Norwood

Demographic figures from Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Norwood is a village in Sri Lanka located within the Central Province, near the banks of Kehelgamu Oya, a tributary of the Kelani River.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Eric Shipton

British explorer (1907–1977)

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Albert Pillans

English cricketer (1869-1901)

Henry Robert Charles Martin

British officer of arms and badminton player (1889–1942)

Ouvry Lindfield Roberts

British Army general (1898-1986)

Shelton Payagala

Sri Lankan film director

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Robin Boyd-Moss

English cricketer (born 1959)

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Roy Dutton

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St. John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler

British Army officer

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Hasan Rushdy

cricketer

Premil Ratnayake

Sri Lankan journalist and writer

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Catherine Emslie Anderson

English physician in Ceylon (1881–1934)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Central

• Gamini Pura
  3.6 mi away · pop. 5,000
• Hatton
  3.8 mi away · pop. 16,200
• Nanu Oya
  11.5 mi away · pop. 8,000
• Hapugastalawa
  15.2 mi away · pop. 10,000
• Ethgala
  20.5 mi away · pop. 10,000
• Mariyawatte
  21.8 mi away · pop. 6,000
• Bothalapitiya
  23.3 mi away · pop. 5,000
• Wegiriya
  24.5 mi away · pop. 5,000
• Watadeniya
  24.8 mi away · pop. 8,000
• Buwelikada
  26.1 mi away · pop. 8,000
• Koshinna
  27.2 mi away · pop. 5,000
• Angunawala
  27.6 mi away · pop. 5,000

Browse all places in Central →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Norwood

Search results from Open Library.