Guindy







neighbourhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

































































Guindy
neighbourhood

Guindy Railway Station
Guindy Railway Station




Guindy is located in Chennai

Guindy

Guindy




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Guindy is located in Tamil Nadu

Guindy

Guindy




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Guindy is located in India

Guindy

Guindy




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Coordinates: 13°00′30″N 80°12′46″E / 13.0084125°N 80.2126875°E / 13.0084125; 80.2126875Coordinates: 13°00′30″N 80°12′46″E / 13.0084125°N 80.2126875°E / 13.0084125; 80.2126875
Country India
State Tamil Nadu
District Chennai
Metro Chennai
Government

 • Body Chennai Corporation
Elevation

15 m (49 ft)
Languages

 • Official Tamil
Time zone
UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
600032
Vehicle registration TN-09

Lok Sabha constituency
Chennai South

Planning agency
CMDA
Civic agency Chennai Corporation
Website www.chennai.tn.nic.in

Guindy is one of the important neighborhoods of Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. The Kathipara junction where Anna Salai, Mount-Poonamallee Road, Inner Ring Road, 100 Feet Road or Jawaharlal Nehru Road, and GST Road meet here. It is one of the important nodal points of road traffic in the metropolitan area. This junction serves as the entry point to the city limits from the suburbs. It is surrounded by Saidapet in the north, Kotturpuram and Adyar towards the east, Velachery in the south and Adambakkam and St. Thomas Mount in the west. Guindy is home to many important landmarks in the city, the most famous amongst them being the Guindy National Park — the only National Park in the country within city limits. It also serves as a main hub for several small and medium scale industries (Guindy Thiru Vi Ka Estate). Transportation to/ from the neighborhood is catered by Guindy railway station and Guindy metro station.




Contents






  • 1 Transportation


  • 2 Government House and Guindy under the British Raj


  • 3 Location in context


  • 4 Important landmarks


  • 5 References





Transportation


Guindy is well connected by road and train services. There are lots of buses plying through Guindy connecting with other parts of Chennai. It is also well connected by the trains with MRTS and Metro station. Guindy is also located 10 KM away from the airport.



Government House and Guindy under the British Raj


The governor lived in Government House, Fort St George, a palatial residence with numerous servants, and had an official Daimler car at his disposal. There was a head butler called Muniswami, who ruled with a rod of iron. For the governor’s ceremonial use, there was a glittering coach with prancing horses, accompanied by a bodyguard of Indian troopers with red uniforms, glittering steel accoutrements and pennoned lances.[1]


There was also Guindy, a spacious and elegant country home on the outskirts of Madras, surrounded by an extensive park. Nearby were a golf course, hockey pitches, riding stables and the Guindy Horse Racing Track.[2]
From May to October each year during the hot season, the Madras Government and its officials, the governor and his family went to Government House in the hill station of Ooty or Ootacamund in the Nilgiri Hills.[3]



Location in context






Important landmarks



  • Guindy Race Course

  • Guindy National Park

  • Raj Bhavan, Chennai

  • College of Engineering, Guindy

  • Anna University Chennai

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  • Snake Park

  • Cancer Institute

  • Guindy Thiru Vi Ka Estate

  • Guindy Links




References






  1. ^ Southern India painted by Lady Lawley described by F.E.Penny. A & C Black, prem London. 1914


  2. ^ "Sir Arthur Lawley, Eloquent Knight Errant, David J, Hogg". Chapter 5 Ruler of the Raj. Lady Lawley Cottage (Western Australian Red Cross) 2008, .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
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  3. ^ The Times Obituary for Lord Wenlock, 15 June 1932



















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