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For criticism see Criticism of Woodstock

Woodstock may refer to any of the following:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 United Kingdom 1.2 Ireland 1.3 United States 1.4 Australia 1.5 Canada 1.6 New Zealand 1.7 South Africa 2 Culture 2.1 Woodstock Festival 3 People 4 Schools 5 Other uses

Places

United Kingdom

• Woodstock, Oxfordshire is a town in Oxfordshire, from which all other uses of the term originated.
  • Woodstock (UK Parliament constituency), a defunct Parliamentary constituency based around the town
  • Woodstock Palace
• Woodstock, Belfast

Ireland

• Woodstock (townland) near Ballindine in County Mayo
• Woodstock Estate, Inistouge, Co. Kilkenny. A wooded estate by the river Nore.

United States

• Woodstock, Alabama
• Woodstock, Connecticut
• Woodstock, Georgia
• Woodstock, Illinois
• Woodstock, Maine
• Woodstock, Maryland
• Woodstock, Minnesota
• Woodstock, New Hampshire
• Woodstock, New York, a town from which the 1969 festival (see below) took its name, although the festival was not staged there
  • Woodstock (CDP), New York, the primary hamlet within the town of Woodstock
• Woodstock, Ohio
• Woodstock, Portland, Oregon, neighborhood
• Woodstock, Vermont
  • Woodstock (village), Vermont, in the town of Woodstock
• Woodstock, Virginia
  • Battle of Woodstock, a fight near Woodstock, Virginia, during the American Civil War

Australia

• Woodstock, New South Wales
• Woodstock, Queensland

Canada

• Woodstock, New Brunswick
• Woodstock, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Woodstock, Ontario

New Zealand

• Woodstock, New Zealand

South Africa

• Woodstock, Cape Town

Culture

• Woodstock (novel), the 1826 novel by Walter Scott
• Woodstock (Peanuts), a character in the comic strip Peanuts
• Thomas of Woodstock (see Richard II, Part I), a play that may have been written by Shakespeare

Woodstock Festival

• The Woodstock Music and Art Fair (Woodstock Festival), a 1969 U.S. rock festival which inspired a 1970 Warner Bros. documentary film; it was followed by commemorative festivals including:
  • Woodstock '79
  • Woodstock '89
  • Woodstock '94
  • Woodstock 1999
• Movies and albums from these festivals include:
  • Woodstock (film), the 1970 documentary movie about the 1969 festival
  • Woodstock: Music From the Original Soundtrack and More, a live album from the 1969 festival
  • Woodstock 2, the second live album from the 1969 festival
  • Woodstock 1999, a live album from the 1999 festival
• "Woodstock" (song), a song by Joni Mitchell about the original festival
• Przystanek Woodstock, an annual Polish music festival, named after the 1969 event

People

• Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1301-1330)
• Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355-1397), a son of Edward III of England
• William Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock

Schools

• Woodstock School, an international residential school in the Indian Himalayas, established 1854

Other uses

• Woodstock (typewriter), improved by Alvah Curtis Roebuck
• Woodstock Pub, a pub in Bangkok, Thailand
• Woodstock Times, newspaper in the New York town of Woodstock

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