Landour, a small cantonment
town contiguous with Mussoorie
, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun
in the northern state of Uttarakhand
in India. The twin towns of Mussoorie and Landour, together, are a well-known British Raj
-era hill station
in northern India. Mussoorie-Landour was widely known as the "Queen of the Hills". The name Landour is drawn from Llanddowror
, a village in Carmarthenshire
in southwest Wales
. During the Raj, it was common to give nostalgic English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish names to one's home (or even to British-founded towns), reflecting one's ethnicity. Names drawn from literary works were also common, as from those by Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others.
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