As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.

Accrington is a hill town located at the western edge of the Pennines within a bowl and largely encircled by surrounding hills to heights of 300-400m.

In Australia, borough can designate a town and its surrounding area, such as the Borough of Queenscliffe.

Only Kawerau District, an enclave within Whakatane District, continues to follow the tradition of a small town council that does not include surrounding rural area.

It remained a relatively small walled medieval town during the 14th century and was under constant threat from the surrounding native clans.

Stanley has two taxi services which can be used for travel within the town and the surrounding areas.

Several factors figure into the decline: one is the fact that the average family nowadays consists of fewer people, so fewer people live in each house ; second, the town is virtually unable to expand because all the surrounding lands were sold to the Gooisch Natuurreservaat by city architect W. M.

The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the market town ( köping ) of Hultsfred ( instituted in 1927 ) with a number of surrounding municipalities.

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

In 1997 the majority of town VECs were absorbed by the surrounding county.

As part of this treaty, the border town of Leticia and its surrounding area was ceded from Peru to Colombia, giving Colombia access to the Amazon River.

In Portugal, a municipality is a directly elected local area authority generally consisting of a main city or town and surrounding villages, with wide-ranging local administration powers.

* In Puerto Rico, a municipality ( municipio ) consists of an urban area ( termed a city or town ) plus all of its surrounding barrios comprising the municipality.

When the southern provinces of the newly formed kingdom seceded in 1830 ( Belgian Revolution ), the Dutch garrison in Maastricht remained loyal to the Dutch king, William I of the Netherlands, even when most of the inhabitants of the town and the surrounding area sided with the Belgian revolutionaries.

The brewery itself is located very near to Faversham town centre, and it is possible to smell the brewing processes regularly in the town and surrounding streets.

The town of Bristol itself proved too strong for him, and Stephen contented himself with raiding and pillaging the surrounding area.

In 1870 French prisoners of war taken during the Franco-Prussian War were directed to build a chain of forts surrounding the town.

As a result of the immigration of new townsfolk from the surrounding villages a new settlement, later called Neustadt, grew up on the northeastern edge of the old town.

The British interest in reducing pirate attacks on British merchants lead to their creating a protectorate over the town of Aden in 1839, and adding the surrounding lands over the following years.

Task Force K-Bar conducted combat operations in the massive cave complexes at Zhawar Kili, the city of Kandahar and surrounding territory, the town of Prata Ghar and hundreds of miles of rough terrain in southern and eastern Afghanistan.

The town itself, with some contiguous pasture land, is then said to have been granted to the Levites of the clan of Kohath, while the fields of the city, as well as its surrounding villages were assigned to Caleb, who expels the three giants, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, who ruled the city.

The walls surrounding the town, which had been designed by Vauban, were razed in 1904 to accommodate urban development.

* Dover Community Radio Dover District's podcasting service, an online radio service for the town and surrounding area.

There are a number of cross country skiing trails in the forests surrounding the town.

Each of the larger burhs became the centre of a territorial district of considerable size, carved out of the neighbouring countryside in order to support the town.

These short ( often one small reel ) films were often simple visual aids and accompaniments to live lectures and speeches, and were carried from city to city, town to town, village to village ( along with the lecturers ) to indoctrinate the entire countryside, even reaching areas where film had not been previously seen.

** Naxalite Guerrilla War: Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist / Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside.

All the countryside around this town for about half a stage has villages in every direction, with vineyards and grounds producing grapes and apples called Jabal Nahra ... being fruit of unsurpassed excellence ... Much of this fruit is dried, and sent to Egypt.

The family moved to the countryside town of Steinau in 1791, where Philip was employed as district magistrate ( Amtmann ).

His letters speak mainly if the discrepancy between the poor peasants of the countryside and the institution of the wealthy in the town.

* Paul Arène ( 1843 – 1896 ), born in Sisteron, wrote about life and the countryside around his home town.

The North Norfolk Railway ( NNR )– also known as the " Poppy Line " – is a heritage steam railway in Norfolk, England, running between the coastal town of Sheringham and Holt, It cuts through the countryside to the east of Weybourne with views of its windmill and passes through the well preserved country station which also houses a locomotive shed together with a carriage maintenance and restoration centre.

The English destroyed the shipping in St. Malo harbour and began to assault the town by land on 14 August, but John was soon hampered by the size of his army, which was unable to forage because French armies under Olivier de Clisson and Bertrand du Guesclin occupied the surrounding countryside, harrying the edges of his force.

Horse rustlers and bandits from the countryside came to town and shootings were frequent.

In the countryside surrounding the town, there is evidence of iron age cave dwellings in Ham Woods, to the north-west, and a number of burial mounds have been identified at Beacon Hill, a short distance north of the town.

The countryside surrounding the town is mostly given over to farming, although there are a few areas of nearby woodland.

The Vanguard Way, a long-distance footpath from London to Newhaven, passes through countryside east of the town.

From atop the tower one can survey the town, the tiny harbor, the great panorama of the Baltic Sea, and much of Warmia's countryside.

The plans describe the rebuilding of the harbour as a marina, a " Green Wave " along the sea front linking countryside west and east of the town, new housing, shops, a performance area and small university campus.

The town is situated at the foot of the North Downs, with views of the surrounding countryside and the coast of France, a mere away.

According to Marxist historian Christopher Hill: The Civil War was a class war, in which the despotism of Charles I was defended by the reactionary forces of the established Church and conservative landlords, and on the other side stood the trading and industrial classes in town and countryside.

The commission described the system of administering urban and rural districts separately as outdated, noting that urban areas provided employment and services for rural dwellers, and open countryside was used by town dwellers for recreation.

The town grew as merchants and shopkeepers set up businesses to serve farmers and ranchers from the nearby countryside.

On 25 December 1835, Moses True of Salisbury, New Hampshire, John Tilden of Boston, Massachusetts, and Robert Smith of Alton, Illinois visited Lincoln and formed a company to plat a town and improve the surrounding countryside.

All of the able bodied people in town, and many from the surrounding countryside, joined in the fire fighting effort.

A repaired spiral staircase leads up to the top of the southeast corner tower, affording views of the surrounding town and countryside, including the original castle motte to the southwest.