Cantonments of British India - Landour, Mhow, Kasauli, Ramgarh Cantonment, Almora, Aurangabad Cantonment, Bangalore Cantonment, Pune Cantonment (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Landour, Mhow, Kasauli, Ramgarh Cantonment, Almora, Aurangabad cantonment, Bangalore Cantonment, Pune Cantonment, Pachmarhi, Nasirabad, Ajmer, Lansdowne, Garhwal, Clement Town, Dagshai, Delhi Cantonment, Jammu Cantonment, Jalandhar Cantonment, Yol, India, Binnaguri, Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram, Ambala Cantonment, Firozpur Cantonment, Roorkee Cantonment, Secunderabad Cantonment Board, Kanpur Cantonment, Fatehgarh, Barrackpur Cantonment, Cannanore Cantonment, Navy Nagar, Kannur Cantonment, Nainital Cantonment, Morar Cantonment, Dalhousie Cantonment, Jabalpur Cantonment, Wellington Cantonment, Shillong Cantonment, Dehradun Cantonment, Belgaum Cantonment, Kapurthala Cantonment. Excerpt: Landour (also Landaur), a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 miles) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India. The twin towns of Mussoorie and Landour, together, are a well-known British Raj-era hill station in northern India. Mussoorie-Landour was widely known as the "Queen of the Hills." The name Landour is drawn from Llanddowror, a village in Carmarthenshire in southwest Wales. During the Raj, it was common to give nostalgic English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish names to one's home (or even to British-founded towns), reflecting one's ethnicity. Names drawn from literary works were also common, as from those by Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others. Landour. 1869 LandourLandour is located in the Lower Western Himalaya, in the Mussoorie Range, the second of the five parallel folds of the Himalaya. On average, Landour is about 1,500 ft (450 m) above Mussoorie, which itself is mostly at an altitude of 6,000 to 6,600 ft (1,800 to 2,000 m). The town lies largely on an east-west ridge, with a prominent southerly spur connecting its western e...