West Shore

West Shore may refer to:

In Canada

  • Western Communities, the suburban municipalities of Colwood, Langford, Metchosin, View Royal, and The Highlands.

In the United Kingdom:

  • West Shore, Cumbria, a large sand and shingle beach

In the United States:

  • West Shore (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania, a series of communities along the western shore of the Susquehanna River
  • West Shore (Reading), Pennsylvania, a series of communities along the western shore of the Schuylkill River
  • West Shore, Staten Island, New York, a section in New York City

Non Geographical

  • West Shore Expressway, New York State Route 440 located on Staten Island, New York
  • West Shore Railroad, a railroad spanning New York and New Jersey
  • West Shore School District, located in Cumberland County and York County in Pennsylvania


Famous quotes containing the words west and/or shore:

    “The west was getting out of gold,
    The breath of air had died of cold....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Think how stood the white pine tree on the shore of the Chesuncook, its branches soughing with the four winds, and every individual needle trembling in the sunlight,—think how it stands with it now,—sold, perchance, to the New England Friction-Match Company!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)