The half an hour journey to the centre of Edinburgh helped build on the existing popularity of the village, though it put the steamers out of business.

Prince George is the largest city in the northern part of the province, while a village northwest of it, Vanderhoof, is near the geographic centre of the province.

Fierce hand-to-hand fighting gradually forced the French towards the village centre, in and around the walled churchyard which had been prepared for defence.

Realising his tactical mistake had contributed to Tallard's defeat in the centre, Clérambault deserted Blenheim and the 27 battalions defending the village, and reportedly drowned in the Danube while attempting to make his escape.

The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing, with the crop being transported on the Cheddar Valley line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path.

While Axbridge grew in importance as a centre for cloth manufacturing in the Tudor period and gained a charter from King John, Cheddar remained a more dispersed mining and dairy-farming village.

) In the region the city centre is called ' het dorp ' which means ' the village '.

Along the coast lies Karfas ( Καρφάς ), a sandy beach, which along with the nearby village of Ayia Ermioni ( Άγια Ερμιόνη ) is now the main tourist centre, with a number of large and small hotels.

The Nuorese was a centre of the Nuragic civilization ( which developed in Sardinia from c. 1500 BC to c. 250 BC ), as attested by more than 30 Nuragic sites, such has the village discovered in the countryside of Tanca Manna, just outside Nuoro, which was made of about 800 huts.

However, the distinctive culture surrounding country pubs, that of functioning as a social centre for a village and rural community, has been changing over the last thirty or so years.

* François Arago ( 1786 – 1853 ), the physicist, astronomer and liberal politician, who secured the abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1853, was born in the nearby village of Estagel ( Estagell ) and is memorialized in the eponymous Place Arago that bears his statue in the centre of the town.

In the village centre are a range of shops, including one of the first-established Superquinn stores, banking facilities and pubs and restaurants, including the Shamrock Lodge on Seamus Ennis Road.

At the beginning of 2004, Adnams purchased land in neighbouring village of Reydon to expand its business with a new distribution centre, designed by architect Jeremy Blake, which was nominated for the 2007 RICS East of England Award for Sustainability.

In the UK, the main historical distinction between a hamlet and a village was that the latter had a church, and so usually was the centre of worship for an ecclesiastical parish.

There is also an all-girls grammar school, Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, colloquially known as ' Shottery School ' after its location in the village of Shottery, a short distance from the town centre.

To the southwest of the town centre is Beckery, which was once a village in its own right but is now part of the suburbs.

In the village were the GWR Medical Fund Clinic at Park House and its hospital, both on Faringdon Road, and the 1892 health centre in Milton Road – which housed clinics, a pharmacy, laundries, baths, Turkish baths and swimming pools – was almost opposite.

In the centre of the village is Rawlins Community College, a 14-19 Comprehensive school.

Quorn is built around the old A6 road which runs through the centre of the village.

Manchester's gay village is within Greater Manchester's main central business district and is the centre for the city's pride events.

The attack would be made on a front of, with its centre opposite the village of Vimy, to the east of the ridge.

Fontevraud Abbey or Fontevrault Abbey ( in French: abbaye de Fontevraud ) is a religious building hosting a cultural centre since 1975, the Centre Culturel de l ' Ouest, in the village of Fontevraud-l ' Abbaye, near Chinon, in Anjou, France.

In the summer of 2007, a farm near the local village of Normandy, Surrey was the centre of a foot and mouth disease crisis amongst livestock.

Just below the confluence of the river is the old stone bridge with two arches in the centre of the village.

The neighborhood where the stadium is located is the Philipsdorp (' Philips village '), close to the centre of Eindhoven.

The city contains a picturesque Medieval and Renaissance historic centre, with ancient buildings such as Trento Cathedral and the Castello del Buonconsiglio.

By the end of the 18th century, the town had become a popular centre for visitors undertaking the " Wye Tour ", an excursion by boat through the scenic Wye Valley taking in the picturesque sights of Ross-on-Wye, Goodrich, Tintern, Chepstow and elsewhere.

The centre is picturesque and its streets are interesting for predominant remains of historical architecture, especially from the Romanesque period.

The city centre is a late 19th century concentration of wooden houses, which enjoys a picturesque location overlooking the northern part of lake Mjøsa and the river Lågen, surrounded by mountains.

Harlow new town and the rebuilding of Coventry city centre are said to show the influence of the Festival Style " in their light structures, picturesque layout and incorporation of works of art ", and Coventry Cathedral ( 1962 ), designed by Basil Spence, one of the Festival architects, was dubbed " The Festival of Britain at Prayer ".

* The centre of Hasselt is picturesque, with a town hall built between 1550 and 1615 and several old houses ( 1650-1800 ).

The Markiezenhof Palace, built in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, houses a cultural centre and a museum with a picturesque courtyard, paintings, period rooms, and temporary exhibitions.

Celle is the southern gateway to the Lüneburg Heath, has a castle ( Schloss Celle ) built in the renaissance and baroque style and a picturesque old town centre ( the Altstadt ) with over 400 timber-framed houses, making Celle one of the most remarkable members of the German Timber-Frame Road.

The region around Pinhão and São João da Pesqueira is considered to be the centre of port production, and is known for its picturesque quintas — farms clinging on to almost vertical slopes dropping down to the river.

Suure-Jaani is situated in a hilly region ( Sakala Upland ), offering picturesque views with its park, artificial lakes and church in the centre of the town.

The parish church, St Mary's, stands on the picturesque green in the centre of the village.

* Corfe Castle is in the centre of the Isle, with its picturesque village named after it.

The broad verge down the centre of Petherton Road leads to Essex Road, where another semi-redundant section of the New River's course between Canonbury and Islington town centre forms a picturesque walk alongside the now shallow stream.

Santarém has a picturesque city centre with several monuments, including the largest and most varied ensemble of gothic churches in Portugal.

The village atmosphere, along with good cafes, and large parklands located in the centre of the shopping area adjacent to the train station, has led Oatley to be commonly mentioned as the most picturesque shopping village in the St George area.

The club's home ground, Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, is situated in a picturesque park located in the centre of the city, close to the Dnieper River bank.

Xanten is known for the Archaeological Park or archaeological open air museum ( one of the largest in the world ), its medieval picturesque city centre with Xanten Cathedral and many museums, its large man-made lake for various watersport activities as well as high standard of living.

At the centre of the village is a large square known as the ' Borough ' around which are grouped picturesque cottages and a public house, the Phelips Arms ; there is a second public house and hotel situated in the village, called the King's Arms.

The picturesque Kanturk Town Park is a short distance from its shopping centre, crossing the Kanturk Bridge and left into the O ' Brien Street, then entering the park at the Unity Stone monument, the park displays some fine oak, beech, chesnut and ash trees, incorporating a children's playground, some cultural exhibits, as well as a leisurely walk by the scenic banks of the Dalua.

Nearby is Glebe Park, a picturesque park near the centre of the city with elm trees and oaks from early European settlement before the city was founded.

The rows of redundant steam locomotives were a picturesque sight for holidaymakers travelling to Barry Island, and became a centre for pilgrimage for steam enthusiasts from the emerging steam railway preservation movement.

The town has 2 motels, 4 schools, a preschool, ABC Learning Centre, 2 hotels and 2 caravan parks as well as eating-places, a swimming pool, a picturesque 9-hole golf course, bowling club, tennis courts, a modern sporting complex, a hostel for the aged and a new medical centre.

The historic village centre area around the well includes the war memorial, a cluster of picturesque cottages and St. Edith's Hall, the front of which is adorned with a statue of the saint and a clock which chimes the hours and bears the inscription: