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The town of Selby, a sizeable town on the main route north from the Midlands, is the traditional birthplace of King Henry I, fourth son of William the Conqueror, in 1068 / 69 ; the connection is supported by William and his wife Matilda's unique joint charter of Selby Abbey, far to the north of their usual circuit of activities, which was founded for Benedict of Auxerre in 1069 and subsequently supported by the de Lacy family.
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The suffix "- by " for ' town ' is common in place names in Yorkshire and the East Midlands that is, Selby, Whitby, Derby and Grimsby.
To prevent Sir Thomas rejoining Lord Fairfax in Hull, Belasyse occupied the town of Selby which lay between them.
A number of kinescopes from 1966, the year Guiding Light < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > setting shifted from Selby Flats, California to the Midwestern town of Springfield, were uploaded to a number of websites including the now-defunct World of Soap Themes website.
Selby Abbey in Yorkshire, Benedictine abbey, purchased by the town as a parish church
The off-center connection of Selby Road to Forest Hill Boulevard explains the sweeping curve of Forest Hill Boulevard through the town.
Selby Abbey is an Anglican parish church in the town of Selby, North Yorkshire.
Selby is a town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.
Archaeological investigations in Selby have revealed extensive remains, including waterlogged deposits in the core of the town dating from the Roman period onwards.
Selby is expanding to become a larger town.
At the lowest level of governance Selby has a town council.
At district level the town is part of the Selby District Council area.
On the North Yorkshire County Council the town is part of the Selby Barlby county division which elects two representatives to the county council.
For many years the swing bridge in Selby was a notorious local bottleneck but since the opening of the Selby bypass congestion in the town has been relieved.
The importance of Selby as a market town has declined in recent decades and its short lived prominence as the centre of the Selby Coalfield has also waned.
Selby is a commuter town with proximity to both York and Leeds.
Its popularity as a tourist destination, due to Selby Abbey, has led to a large amount of development and renovation in the town and surrounding area.
In recent years, Selby has seen the development of new shopping areas both in the town centre and on the outskirts.
The town of Selby is associated with the so-called Selby rail crash, which happened a few miles south of Selby at a village called Great Heck near the M62 motorway.
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On both sides of the road, the local settlement, Bonna, grew into a sizeable Roman town.
Bayreuth (; ) is a sizeable town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains.
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.
In addition, in common with many other parts of North West London, the area is also home to a sizeable Jewish community ; Jews make up 11. 38 % of the population and Hatch End has two synagogues ( and a third in Pinner town centre ) and a kosher butcher.
It is thought these developments will spur growth on an end of town that has a sizeable, affluent population ( both in and outside the city near the lake ) but has been underserved by commercial development.
The presence of Sharon Hospital, a sizeable regional hospital, has led to Sharon being birthplace to several people who did not live in the town:
Formerly a largely rural and agrarian community, the town now lies well within the " travel to work " radius of Morpeth and Newcastle Upon Tyne and has a sizeable commuter population.
Cuero's population grew considerably in the 1870s and 1880s, as residents from the coastal town of Indianola, Texas settled here after major hurricanes in this period destroyed sizeable portions of that city.
Documentary evidence for the history of the river is scarce, compared to the neighbouring River Lark and River Little Ouse, both of which had a sizeable town at the head of navigation, whereas the Wissey does not.
The next sizeable place is the market town of Stone.
In the early 20th century it was composed of two parts — the old walled town at the bridge over the Euripus, where a number of Turkish families continued to live until the late 19th century, and a sizeable Jewish community lived until World War II, and the more modern suburb that lies outside it, chiefly occupied by Greeks.
The nearest sizeable town to Southam is Leamington Spa, located roughly 7 miles ( 11 km ) to the west.
This is the closest sizeable town, though Sandhurst is also only south of the new town of Bracknell.
Hoddesdon is the only small town in Britain with a sizeable Italian community.
Following the post World War II arrival of immigrants from the Commonwealth group of nations into Britain, a sizeable Black Caribbean and Indian / Pakistani community grew up in this small market town, and now represents 7 % of the population in the Borough and to 11 % within the town.
By 1900 Welsh was still spoken by a sizeable minority west of the town of Rhayader, the language disappearing as the century progressed.
Unlike most new towns which were either completely newly built or based around small villages, Irvine was already a sizeable town which had been a Royal Burgh since 1372.
There is also a sizeable British Telecom call centre and a plant making special lithium-ion batteries for the MOD on the west side of the town, which along with the Dounreay Nuclear power plant, provide a high level of employment in Caithness.
The town was divided in July 1920, by the Spa Conference, a body formed by the Versailles Treaty, leaving a sizeable Polish community on the Czechoslovak side.
Japanese intelligence agents posing as photographers and hairdressers had been feature of every sizeable town in the peninsular for the past three years.
The town has a sizeable sand quarrying industry.
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McBride gave him his opportunity when he showed up in town with a pistol on his hip.
They reined in before the town marshal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street.
The streets of any county town were like this on any sunshiny afternoon in summer ; ;
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.
He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.
There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.
Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.
Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.
This town should not be confused with Pawtucket, just north of Providence, or Pawcatuck, Connecticut, on the Pawcatuck River, opposite Westerly, Rhode Island.
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 clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.
She signed the letters quickly, stamped them, and placed them on the hall table for Raphael to mail in town.
When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.
Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.
To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.
However, few are taxed, and the owners and location of most boats are unknown to the assessors on the date of assessment of town valuations.
Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.
He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.
Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.
What in the world were you going to do with a lot of dogs when you left for town on Monday afternoons??
in the double sentence the smaller the town, the friendlier the people it will generally be on the subjects the town and the people.
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