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:

    “You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.”
    —Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter. Zab (Robert Carradine)

    “Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”
    —John Updike (b. 1932)