Beginning in the 1990s, development in Channahon took on a more upper middle-class bent, with subdivisions sprouting in the former gravel quarrying and dairy farming areas near the I & M Canal in the village's western areas, and a widely acclaimed, award winning public golf course opening in the hilly southeastern area of the village near I-55.

The village's lakefront is dominated by the 3. 0 mile long " Lake Path ," which is a public hiking trail running from the south end of Wells College to the Levana cliffs.

On its main street, Franklin Avenue, many of the village's main eateries, stores, and landmarks including the public library, can be found.

The village's public schools are run by the Elmsford Board of Education and include Dixon Primary, Alice E. Grady Elementary and Alexander Hamilton Junior / Senior High School.

Most of the village's public services are provided by contract with Grandview Heights, including police and fire, and it is included in the Grandview Heights School District and public library system.

In the elections of November 2007, Rebecca Hamilton and Greg Hostetler were elected to the village council, and Brad Hudson and Dean King were elected to the village's board of public affairs.

* Knutson Memorial Library, located on Main Street, is the village's public library.

Today the village's Shaker Cemetery is maintained by the township trustees and is open to the public ; while most of the settlement's buildings remain along Oxford Road, they are all privately owned.

* Herdman House now a private residence but built as the village's public library and gaming room, it at one time included a billiard hall and extensive library section before conversion to its present use

The village's public house is called the Half Moon and is noted as being one of two inns in 1577.

The village's single public house, now closed, was called the Rayleigh Arms, Lord Rayleigh being the title of the head of the Strutt baronage who live in the manor house, Terling Place.

The village's main public house was built in 1637 and was known as The Plough until 1798 when it was renamed The Lord Nelson in honour of the victory at the Battle of the Nile.

Located on the west side of the green, this was the village's major public building and landmark.

During the village's ' hey-day ', ten public houses over a half-mile ( 0. 8 km ) stretch of the High Street reflected the large mining population at the time

Every alternate Easter the residents of Cossington open their gardens to the public for two days for the ' Secret Gardens of Cossington ' in which the village's better gardeners show off their talents, with all the proceeds of ticket sales going to charity.

One of the village's unusual features is the Pack o ' Cards public house built around 1700 by George Ley.

The village's only public transport link is the number 31 / 131 bus service operated by First Glasgow to Milton and East Kilbride.

Prior to this the village was supplied by a series of shallow wells ( many of which still remain although bricked up under the village's more modern housing estates ), although there were three springs which fed public ponds at the Queen's Head, on Lexden Road, and near the White Hart, and there was a deep well at the brewery.

The village's only Indian restaurant is appropriately called The Four Counties Spice ; this used to be the village's only public house, which was appropriately called The Four Counties Inn.

This is the village's largest park and one of the larger parks in the local region.

In the swamp of the village's national park ' De Peel ' an ancient Roman centurion helmet was found.

The village's gathering place is the Diggins Community Building, a facility that also includes a park and playground.

The triangular park at the village's central area, containing the landmark spire of First Presbyterian Church and the 1887 county office building, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Church Park Historic District.

The village pub, the Spencer Arms is so-called in recognition of the village's association with the Spencer-Stanhope family who once owned large swathes of the local area: Their family home was situated at Cannon Hall, the park of which borders the village.

The village's business park is joined by the Capital Park on the site of the old hospital, which has many tens of thousands of square feet of office space.

The village's greatest hallmarks are the old blast furnace and the Adolfshütte industrial park.

Just by the car park of the Social Centre is another children ’ s play park which is overlooked by the Millennium Cross: a tall stone cross erected in 2000 and recording the village's Christian heritage.

The village's name originates from the relocation of people when the Ferrers family of Groby turned Bradgate into a deer park.

At the southern end of this is the car park which connects to a small lane that leads to the village's main road.

The parish has a Church of England primary school ( which bears the village's old name of Langley Fitzurse ), a village hall, playing field, a tennis court and a park.

He spent his first winter using his upside-down boat for shelter, which is reflected in the architecture of the village's Community Centre.

The village's center contains rock houses with balconies, and a village fountain is known as " Antana ' e Cartzonna ".

The reason for the Japanese name " harbor wave " is that sometimes a village's fishermen would sail out, and encounter no unusual waves while out at sea fishing, and come back to land to find their village devastated by a huge wave.

Chico is fascinated by Petra, one of the village's young women, while Bernardo begins to bond with three of the village's little boys.

* The Bull, the village's only pub following the closure of * The Cat and Fiddle * which was later converted into apartments, is perhaps the most recognisable structure in Ambridge.

Slane Wanderers is the village's local football club, whose home games are played in Wheatfield Park.

Adjacent to the hill, at the foot of the village's High Street, is the old Guildhall with a 14th-century undercroft.

Thurne is also home to the well-respected sailing club Theta, which has been accommodated here for over half a century and is now part of the village's character.

Because all property in the village is private land, the Sea Ranch Lakes Police Department is legally allowed to deny access to residential areas of the village to non-residents through the use of the village's main gate on Gatehouse Rd at A1A.

The village's name is derived from a Spanish term used to describe " The Gate ," after two huge wooden gates on Northeast Second Avenue that were taken down in the 1940s.

None of the village's land area is covered by water.

The village's name comes from a local landowner and businessman, Jefferson Hodgkins and is unrelated to the discoverer of Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Thomas Hodgkin.

It is unclear exactly how Hodgkins ' name came to replace Gary as the village's moniker.

The village's topography is mostly flat.

The boundary between the two municipalities is Austin Boulevard on the east side of Oak Park and North Avenue on the village's north side.

Cyrus Bunting is the village's current acting mayor.

The village's current mayor is Betty Duggan.

The village's slogan is " The Friendly Village with Country Charm.

* The village is also located along a branch of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, and thus many of the village's industries are near the railroad for convenient access to Elgin, Rockford, Chicago, and essentially the rest of the world.

The Aspen Drive Library in Vernon Hills is the village's first full-service library.

Forest Park Nature Center is a nature reserve on the bluff containing several miles of trails of varying difficulty and the village's only native prairie restoration site.