Place · colonial cantonment ridge · India
Landour
Also known as Landaur
Landour sits on the ridge about three kilometres above Mussoorie, between 2,200 and 2,400 metres, founded as a British military convalescent depot in 1827 for soldiers recovering from the 1824 Burma war. The cantonment carries St Paul's Church (1839), the Landour Language School (1870s, the primary language-learning centre for subcontinental missionaries), the Char Dukan tea shops at the top of the ridge and Char Khambe. Ruskin Bond's house at Ivy Cottage sits on the Landour side, as does Victor Banerjee's residence; the Landour-Mussoorie road is the oldest motorable road in the Garhwal Himalaya.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 30.470, 78.084
Connections (1)
- Site withinMussoorie
Landour sits on the ridge about three kilometres above and to the east of Mussoorie, part of the greater Mussoorie Municipal Board. The two were administered together as a single hill-station cantonment from 1827; the Landour cemetery and the Landour Language School both have Mussoorie postal addresses.
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