Arapawa Island is a small island located in the Marlborough Sounds, at the north east tip of the South Island of New Zealand.

In 2012, Marlborough ranked # 1 ( of 24 ) in Connecticut Magazine's biannual ranking of Connecticut small towns, population 3, 500 to 6, 500.

During the Duke's march to the Danube Emperor Leopold I offered to make Marlborough a prince of the Holy Roman Empire in the small principality of Mindelheim.

Henry III held Parliament here, in 1267, when the Statute of Marlborough was passed ( this gave rights and privileges to small land owners and limited the right of the King to take possession of land ).

The Marlborough Express was bought in 1998 and a number of small community newspapers have also been acquired in recent times, including South Otago Newspapers.

* Clarence, New Zealand, small town in Marlborough

Marlborough is a small township located north west of the city of Rockhampton in central Queensland, Australia.

Clarence is a small town in Marlborough, in the South Island of New Zealand.

Renwick is a small town in Marlborough, New Zealand, close to the south bank of the Wairau River.

Seddon is a small town in Marlborough, New Zealand.

Ward is a small town in Marlborough, New Zealand.

It should not be confused with the Gray River, a small tributary of the Awatere River in Marlborough, nor with the much larger Grey River on the South Island's West Coast.

Although its eastern end is generally thought to be just south of Marlborough, this small section is named " Wansdyke " on Inkpen's enclosure award map of 1733.

Francis, with help from his uncle, bought the engineering business of John M Dunlop at Great Marlborough Street in Manchester city centre, including manufacturing pumps, presses, and small steam engines.

The Little Spotted Kiwi or Little Gray Kiwi, Apteryx owenii, is a small species of kiwi originally from New Zealand's South Island ( what is known is they used to live near Marlborough and where Tokoeka currently live ) that, around 1890 and 1910 was captured ( for conservation purposes ) and later released on Kapiti Island.

The Sounds are home to the entire breeding population of the rare and vulnerable Rough-faced Shag ( also known as the New Zealand King Cormorant ) which nests on a small number of rocky islets there.

But even the small rooms provided a sumptuous sound — Western 3, which measures only 34 ' × 14 ', was used by Brian Wilson for much of the recording of The Beach Boys ', Pet Sounds.

The band's early albums such as Journey to the Centre of the Eye, ... Sounds Like This and A Tab in the Ocean were obscure psychedelic rock albums that won the band a small but growing cult following, based largely on word of mouth.

Following a year of playing small pubs with the band, during which they gained a small following, he participated in the recording of Iron Maiden's demo, later released as The Soundhouse Tapes, on 31 December 1978, some tracks from which appeared in the charts of Neal Kay's Heavy Metal Soundhouse club, published weekly in Sounds.

The government also purchased 1. 3 million acres from large estate holders for subdivision and closer settlement by small farmers.

The ruins of the town may still be seen on Cape Balastra ; they cover seven small hills, and extend from an eastern to a western harbor ; on the southwestern hills are the remains of the medieval settlement of Polystylon.

Therefore a small village settlement likely constituted a social community, and spatial subdivisions of cities and other large settlements may have formed communities.

Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch and established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers, called Huys de Goede Hoop.

Island settlement in Scotland and Ireland is manifest through the entire range of possibilities ranging from entirely natural, small islets to completely artificial islets, therefore definitions will invariably remain contentious.

* Canterbury, Queensland, a small settlement

The UUA continues to provide services relating to ministerial settlement as well as a very small amount of the youth ( 14 – 20 ) and young adult ( 18 – 35 ) programming and services.

In early medieval Riez in upper Provence, alluvial silt from two small rivers raised the riverbeds and widened the floodplain, which slowly buried the Roman settlement in alluvium and gradually moved new construction to higher ground ; concurrently the headwater valleys above Riez were being opened to pasturage.

On 5 February 1869, George Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia, established a small settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin.

Allen and his family moved to Burlington in 1787, which was no longer a small frontier settlement but a small town, and much more to Allen's liking than the larger community that Bennington had become.

Although Emsworth started as a small settlement it soon grew to be larger and more important.

Subsequently, networks facilitating the process of money transfer and payment settlement between the consumer and the merchant grew from a small number of nationwide systems to the majority of payment processing transactions.

Christopher Columbus established a small settlement called La Navidad, near the modern town of Cap Haitien, built from the timbers of his wrecked ship Santa María, during his first voyage in December 1492.

Hastings was now a small fishing settlement, but it was soon discovered that the new taxes on luxury goods could be made profitable by smuggling, and the town was ideally located for that.

Rapid economic development was seen as necessary to make the railway pay, and since the African population was accustomed to subsistence rather than export agriculture, the government decided to encourage European settlement in the fertile highlands, which had small African populations.

Kesgrave remained a small agricultural settlement with just a church, inn and a few farmsteads for over 700 years.

Land's End () is a headland and small settlement in west Cornwall, England, within the United Kingdom.

She described Malden as containing " a little settlement fronted by a big wooden pier, and a desolate plain of low greyish-green herbage, relieved here and there by small bushes bearing insignificant yellow flowers ".

Brazilian law establishes no difference between cities and towns ; all it takes for an urban settlement to be called a " city " is to be the seat of a municipality, and some are very small.

The earliest settlement at Mehrgarh — in the northeast corner of the site — was a small farming village dated between 7000 BCE to 5500 BCE and the whole area covers a number of successive settlements.

Human settlement of the New World occurred in stages from the Bering sea coast line, with an initial 15, 000 to 20, 000-year layover on Beringia for the small founding population.

There was no native population to oppose a settlement on Norfolk Island, which also possessed those desirable natural resources, but the island was too small of itself to sustain a colony.

Leaving a small force on the northern shore of the broad estuary, Cabot proceeded up the Río Paraná uneventfully for about 160 kilometres and founded a settlement he named Sancti Spiritu.

Deforestation ( only a small portion of the original forest remains because of burning and clearing for settlement )