Rockingham
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Rockingham can refer to several different things:
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People
- Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who was the eighth Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Places
- Rockingham, Northamptonshire
- Rockingham, North Carolina
- Rockingham, Vermont
- Rockingham County, New Hampshire
- Rockingham County, North Carolina
- Rockingham County, Virginia
- Rockingham, Western Australia
- Rockingham, Nova Scotia
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Things
- The Marquess of Rockingham in the peerage of Great Britain
- Rockingham (home) an historic house in Kingston, New Jersey
- Operation Rockingham was a British government codename relating to operations with regard to Iraq
- Rockingham Motor Speedway in Northamptonshire
- Rockingham Pottery, a famous 19th century Yorkshire manufacturer of porcelain which benefitted from the patronage of the descendants of the Marquesses of Rockingham.
- Rockingham Castle, located in Rockingham Forest in Northamptonshire, is where the peerage derives its name.