With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a tiny village in the English Lake District near Ambleside in 1905.

Visiting Hill Top every chance she got, Potter ’ s books written during this period ( such as The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, about the local shop in Near Sawrey and The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, a wood mouse ) reflect her increasing participation in village life and her delight in country living.

The eight books in the series starting with the Tale of Hill Top Farm ( 2004 ) deal with her life in the Lake District and the village of Near Sawrey between 1905 and 1913.

* Near the Gloucestershire village of Uley, Downham Hill is locally known as " Smallpox Hill " for its possible role in Jenner's studies of the disease.

Near Port Stanley, there is an Indian village dating from the 16th century known as the Southwold Earthworks where as many as 800 Neutral Indians once lived ; the archaeological remains include double earth walls winding around the grass – covered perimeter.

Near the village are many remains of ancient buildings, Egyptian, Greek and Roman.

Near the village are two points of interest, the Crenshaw House and the Garden of the Gods Wilderness.

Near the village is a shallow lake, called " Het Leekstermeer " ( also called Zulthemeer ), with recreational facilities.

Near Piscatawaytown village, a portion of the Township was informally known as " Nixon ," after Lewis Nixon, a manufacturer and community leader.

Near the village of Oliver is the smallest of Uniontown's three shopping districts.

Near the Allegheny Mountain village of Jumonville, the Battle of Jumonville Glen took place.

Near the station are the village primary school ( a large red sandstone Grade B listed Art Nouveau building dating from 1912 to 1914 ), a small general store and a community centre ( all in Brock Street ).

Near the Cowie Bridge, at the north of Stonehaven, was a prior historic fishing village known as Cowie, which area has now been subsumed into Stonehaven.

Near the village of St. Christoph, the two Austrian grenadier battalions sent by Kollowrat stumbled upon Richepanse's marching column, cutting his division in half.

Milos natural glass used for razor sharp " stone tools " was transported well before farming began and later: " There is no early farming village in the Near East that doesn't get obsidian ".

Near the village of Taginae ( traditionally located somewhere to the north of modern Gualdo Tadino ), Narses encountered the Ostrogothic army commanded by King Totila, who had been advancing to intercept him.

Near the site of modern Preveza in 290 BC King Pyrrhus of Epirus founded the town of Berenikea or Berenike, named after his mother-in-law Berenice I of Egypt., Today it is believed that Berenikea lies on the hills of the village of Michalitsi village, following the excavations of Sotirios Dakaris in 1965.

Near to the Pasarel dam, in the village of Dolni Pasarel, is located the " St. Peter and Pavel " monastery.

Near the small village Mithi, about 3 miles ( 5 km ) from Myrtos lies the Sarakina Gorge.

Near the base of the Rupal Face is a beautiful glacial lake called Latbo, above a seasonal shepherds ' village of the same name.

Near the village there is a graveyard with graves dating back to the Bronze Age.

Near Olympos, located in the neighbouring village of Çıralı and about 200 metres above sea level, the eternal flames called the Chimaera may be seen issuing from the ground.

Near this village there was once a royal hunting-box, where both King Edward I and King Edward II were known to have resided.

Hill Top, Near Sawrey – Potter's former home, now owned by the National Trust and preserved as it was when she lived and wrote her stories there.

Ethnographical fieldwork was carried out in places as diverse as New Guinea, Madagascar, Romania, Guatemala and Indonesia and there were excavations in the Near East, Egypt, Sudan and the UK.

However, the collapse of the Near Eastern trading system pointed to a flaw: in an era where there was no place that was safe to store value, the value of a circulating medium could only be as sound as the forces that defended that store.

Near the Senegal border there have been historic sightings of the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus, but that endangered canid may now be extirpated in that locale.

Near the south-east shore of Lake Malawi there is a high range ( with an abrupt descent to the lake-some in.

Near Torzhok there was a similar situation, as increased air traffic was created by a rescue effort for an air crash that had happened the previous day.

Near the coast there are areas where the dunes are vegetated with hammocks.

Near the end of her time as governor general, Adrienne Clarkson stated: " My constitutional role has lain in what are called ' reserve powers ': making sure that there is a prime minister and a government in place, and exercising the right ' to encourage, to advise, and to warn '[...] Without really revealing any secrets, I can tell you that I have done all three.

Although there are depictions of sieges from the ancient Near East in historical sources and in art, there are very few examples of siege systems that have been found archaeologically.

Nevertheless, there is some consensus that iron technology originated in the Near East, perhaps in Eastern Anatolia.

Near Lake Victoria there are flood plains developed from ancient lakebeds.

* Near to Hawarden in the town of Mancot, there is a small hospital named after Catherine Gladstone.

This period followed the Bronze Age collapse in the Near East, and the century saw the Early Iron Age take hold there.

Near the end of the short election campaign, there appeared in the press the text of a letter purporting to have originated from Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Executive Committee of the Communist International ( Comintern ) and Arthur MacManus, the British representative to ECCI, and addressed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Near the center of the caldera there is a mound called the " resurgent dome " that was formed by magmatic uplift.

Near Barrage Cavagnac, there is a hydroelectric dam that has created the artificial lake Lalla Takerkoust.

Near Regensburg there are two very imposing Classical buildings, erected by Ludwig I of Bavaria as national monuments to German patriotism and greatness.

Near Glacier Point there is 2, 000 feet ( 600 m ) of mostly glacial sediment with at least six separate sequences of Lake Yosemite sediments.

Near the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was an effort to extend the province system of China proper to the rest of the empire.

In the Ancient Near East along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers there were many shrines and temples or " houses of heaven " dedicated to various deities documented by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus in The Histories where sacred prostitution was a common practice.

Near Van, there is a longwave broadcasting station with a 250 metres tall guyed mast.

There were many stretches of sun-scorched desert in Near Harad, but there was supposedly a jungle beyond it which few had ever ventured to, from which the great Oliphaunts were found.

Near the site there is now a museum, and monuments of remembrance of those transported and killed during World War II.