Landour

Landour
Landaur
town
From top, left to right: Bandarpunch from Landour; Landour Himalayan View; Landour Community Hospital; St. Paul's Church, Landour
Landour is located in Uttarakhand
Landour
Landour
Location in Uttarakhand, India
Landour is located in India
Landour
Landour
Landour (India)
Coordinates: 30°28′N 78°06′E / 30.47°N 78.10°E / 30.47; 78.10
Country India
StateUttarakhand
DistrictDehradun
Population
 (2001)
 • Total3,500
Languages
 • OfficialHindi, Garhwali
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
248179
Vehicle registrationUK
Websiteuk.gov.in
[1]

Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in Dehradun district in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India.[2] 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.[3] 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, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others.[4]

  1. ^ http://www.whereincity.com/india/pincode/uttarakhand/dehradun.htm
  2. ^ "Man on the mountain - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  3. ^ Jalil, Rakhshanda (14 July 2012). "Mussoorie blues". The Hindu. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  4. ^ "History – LANDOUR CANTONMENT BOARD". landour.cantt.gov.in. Retrieved 28 October 2023.