Romney
Romney is a town in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States, and its county seat. The population was 1,722 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Winchester, Virginia metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,970 residents
- Description: city in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Pearsall’s”, “Pearsall’s Flats”, “Pearsall’s Fort”, “Pearsall’s Level”, “Pearsalls Flats”, “Pearsals”, “Romney, West Virginia”, and “Romney, WV”
- Postal code: 26757
Places of Interest
Highlights include Literary Hall and Romney Classical Institute.
Literary Hall
Museum
Photo: Justin A. Wilcox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Literary Hall is a mid-19th-century brick library, building and museum located in Romney, a city in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located at the intersection of North High Street and West Main Street.
Romney Classical Institute
Historic building
Romney Classical Institute was a 19th-century coeducational collegiate preparatory school in Romney, Virginia, United States, between 1846 and shortly after 1866.
Taggart Hall
Museum
Photo: Quercus montana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Taggart Hall is a late 18th-century residence that houses the Fort Mill Ridge Foundation and its Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches museum. It is at 91 South High Street, Romney, West Virginia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Valley and Vanderlip.
Valley
Hamlet
Valley was a populated place and post office on the South Branch line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It was centered near the intersection of West Sioux Lane and Depot Valley Road, now located within the present-day corporate boundaries of Romney.
Vanderlip
Hamlet
Vanderlip is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Vanderlip is located west of Romney along the Northwestern Turnpike and the South Branch Valley Railroad.
Vance
Hamlet
Vance is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Vance lies on the South Branch Potomac River. Most of its residents reside along West Virginia Route 28. Buffalo Creek empties into the South Branch at Vance. Vance is situated 2½ miles north of Romney.
Romney
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Hampshire, Potomac Highlands, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.342° or 39° 20′ 31″ northLongitude
-78.7565° or 78° 45′ 23″ westPopulation
1,970Elevation
820 feet (250 metres)Open location code
87F386RV+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 158604279OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4820597Wikidata ID
Q2129729
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Romney” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رومني”
- Basque: “Romney”
- Catalan: “Romney”
- Cebuano: “Romney”
- Chechen: “Ромни (Малхбузен Вирджини)”
- Chechen: “Ромни”
- Chinese: “Romney”
- Chinese: “羅姆尼”
- Cornish: “Romney, Virjynni West”
- Czech: “Romney”
- Dagbani: “Romney”
- Danish: “Romney”
- Dutch: “Romney”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رومنى”
- French: “Romney”
- German: “Romney”
- Gilaki: “رومنی (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “رومنی”
- Hebrew: “רומני”
- Hungarian: “Romney”
- Irish: “Romney”
- Italian: “Romney”
- Japanese: “ロムニー”
- Japanese: “ロンニー”
- Ladin: “Romney”
- Latin: “Romnia”
- Malagasy: “Romney, West Virginia”
- Malagasy: “Romney”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Romney”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Romney”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rūmeneā, Westfirginiæ”
- Pennsylvania German: “Romney, Wescht Wirschini”
- Pennsylvania German: “Romney”
- Persian: “رامنی، ویرجینیای غربی”
- Persian: “رامنی”
- Polish: “Romney”
- Portuguese: “Romney”
- Russian: “Ромни”
- Serbian: “Ромни”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Romney, West Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Romney”
- Slovak: “Romney”
- Slovenian: “Romney”
- South Azerbaijani: “رومنئی، باتی ویرجینیا”
- Spanish: “Romney”
- Swedish: “Romney, West Virginia”
- Swedish: “Romney”
- Tatar: “Ромни (Көнбатыш Вирджиния)”
- Tatar: “Ромни”
- Ukrainian: “Ромні”
- Volapük: “Romney”
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