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town and county
The streets of any county town were like this on any sunshiny afternoon in summer ; ;
Not only his parishioners, but the whole town and, ultimately, the whole county were enormously impressed by this object lesson.
* Forfar, the county town and administrative centre
Chapter 28 of the 1535 Act of Henry VIII, which provided that Monmouth, as county town, should return one burgess to Parliament, further stated that other ancient Monmouthshire boroughs were to contribute towards the payment of the member.
It was formerly the county town of Cornwall until the Crown Courts moved to Truro which is also the administrative centre ( before 1835 the county town was Launceston ).
Cambridge is the county town of Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
The county covers an area of 1, 691 km² ( 653 sq ; mi ), with a population of approximately 57, 527, with Enniskillen its county town.
A county town is a county's administrative centre in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
County towns are usually the location of administrative or judicial functions, or established over time as the de facto main town of a county.
The concept of a county town eventually became detached from its original meaning of where the county administration is based ( see County halls below ).
Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon.
Dedham () is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
It is the seat of local government for Fermanagh District Council, and is also the county town of Fermanagh as well as its largest town.
Captain Cole was installed as Constable and strengthened the castle wall and built a " fair house " on the old foundation as the centrepoint of the county town.
Hastings () is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England.
The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86, 900.
However, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1011 relates that Vikings overran " all Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Haestingas ", indicating the town was still considered a separate ' county ' or province to its neighbours 240 years after Offa's conquest.

town and were
They were going to town, and they were both excited.
Cows were kept in backyard barns, boys were hired to drive them to and from the pasture on the edge of town, and familiar to the ear, morning and evening, were the boys' coaxing voices, the thud of hooves, and the thwack of a stick on cowhide.
as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.
It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.
They were aware that soldiers went to town, in more ways than one, because of the monotony of camp life, to find the only release available in the absence of movies, reading rooms, and playing fields with adequate athletic equipment.
When Sir Edward Greville enclosed the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and others leveled his hedges on January 21, 1600/1, and were charged with riot by Sir Edward.
The inmates were white and from out of town, avoiding local friction.
The operations of its other plant in Rochdale and Leesona's former operations in Manchester were transferred to a recently acquired plant in the adjoining town of Heywood.
What in the world were you going to do with a lot of dogs when you left for town on Monday afternoons??
No figures were submitted with the report and no action was taken on it by the town.
He had assumed that all these buildings had been divided into apartments, but this one, from a glance at the hall furnishings, was obviously still a functioning town house, and its owners were in residence ; ;
The theme is also present in the many other nameless citizens who are separated from loved ones in other towns or from those who happened to be out of town when the gates of Oran were closed.
Several engagements took place outside the town and the Romans were eventually victorious.
Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.
The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.
Choosing to resist, their town was besieged and conquered ; the males were put to death and the women sold into slavery ( see Melian dialogue ).
From 1590 onward, its stones were raided for buildings in the town of Arbroath.
During the latter half of the 19th century, considerable public improvements were made to the town, which became, despite its neighbouring collieries, a pleasant place to live.
They were able to open the gate and allow a much larger party who set fire to the town and plundered its churches and homes leaving Abergavenny Castle intact.

town and named
The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.
It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.
Quilmes is the national brand of pale lager, named after the town of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, where it was first produced.
An area of the town is named ' Black Abbey ' a possible reference to the murders.
In historical times, around 300 BC it was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci, who named the town Burdigala, probably of Aquitainian origin.
Battles are usually named after some feature of the battlefield geography, such as the name of a town, forest or river, commonly prefixed " Battle of ...".
The name of the Bavarian town of Passau descends from the Roman Batavis, which was named after the Batavi.
The town is named for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer since 1952 has hosted an outdoor amphitheatre portrayal of the life and times of its namesake.
In their heyday, there were hundreds of building societies: just about every town in the country had a building society named after that town.
Brewers in Bohemia ( today's Czech Republic ) generally named a beer after their town with the suffix " er.
A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).
In 1966, the " Finn VC Estate " was named in honour of Victoria Cross winner James Henry Finn who once lived in the town.
One of them, Frederick Billings, thought of the lines of the Anglo-Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, ' westward the course of empire takes its way ,' and suggested that the town and college site be named for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish philosopher.
* Bannack, Montana, town named after the tribe, today a ghost town
The Swiss town of Vevey, where he was a resident during his final years, named a park in his honour in 1980 and erected a replica of the Doubleday statue there in 1982.
Coolidge's great-great-grandfather, also named John Coolidge, was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War and one of the first selectmen of the town of Plymouth Notch.
The town was known as Tiptonia, named in honor of General Tipton.
She was the daughter of Tommaso di Benvenuto da Pizzano ( Thomas de Pizan ; named for the family's origins in the town of Pizzano, south east of Bologna ), a physician, court astrologer, and Councillor of the Republic of Venice.
Dubnium ( ), is a chemical element with the symbol Db and atomic number 105, named after the town of Dubna in Russia, where it was first produced.
The Massachusetts General Court overruled them and named the town after Dedham, Essex in England, where some of the original inhabitants were born.
Shoudy named the town after his wife, Mary Ellen Shoudy, and officially began the city of Ellensburgh around 1872.
The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.

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