Harwich () is a town in Essex, England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east.

The town became a naval base in 1657 and was heavily fortified, with Harwich Redoubt, Beacon Hill Battery, and Bath Side Battery.

Regarding the atmosphere of the town, he states: " Harwich is a town of hurry and business, not much of gaiety and pleasure ; yet the inhabitants seem warm in their nests and some of them are very wealthy ".

Despite, or perhaps because of, its small size Harwich is highly regarded in terms of architectural heritage, and the whole of the older part of the town, excluding Navyard Wharf, is a conservation area.

The house featured in the image of Kings Head St to the left, is unique in the town and is an example of a sailmaker's house, thought to have been built circa 1600. Notable public buildings, all later, include the parish church of St. Nicholas ( 1821 ) in a restrained Gothic style, with many original furnishings including a ( somewhat altered ) organ of the same date in the west end gallery, and the Guildhall of 1769, the only Grade I listed building in Harwich.

Harwich was the home town of Christopher Jones, the master and quarter-owner of the Mayflower, and was also a base for that ship.

Harwich is a New England town on Cape Cod, in Barnstable County in the state of Massachusetts in the United States.

The town of Harwich includes the villages of Pleasant Lake, West Harwich, East Harwich, Harwich Port, Harwich Center, North Harwich and South Harwich.

* In the summer, the town is host to the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

Harwich is governed by the open town meeting form of government, led by a town administrator and a board of selectmen.

There are two smaller non-municipal libraries – the Chase Library on Route 28 in West Harwich at the Dennis town line, and the Harwich Port Library on Lower bank St. in Harwich Port.

The town is also home to Holy Trinity Regional School, a Catholic school which serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grades in West Harwich.

There is no rail service in town but the Cape Cod Rail Trail rotary is located in North Harwich near Main Street.

During his childhood and adolescence, Shawn had lived in tough, blue-collar, urban towns like Rockland, Massachusetts and Brockton, Massachusetts before moving to the more quiet & small oceanside town of Harwich.

The town contains the remains of a medieval stone castle built soon after the Norman conquest of Wales.

The Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington contains an outstanding collection of Tiffany glassware presented to the town by Joseph Briggs, an Accrington man who had joined Tiffany ’ s in the late 19th century and eventually became art director and assistant manager.

The Roman name of the town of Exeter, Isca Dumnoniorum, contains the Celtic root * iska-" water " for " Water of the Dumnonii ".

The town contains many medieval and Elizabethan streetscapes and is a patchwork of narrow lanes and stone stairways.

The town also contains the villages of Etna and Hanover Center.

The west end of the town contains " the Mote ", the remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey.

A number of noteworthy coastal areas abut the Kattegat, including the Kullaberg Nature Reserve in Scania, Sweden, which contains a number of rare species and a scenic rocky shore, the town of Mölle, which has a picturesque harbour and views into the Kullaberg, and Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark.

The most famous of these is the multi-chambered Mammoth Cave, which lies 21 kilometres south of the town and contains fossils dating back over 35, 000 years.

A ghost town is an abandoned village, town or city, usually one which contains substantial visible remains.

The town centre contains many buildings that are in use by the University of Leiden.

Out of other settlements, the municipality also contains 29 rural settlements including villages as well as two urban settlements: the Inkerman City and the town of Kacha.

The Verulamium Museum is a sizeable museum run by the district council in Verulamium Park ( adjacent to St Michael's Church ) which contains much information about the town, both as a Roman and Iron Age settlement, plus Roman history in general.

Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps has made Como a popular tourist destination and the city contains numerous works of art, churches, gardens, museums, theatres, parks and palaces: the Duomo ( seat of Diocese of Como ), the Basilica of Sant ' Abbondio, the Villa Olmo, the public gardens with the Tempio Voltiano, the Teatro Sociale, the Broletto ( the city ’ s medieval town hall ) and the 20th century Casa del Fascio.

The county contains the town of Kilkenny, located at the center of the county, and the towns of Ballyragget and Castlecomer to the north of the county and Graiguenamanagh, Mooncoin, Callan and Thomastown to the south.

The town contains a fine parish church and a considerable number of listed buildings.

Approximately to the northeast of the town centre is Beacon Hill Wood ( owned by the Woodland Trust ), which is at the crossing of the Fosse Way and another Roman road which runs along the top of the Mendip Hills, and which contains a number of tumuli.

The Railway Land nature reserve is on the east side of the town next to the Ouse, and contains an area of woodland and marshes known as the Heart of Reeds.

The town hall, rebuilt in 1829, contains a collection of pictures.

Westward Ho !, which is the only town in the United Kingdom that officially contains an exclamation mark in its name, is approximately three miles ( 5 km ) from Bideford.

The town park Angiolina contains many species of plants from all over the world.

The county contains the University of Connecticut in the community of Storrs within the town of Mansfield.

The county contains many good examples of 18th, 19th and early 20th century rural and small town architecture.

The Australian and New Zealand Beckenhams were named after the town in London, and this association continues in the naming of adjacent areas: the town of Sydenham is next to Beckenham in London, the suburb of Sydenham adjoins the suburb of Beckenham in Christchurch, and the suburb of Beckenham in Perth contains a Sydenham Street.

This land is in various stages of development in several locations throughout the town.

The replies from each individual town are not given in detail because the questions asked the personal opinion of the several assessors and are not necessarily the established policy of the town in each case.

By the time his son Abraham was born, Thomas owned two farms, several town lots, livestock, and horses.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

The presence of several major manufacturers since the 19th century has given Albion the reputation of a factory town.

This has changed with the closure of several manufacturers, and Albion's culture is changing to that of a college town with a strong interest in technology and sustainability issues.

The show's best-known and Sondheim's biggest hit song was almost an afterthought, written several days before the start of out of town tryouts.

Once through the tollbooth, Lamarr's villains attack the fake town, which Bart boobytrapped with several dynamite bombs.

The town has been subject to several orders of natural disaster: floods and mudslides in 1994 and 2008, and landslides in 1996 and 1999.

His name means " comforter ," and he was from the town of Alqosh, ( Nahum 1: 1 ) which scholars have attempted to identify with several cities, including the modern ` Alqush of Assyria and Capharnaum of northern Galilee.

" Jim Rob ", as he became known, drifted for several years, traveling from town to town to try to earn a living, at one point almost losing his life when he nearly fell from a moving train, and later being chased by railroad police.

Additionally, from at least the 11th century and continuing for several centuries after that, there were several different circuits in the royal court system, served by itinerant judges who would travel from town to town dispensing the King's justice.

When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 146 ( Nov. 1952 ) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was renamed Omelet.

The Gröbenbach, which has its source south of Puchheim, runs through town coming from the south and merges into the Amper river at several locations near the festival grounds.

There were usually several futuwwah in each town.

Yale imposed high taxes for the maintenance of the colonial garrison and town, resulting in an unpopular regime and several revolts by Indians, brutally quelled by garrison soldiers.

The lateral fricative occurs as the ll of Welsh, as in Lloyd, Llewelyn, and the town of Machynlleth (), as the unvoiced ' hl ' and voiced ' dl ' or ' dhl ' in the several languages of Southern Africa ( such as Xhosa and Zulu ), and in Mongolian.

The town grew further in the 17th century when the Dutch economy as a whole entered its age of prosperity, and several canals were built connecting it indirectly to Amsterdam.

When Henry was six, the family moved several miles up the Allegheny River to the little town of Sharpsburg.

The town is also the home to the Hawksnest State Park, as well as a marina and several beaches, including two on Long Pond.