Looe is divided in two by the River Looe, East Looe () and West Looe () being connected by a bridge.

The town is situated around a small harbour and along the steep-sided valley of the River Looe which flows between East and West Looe to the sea beside a sandy beach.

Archeological evidence, such as the so-called Giant's Hedge and the stone circle at Bin Down ( from the Cornish " Bin Dun ", meaning " hill fort ") on a hill above East Looe, indicates that the area around Looe was inhabited as early as 1000 BC.

At the time of the Domesday Book the manor of Pendrym, which included much of the site of modern-day East Looe, was held by William the Conqueror as part of his own demesne and came to be managed by the Bodgrugan ( Bodrigan ) family.

Shutta, on the steep hillside over East Looe, is known to have been inhabited by the twelfth century.

At some time between 1154 and 1189 a charter was granted by Henry II to Sir Henry Bodrugan for the town of East Looe.

West Looe was given free borough status sometime after this ( the first known historical mention of the town dates from 1327 ) and in the 1230s East Looe gained the right to hold a weekly market and a Michaelmas fair.

In these early days, East Looe may have been a " planted borough ", a concept similar to modern new towns ; much of it is laid out in a grid-like pattern.

The parish church of East Looe was at St Martin by Looe but there was a chapel of ease in the town.

The Church of St. Mary in East Looe was dedicated in 1259 by Walter Bronscombe, Bishop of Exeter.

The Old Guildhall in East Looe is believed to date from around 1500.

Between their incorporation in the 16th century ( East Looe 1571, West Looe 1553 ) and the Great Reform Act of 1832, West Looe and East Looe were renowned examples of rotten boroughs, each returning two MPs to the unreformed House of Commons, despite their tiny populations.

It lay within easy reach of the major European nations and linked the Arab countries of North Africa with those of the Middle East, facts that throughout history had made its urban centres bustling crossroads rather than isolated backwaters without external social influences.

Similarly, neither East Berlin nor West Berlin regarded their half as a priority area for redevelopment, seeking instead to distance themselves from the traditional heart of the city and develop two new centres for themselves, well away from the troubled border zone.

To the east of the Courtney Bay / Forebay and south of New Brunswick Route 1 is the East Side, where the city has experienced its greatest suburban sprawl in recent decades with commercial retail centres and residential subdivisions.

The earliest tribal centres of the East Slavs included Novgorod, Izborsk, Polotsk, Gnezdovo, and Kiev.

This diversity suggests the gradual end of the role of Wessex as a focal point and trend-setter for writers and scribes, the emergence of more distinct local scribal styles and written dialects, and a general pattern of transition of activity over the centuries that followed, as Northumbria, East Anglia, and London successively emerged as major centres of English literature, each with their own particular interests.

Chancery Standard was largely based on the London and East Midland dialects, for those areas were the political and demographic centres of gravity.

Other major urban centres include Plymouth, Swindon, Gloucester, Exeter, Bath, and the South East Dorset conurbation of Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch.

This stagnancy in population despite a high birth surplus in eastern Germany was because many people from the East Prussian countryside moved westward to seek work in the expanding industrial centres of the Ruhr Area and Berlin ( see Ostflucht ).

Rail services that connect the towns in the New Territories with the city centres of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island are provided by the East Rail Line, West Rail Line and Tung Chung Line.

Since then the school has grown into one of the world's most notable centres for the exclusive study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

The Pacific is also home to one of the world's most active spreading centres ( the East Pacific Rise ( EPR )) with spreading rates of up to 13 cm / yr.

The Middle East was by this time comparatively removed from the main centres of fighting.

There are centres of settlement, the largest of which are Horsham, Burgess Hill, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Crowborough ; and the area along the coast from Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea to Rye and Hythe.

He has upheld over the years his duties as a Patron to a number of charitable organisations including, a North East Charity which has built schools and care centres for mentally and physically handicapped children and Convoy, a charity which Lord Stevens set up to improve the quality of life of Romanian orphans, Aids sufferers and disabled children and for which he was awarded the Star of Romania, by the President of Romania.

