Nevertheless, Bacup's historic character, culture and festivities have encouraged the town's suburbanisation and redevelopment as a commuter town ; English Heritage has proclaimed Bacup as the best preserved cotton town in England, and its town centre is designated as a conservation area for its special architectural qualities.

The city is best known for the large natural cave opening located on the south side of Main Street, from which the town's name is derived.

The town's focus on tourism has threatened the town's designation as a National Historic Landmark District, a designation it earned in 1961 as " one of the best preserved specimens of the rugged frontier town of the 1870s and ' 80s.

Today the town's Portuguese heritage is best appreciated at the Annual Portuguese Feast, held at the Portuguese-American Club on Vineyard Avenue in mid-July.

This era of the town's history is best known from the novel Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell.

Among the town's other amenities are a public school, a hospital, several city parks, a skateboard park, a swimming pool and a public library that was recently named among the best in Washington State.

The town, which is located in the midst of the Appalachian Mountains, is best known as the site of a popular wintertime tubing resort known as Hawksnest, which claims it has the largest tubing facility on the East Coast, and some of the town's year round residents earn their living at the resort.

* Terry Waite, best known for having been held hostage for four years in Lebanon, but who has devoted his life to humanitarian causes, was born and lived for a short time in Bollington ; his father was the town's policeman.

A few years after the fire, William Camden described Nantwich as the " best built town in the county ", and particularly fine examples of timber-framed buildings constructed during the town's rebuilding include 46 High Street and the grade-I-listed Crown coaching inn.

The town's beaches on Lake Erie, most notably Crystal Beach and Bay Beach, are considered the best in the area and draw many weekend recreationists from the Toronto and Buffalo areas.

Its stock of Regency and Classical Revival buildings, considered the best in the country from the post-war of 1812 period, led the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to recommend that the town's historic district be designated a National Historic Site of Canada, a designation which was approved in 2003.

It opened the opportunity for the municipality of Gubat to showcase the town's best ,” the QRES stated.

A major bequest to the town's Eastern Southland Art Gallery by Dr. John Money has left the institution with one of the country's best collections of ethnological art.

It is also the home of the music showcase that takes place during the town's " Gold Hill Fair ", which takes place in early July and provides a platform for the best of local music.

According to some researchers, the town's mineral water is the 3rd best in Europe, primarily due to the natural selenium it contains.

The town's best known product is Quimper faïence pottery.

The finished product is one of the best examples of an 18th century new town in Scotland, and the vast majority of the properties in the centre of Inveraray are considered worthy of protection because of the town's architectural significance.

Public education in Utuado is the best fit to the town's economical reality.

Still, Dudley tried his best until the town's walls were crumbling under French bombardment and the Queen permitted him to surrender honourably in July 1563 on account of the plague that was decimating his troops.

: Chuck is Mark's best friend and president of the town's Ace Lightning fan club, as well as being a computer expert who regularly provides useful information to Mark about the Ace Lightning video game.

The town's best known structure is a joint single-lane road-rail bridge spanning the Awatere River which was in service until October 2007.

During the 1980s, Grand's men's club became the town's best, playing in the Second Division, the tier above Glimt.

Calle Santander, the town's most prominent Street is home to some of the best bargains in Guatemala.

On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as " Annsarbour "; this represents the earliest known use of the town's name.

The town's inhabitants are known as Barcelonnettes.

In Israel it is also a tradition to arrange festive parades, known as Ad-D ' lo-Yada, in the town's main street.

This council, known to have existed as early as 1317, was given the job of administering the town in its care through law and legislation, and of handling the town's revenue.

More construction work began in 2006 on the same section of by-pass by Bennett's development company on a much-debated piece of land on the town's fringe known as The Foldgate.

In 919 Edward the Elder built the town's first known fortress, on the south side of the River Ouse and there received the area's submission.

Today it is one of the major seaside resorts in the country, known for the Apollonia art and film festival ( which takes place in early September ) that is named after one of the town's ancient names.

Schneider built the town's first road, from his home to the corner of King Street and Queen Street ( then known as Walper corner ).

It is also known as the William A. Koch Memorial Highway, named for the local developer who pushed much of the town's development, as assisted the creation of nearby Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.

Bath later became known as Berkeley Springs, primarily because the town's post office took that name ( combining Governor Norborne Berkeley's last name with the warm springs found there ) to avoid confusion with another post office, located in southeastern Virginia, which was already called Bath.

In the town's main street is the prominent and beautifully renovated Bank of Ireland known also as Harrison Hall.

The Woodbridge Quay Church in Quay Street, once known as the Quay Meeting House, took its present form when the town's Baptist and United Reformed congregations merged in 2006.

The town's museum now known as The Mo includes a collection of old lifeboats, various displays, a viewing tower and houses the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm visitor centre.

In medieval times Cottbus was known for wool, and the town's drapery was exported all over the Brandenburg, Bohemia and Saxony.

Lawrence was targeted due to the town's long support of abolition and its reputation as a center for Redlegs and Jayhawkers, which were free-state militia and vigilante groups known for attacking and destroying farms and plantations in Missouri ’ s pro-slavery western counties.

When the Rogersville Post Office was established on October 4, 1825 with Thomas Cunningham as the postmaster, the'd ' was dropped from the town's name and it has been known as Rogersville ever since.

Minto school's athletic teams are known as the Lakers due to the town's proximity to several lakes formed by the flow of the Tolovana River.

The town's name along with all the other various entities bearing the same name comes from the expansive area known as Paradise Valley, that spreads from north of the Phoenix mountains to Cave Creek & Carefree on the north and the McDowell Mountains to the east.

Originally known as Cold Springs Ranch, the town's name changed upon establishment of the post office in 1902.

Niantic's population doubles in the summer months for the beach season, and it's a much higher density than the more sparsely populated Flanders side of town, which is known for its apple orchards, the town's high school, and forest.

The Green's features include an old-fashioned penny candy and antiques store known to locals as the ' Red and White '; the town's original 19th century town hall, now an arts center ; the ' Old Tolland Jail ' museum ; the ' Tolland Inn ' bed and breakfast ; and the Hicks-Stearns Museum, a restored Victorian house.

Col. Friedrich Franz Karl Hecker, whose farm was near Summerfield, Illinois in adjacent St Clair County, was known to and well respected by the town's inhabitants, and they decided to honor him by naming the town after him.

In 1875 work was begun on the town's second railroad, the Anderson, Lebanon and St. Louis, later known as the Midland.

Protivin holds an annual weekend festival known as Czech Days each August where the town's Czech heritage is celebrated.