The Italian poet Attilio Bertolucci ( born in a hamlet in the countryside ) wrote: " As a capital city it had to have a river.

This road had started out in the Middle Ages as a lane running out from Berlin to the hamlet of Schöneberg, but it had developed into part of a trading route running right across Europe from Paris to St. Petersburg via Aachen, Berlin and Königsberg.

Araújo had to walk through the jungle for five days before being found by troops in the hamlet of San Agustin, north of Bogotá.

By the 14th century, a hamlet of fishermen's dwellings had established itself around the cove at Porthleven, named from the old Cornish " porth " ( harbour ) and " leven " ( level or smooth ).

The old town in the hilly inland was probably founded in the 10th century AD by some people from Locri, who had fled to the area to defend themselves from Saracen incursions ; in the following century it became a hamlet of the county of Grotteria and was home to various feudal lords.

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.

An alternative theory suggests the name may mean ' Cripple Well ', and that the settlement developed as a hamlet where people from the City of London were expelled when they had life threatening diseases like leprosy, for treatment by the church and the clean, healing waters from the wells.

An 1832 map shows that Tulse Hill still had only a few buildings on the new roads in contrast to nearby recently developed areas in Brixton and Norwood and the longer established hamlet of Dulwich.

According to the Grant County History book, the population of Ulysses had dwindled from that of a flourishing town to a hamlet of about 40 persons.

The hamlet had 2 mills and a store by 1845, and the town was platted to encourage residential growth.

* Rock City – A hamlet west of Milan village had a grist and saw mill and 20 houses in 1840.

What now comprises the village originally had two areas of settlement, Hart's Village and the hamlet of Mechanic.

The artistic history of the hamlet had faded away by mid-century the same as the sounds of laughter and frolic filling its lanes faded each September when the shutters closed and all but a few ' locals ' huddled-in for winter in the shadow of the mountain.

* Little France – A hamlet on the east town line, which had early settlers from France and French Canada.

* Maryland – The hamlet of Maryland is located on NY-7 ; it once had its own firehouse, usual stores, train station, a bobbin and acid factory.

The hamlet of Pittsfield, or " Pittsfield Centre ", had a unmanned whistlestop station and siding on the Ontario & Western RR branch to Edmeston from New Berlin, later purchased by the Unadilla Valley RR.

By the middle-19th century the hamlet had become a summer resort community.

By 1805 the town had grown sufficiently that a Methodist congregation was formed in the eponymous hamlet of Catharine.

While some sources report that the attorney had no known connection to the community, one newspaper reported in 1958 that Selden and attorney Edward Boyle ( the namesake for Boyle Road ) acquired a large tract of land in the hamlet shortly before the post office opened, and started to develop it.

Prior to 1866, when the first paper mill was built, Roaring Spring had been a grist mill hamlet with a country store at the intersection of two rural roads that lead to the mill near the spring.

Prior to 1866, when the first paper mill was built, Roaring Spring had been a grist-mill hamlet with a country store at the intersection of two rural roads that lead to the mill near the spring.

French reconnaissances had confirmed Saxe in his belief that the Allies would endeavour to relieve Tournai by attempting to force a passage from the south-east via the hamlet of Fontenoy and the small town of Antoing on the Scheldt.

In the tiny hamlet of Groot Marico in the northwest province, mate was introduced to the local tourism office by the returning descendants of the Boers, who in 1902 had emigrated to Patagonia in Argentina after losing the Anglo Boer War.

Around the end of the Roman era and at the beginning of the Merovingian period, the hamlet had become a fortified stronghold, then known as Héristal.

In Malaysia, the term kampung ( sometimes spelling kampong ) in the English language has been defined specifically as " a Malay hamlet or village in a Malay-speaking country ".

However, earlier settlements have been found in the areas of the modern day Moleneind, Vorstenburg and Bitswijk and evidence of ice-age settlements has been found near the hamlet of Slabroek.

When that happens the men drop what they are doing and go off from the deep southern hamlet of D ’ Lo, Miss .” The town has since been recognized with a monument located at the town ’ s community center which lists the names of all the D ’ Lo citizens who served during the war.

Through his efforts the Averill Park Land ' Improvement company was organized a few years ago, since which time the hamlet has been greatly improved.

The history of the hamlet has been shaped by waves of immigrants.

St. Norbert ’ s Church has always been the centerpiece of the hamlet and focal point of the community.

The number of houses in the hamlet has been increasing since the 1970s.

Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth ( not to be confused with Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir also in Lincolnshire ) has grown from a hamlet of several houses in the seventeenth century to a small village of several hundred houses today ; much of the original land once owned by Woolsthorpe Manor was sold to a nearby family, and some of the immediate open land has since been built upon.

It has been described as "... one of the most interesting in the county ", by Nikolaus Pevsner, the architectural historian Edlingham itself is little more than a hamlet with a church alongside the castle.

It has been suggested that it is Celtic: certainly many major rivers in England show pre-Anglo-Saxon origins, such as the Ouse and Avon ; the same name appears in the ' Neen ', the former name of the river Rea in Shropshire, which is retained in the hamlet of Neen Savage.

Traces of civilization have been found from the period of around 3000 BCE between the hamlet Hambos and adjacent Kelfs.

This is an ancient hamlet, but no research has been done to determine the relationship ( if any ) between these two place-names.

Neithrop was one of the oldest areas in Banbury, having first been recorded as a hamlet in the 13th century.

The area now occupied by Hither Green is thought to have originally been a hamlet called Romborough, which was wiped out in the Black Death.

Much of the history of the village is dominated by Glastonbury Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and indeed its name comes from a 12th century causeway from Glastonbury which was built to transport local Blue Lias stone from what is now Street to rebuild the Abbey, although it had previously been known as Lantokay and Lega ( note: there is a quite different small hamlet called Street in Somerset, just north of the village of Holcombe, with which this article is not concerned ).

California is a hamlet to the south side of Aylesbury town centre in Buckinghamshire in England, although today it has been completely swallowed up by the urban growth of Aylesbury.

As of November 2006 the building work has nearly finished and it is likely that the hamlet will be forgotten about as it has been completely swamped by Aylesbury's development.

In the dunes west of the decoy pond the remainders of an Iron Age hamlet have been found.

Since then that valley, and the hamlet on its western side to the north of Painswick have been called Paradise.

Today the hamlet has been completely swallowed up by the growth of Bierton village, though it is still marked on modern maps.

Today the hamlet of Burcott has been almost swallowed up by the growth of Wing, though it is still marked on modern maps, and on the road sign as you enter Wing from the Soulbury road.

Boveney was once a hamlet within the parish of Burnham, though has long since been considered a separate village, particularly since the urban growth of nearby Slough.