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Nonsuch may refer to the following:
Ships or ship types
- Nonsuch, the English ship that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668–69
- HMS Nonsuch, name of several English and British warships
- USS Nonsuch (1813), a US warship from 1813
- HMCS Nonsuch, a Canadian Naval Reserve division in Edmonton, Alberta
- Nonsuch (sailboat), a cat-rigged sailboat manufactured in Canada.
- Nonsuch was a country-ship of 483 tons burthen (bm), launched at Calcutta in 1781 to serve as a merchantman or a warship. She made one voyage for the British East India Company from Bengal to Britain in 1795-6, and was broken up in 1802 after suffering damage in an accident.
Places
- England
- Nonsuch House, 1579, on London Bridge
- Nonsuch Palace, an English royal palace built by Henry VIII in what is now Surrey
- Treaty of Nonsuch, a treaty made at the palace between England and the Dutch Republic in 1585.
- Nonsuch Park, a public park in the London Borough of Sutton, part of the larger park associated with the palace
- Nonsuch Mansion, a mansion in Nonsuch Park
- Ireland
- Nonsuch, County Westmeath, a townland in Mayne civil parish, barony of Fore, County Westmeath
Other
- Nonsuch (album), an alternative rock album by British band XTC
- Nonsuch Island, Bermuda, island in Bermuda, being restored to pre-colonial ecology
- Nonsuch High School, a girls' Grammar school in Cheam, Surrey UK, near the park
- Nonsuch Publishing, publisher of general and local history, in Dublin, Ireland
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