park in Thunder Bay, Ontario
  • Waverley No. 44, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality

New Zealand

  • Waverley, Otago, a suburb of Dunedin
  • Waverley, Taranaki, a small town

South Africa

  • Waverley, Johannesburg
  • Waverley, Bloemfontein
  • Waverley, Pretoria
  • Waverley, Mpumalanga, a small border crossing between South Africa and Swaziland

United Kingdom

United States

Transportation

  • GWR Waverley Class, a class of Great Western Railway broad-gauge steam locomotives, England
  • Edinburgh Waverley railway station, the main railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland
    • Waverley Route, former railway line in Scotland, later reinstated between Edinburgh and Tweedbank
  • Waverley (passenger train), an express train from London St Pancras to Edinburgh Waverley which ceased operating in 1968
  • Waverley Bridge, a road bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland
  • PS Waverley, a paddle steamer based on the River Clyde in Scotland
  • Waverley Bus Depot, in the Sydney, Australia suburb of Bondi Junction
  • Waverley Rail Trail, a combined shared-use path for cyclists and pedestrians and on-road bicycle route in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
  • Winnipeg Route 80, known locally as Waverley Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  • Waverley (MBTA station), a transit station in Belmont, Massachusetts, United States

Other uses

  • Waverley Root (1903-1982), American journalist and writer
  • Viscount Waverley, a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom
  • Waverley Country Club, Portland, Oregon, United States
  • Waverley Wind Farm, New Zealand
  • The Waverley pen nib, made by Macniven and Cameron, a popular 19th-century writing instrument named after the Waverley novels

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Waverley para niños

  • Pope-Waverley, early 20th-century automobiles made in Indiana, U.S.
  • Waverly (disambiguation)
  • Wavorly
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