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A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand ( sometimes tens of thousands ), Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the East Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon, as well as Hampstead Village in the London conurbation.
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The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.
An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.
Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.
Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.
Azincourt is twinned with the English village of Middleham in North Yorkshire.
Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective.
Most of the families moved to the nearby village of Dooagh, which is beside the sea, while some others emigrated.
The village was completely abandoned which is where the name ' Deserted Village ' came from.
The school is involved in a study of the prehistoric and historic landscape at Slievemore, incorporating a research excavation at a number of sites within the deserted village of Slievemore.
It was during his early trips to Achill prior to the outbreak of World War I that Henri painted extensively and is reputed to have done portraits of almost all the children in Dooagh village.
There is a monument to him in his native village.
The tiny village is home to the Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer ( AIAS ).
There is also the traditional village politics of the Samoa Islands, the " faamatai " and the " faasamoa ", which continues in American Samoa and in independent Samoa, and which interacts across these current boundaries.
The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.
" They must guard a village that is being shelled too heavily.
Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.
Portes is a fishing village on the east coast.
Aberdour (;, ) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland.
Aberfoyle () is a village in the region of Stirling, Scotland, northwest of Glasgow.
Pentwyn, Torfaen is a small village located in the district of Abersychan.
The village has a cricket team ( Pentwyn CC ) and is located right next to the old railway line.
A small group of houses on Incline Road mark the beginning of the village and the village boundary is near Cwmavon.
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Approaching a ' village ,' the little dogs may be observed frisking about the ' streets ' — passing from dwelling to dwelling apparently on visits — sometimes a few clustered together as though in council — here feeding upon the tender herbage — there cleansing their ' houses ,' or brushing the little hillock about the door — yet all quiet.
The name Bree means " hill " according to Tolkien, referring to the fact that the village of Bree and the surrounding Bree-land were clustered around a large hill.
As New Canaan's shoe business gathered momentum early in the nineteenth century, instead of a central village, regional settlements of clustered houses, mill, and school developed into distinct district centers.
" Henriquez drew up plans for a motel-like village, with 48 suites clustered around a central courtyard.
In the late nineteenth century, ' Ajjur was a small village containing olive trees, with most of its houses clustered together, but some dispersed to the west and south.
The planners clustered the housing developments around small ‘ village centres ’ with associated retail space, leisure facilities, post offices, primary schools, pharmacies, community centres and other civic amenities.
Later, according to Kerrey, the team was shot at from the village and returned fire, only to find after the battle that some of the deceased appeared to be under 18, clustered together in the center of the village.
It is situated just north of the medieval village of Stepney, which was clustered around St. Dunstan ’ s Church.
" Henriquez drew up plans for a motel-like village, with 48 to 120 suites clustered around central courtyards.
The village was rebuilt after the Second World War, also allowing the new buildings more space in contrast to the old structure of a clustered romansh village.
It is a so-called Haufendorf (" clustered village "; denotes an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square ).
Shorne village is clustered around two locations.
The original village clustered around Dundrum Castle and was considered a rural defensive outpost against assaults and raids from Irish tribes and families such as the O ' Tooles and the O ' Byrnes.
The original village is clustered around St. Mary's church, whose churchyard contains an ancient yew.
The village is clustered around what remains of High Ercall Hall, originally a fortified 13th-century manor owned by the Arkle family ; in the seventeenth century the house was owned by the Newport family, having been rebuilt in 1608 for Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport.
The village centre is clustered around the church, which is dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul and is at least eight hundred years old.
Many of the houses are spread along long roads rather than clustered around a point, giving the village a somewhat decentralised feel.
Situated just north of a loop in the River Great Ouse and almost due north of Bedford, the village has developed as a ribbon-settlement running south-east to north-west, with the core of the community clustered at the north-western end.
The village has an identifiable centre, with several shops ( including a pharmacy, a hardware store and funeral directors, a fish and chip shop, a takeaway, a beauty salon, a combined Post Office and card shop, a council shop, a few pubs, and a Tesco supermarket clustered loosely around St Bartholemew's Church.
It has a population of 250 in 110 homes clustered around the church of St Thomas of Canterbury, The Queen's Head pub and the village hall.
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