Wilmington may refer to: Places Australia Wilmington, South Australia, a town and locality District Council of Wilmington, a former local government area Wilmington railway line, a former railway line United Kingdom Wilmington, Devon Wilmington, East Sussex Wilmington, Kent Wilmington, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire Wilmington, Somerset Lordship of Wilmington, an ancient manor in Kent in the parish of Sellindge United States Wilmington, Los Angeles, California, a neighborhood Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware Wilmington, Greene County, Illinois Wilmington, Will County, Illinois Wilmington, Indiana Wilmington, Kansas Wilmington, Massachusetts Wilmington station (MBTA), commuter rail station Wilmington High School (Massachusetts) Wilmington Township, Minnesota Wilmington, Minnesota Wilmington, New York, a town Wilmington (CDP), New York, the main hamlet in the town Wilmington, North Carolina, the largest US city, based on population, with the name Wilmington, Ohio Wilmington Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania Wilmington Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania Wilmington, Vermont, a New England town Wilmington (CDP), Vermont, the main village in the town Wilmington, Virginia Wilmington Island, Georgia Wilmington River (Georgia) Wilmington Manor, Delaware New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, in Lawrence County South Wilmington, Illinois, in Grundy County People Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673–1743), British Prime Minister, 1742–1743, who gave his name to many of the places called Wilmington Earl of Wilmington, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1730 for Spencer Compton Lord of Wilmington, an abbreviation of Lord of the Manor of Wilmington, a feudal dignity relating to land originally granted under an Anglo-Saxon charter of 700 C.E. Educational institutions Wilmington College (Ohio), Wilmington, Ohio Wilmington University, New Castle, Delaware University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina Other uses , any of several ships in the United States fleet Wilmington insurrection of 1898 Wilmington plc, a British publishing and business information company Wilmington Subdivision, a railroad line in North Carolina See also Wilmington station (disambiguation)