Thus the general elections of 1970 produced a new political configuration with three distinct centres of power :( i ) the AL in East Pakistan: ( ii ) the PPP in Sindh and the Punjab ; and ( iii ) the NAP-JUI in Baluchistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

The two major industrial centres, Port Elizabeth and East London have well-developed economies based on the automotive industry.

They have a rivalry with fellow Lancashire club Burnley, located just eleven miles ( 18 km ) east, known as the East Lancashire derby or " Cotton Mills derby " because of the two communities ' history as major centres of the cotton industry during the Industrial Revolution.

The university has strong regional agenda and a number of partner institutions in the region: Colchester Institute, South Essex College ( in Southend ), Writtle College ( near Chelmsford ), the Tavistock and Portman Trust ( in London ) and University Campus Suffolk, a joint venture with the University of East Anglia, with a central campus in Ipswich and five centres in Suffolk and Norfolk.

Although traditionally a main shopping area for most of the surrounding districts, patterns have changed over the last 20 years ; traditional centres such as Ayr have been joined by new developments at Braehead and East Kilbride.

In addition the Society has four wildlife centres at East Winch ( Norfolk ), West Hatch ( Somerset ), Stapeley Grange ( Cheshire ) and Mallydams Wood ( East Sussex ), which provide treatment to sick, injured and orphaned wild animals to maximise their chances of a successful return to the wild.

Kota Kinabalu is also one of the major industrial and commercial centres of East Malaysia.

Its proximity to the major centres of the North East of England has in recent years attracted residents from Newcastle and Gateshead to move out to escape the city.

There are two medical centres in Leicester Forest East, one at the eastern end housing a general practitioners, a pharmacy and a dentist, and another on the western end ( Warren Lane ) with similar facilities.

It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

The crisis was artificially stirred up by the Kremlin ( Wall Street ) and the Red Army ( Pentagon ) egged on by the West Germans ( East Germans ).

They start on the East side of the Schuylkill, have to cross over to the West to use the expressway and cross over again to the East at their destination.

We should avoid these congestion points or, putting it another way, keep cars starting and ending on the East side of the river -- on the East side.

In all the bitter in-fighting, the squabbles over election procedures, the complicated numbers game that East and West played on the assistant secretaries' theme, the gentleman from Burma showed himself both as a man of principle and a skilled diplomat.

When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.

A replica of two coaches made in England for the Belmont Club in the East, and matchless west of the Rockies, it was the despair of whips on the Santa Cruz run.

These striking, modernistic buildings on the East River are open to the public and every weekday guided tours are available.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

A flight originating in Florida picked up guests on the East Coast and Midwest and a plane left from Seattle taking on passengers at West Coast points.

The normal rate of suicides in East Berlin was one a day, but since the border was closed on August 13 it has jumped to 25 a day!!

He wrote detailed comparative studies on the religions and cultures in the Middle East, Mediterranean, and especially South Asia.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

* Earth Architecture and Conservation in East Anglia-British organisation that focuses on the proper maintenance and conservation of earth buildings in a region of the UK that has a long history of building with mud.

As the Confederate government concentrated efforts on the units in the East, they gave Johnston only small numbers of reinforcements and minimal amounts of arms and material.

A line running from Cape Aspro ( 28 ° 16 ' E ) in Asia Minor, to Cum Burnù ( Capo della Sabbia ) the Northeast extreme of the Island of Rhodes, through the island to Cape Prasonisi, the Southwest point thereof, on to Vrontos Point ( 35 ° 33 ' N ) in Skarpanto < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >, through this island to Castello Point, the South extreme thereof, across to Cape Plaka ( East extremity of Crete ), through Crete to Agria Grabusa, the Northwest extreme thereof, thence to Cape Apolitares in Antikithera Island, through the island to Psira Rock ( off the Northwest point ) and across to Cape Trakhili in Kithera Island, through Kithera to the Northwest point ( Cape Karavugia ) and thence to Cape Santa Maria () in the Morea.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

In the Middle East he solved the cases of Death on the Nile, and Murder in Mesopotamia with ease and even survived An Appointment with Death.