Golden Mile

There are many geographical features called the "Golden Mile":

  • The Golden Mile, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (UK)
  • The Golden Mile, Blackpool, UK
  • The Golden Mile, Brentford, UK
  • The Golden Mile, Great Yarmouth, UK
  • The Golden Mile, Leicester, UK
  • The Golden Mile, Moscow, Russia
  • The Golden Mile, Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • The Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia
  • The Golden Mile, Durban, South Africa
  • The Golden Mile, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Former Highway 7, now London Line 22, in Sarnia, Ontario.
  • The Golden Mile, Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (a section of Baltimore Pike)
  • The Golden Mile District, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Nathan Road (also known as the Golden Mile), Kowloon, Hong Kong

Other uses:

  • In athletics any of a number of track or road races over the distance of one mile.
  • Underbelly: The Golden Mile, the third part of the Australian television series, set in Kings Cross
  • The Golden Mile, a 1989 album by Workshy
  • The Golden Mile, a 1996 album by UK band My Life Story
  • The Golden Mile, a 2008 album by Welsh band The Peth
  • The Golden Mile, a 2010 novel by Martin Cruz Smith

Famous quotes containing the words golden and/or mile:

    “Is it that mens frayle eyes, which gaze too bold,
    She may entangle in that golden snare:”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,
    He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile:
    He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
    And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile (l. 1–4)