The half an hour journey to the centre of Edinburgh helped build on the existing popularity of the village, though it put the steamers out of business.

Prince George is the largest city in the northern part of the province, while a village northwest of it, Vanderhoof, is near the geographic centre of the province.

Fierce hand-to-hand fighting gradually forced the French towards the village centre, in and around the walled churchyard which had been prepared for defence.

Realising his tactical mistake had contributed to Tallard's defeat in the centre, Clérambault deserted Blenheim and the 27 battalions defending the village, and reportedly drowned in the Danube while attempting to make his escape.

The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing, with the crop being transported on the Cheddar Valley line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path.

While Axbridge grew in importance as a centre for cloth manufacturing in the Tudor period and gained a charter from King John, Cheddar remained a more dispersed mining and dairy-farming village.

) In the region the city centre is called ' het dorp ' which means ' the village '.

Along the coast lies Karfas ( Καρφάς ), a sandy beach, which along with the nearby village of Ayia Ermioni ( Άγια Ερμιόνη ) is now the main tourist centre, with a number of large and small hotels.

The Nuorese was a centre of the Nuragic civilization ( which developed in Sardinia from c. 1500 BC to c. 250 BC ), as attested by more than 30 Nuragic sites, such has the village discovered in the countryside of Tanca Manna, just outside Nuoro, which was made of about 800 huts.

However, the distinctive culture surrounding country pubs, that of functioning as a social centre for a village and rural community, has been changing over the last thirty or so years.

* François Arago ( 1786 – 1853 ), the physicist, astronomer and liberal politician, who secured the abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1853, was born in the nearby village of Estagel ( Estagell ) and is memorialized in the eponymous Place Arago that bears his statue in the centre of the town.

In the village centre are a range of shops, including one of the first-established Superquinn stores, banking facilities and pubs and restaurants, including the Shamrock Lodge on Seamus Ennis Road.

At the beginning of 2004, Adnams purchased land in neighbouring village of Reydon to expand its business with a new distribution centre, designed by architect Jeremy Blake, which was nominated for the 2007 RICS East of England Award for Sustainability.

In the UK, the main historical distinction between a hamlet and a village was that the latter had a church, and so usually was the centre of worship for an ecclesiastical parish.

There is also an all-girls grammar school, Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, colloquially known as ' Shottery School ' after its location in the village of Shottery, a short distance from the town centre.

To the southwest of the town centre is Beckery, which was once a village in its own right but is now part of the suburbs.

In the village were the GWR Medical Fund Clinic at Park House and its hospital, both on Faringdon Road, and the 1892 health centre in Milton Road – which housed clinics, a pharmacy, laundries, baths, Turkish baths and swimming pools – was almost opposite.

In the centre of the village is Rawlins Community College, a 14-19 Comprehensive school.

Quorn is built around the old A6 road which runs through the centre of the village.

Manchester's gay village is within Greater Manchester's main central business district and is the centre for the city's pride events.

The attack would be made on a front of, with its centre opposite the village of Vimy, to the east of the ridge.

Fontevraud Abbey or Fontevrault Abbey ( in French: abbaye de Fontevraud ) is a religious building hosting a cultural centre since 1975, the Centre Culturel de l ' Ouest, in the village of Fontevraud-l ' Abbaye, near Chinon, in Anjou, France.

In the summer of 2007, a farm near the local village of Normandy, Surrey was the centre of a foot and mouth disease crisis amongst livestock.

Just below the confluence of the river is the old stone bridge with two arches in the centre of the village.

The neighborhood where the stadium is located is the Philipsdorp (' Philips village '), close to the centre of Eindhoven.

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

, a medieval festival commemorating local history has been held in the village once in every year since 2004, on a July weekend in the summer.

No one has lived in these houses since the time of the Famine, however the families that moved to Dooagh and their descendants, continued to use the village as a ' booley village '.

It has also been suggested that the name might be related to the ribat of Waggag ibn Zallu in the village of Aglu ( near present-day Tiznit ), where the future Almoravid spiritual leader Abdallah ibn Yasin got his initial training.

The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.

According to the 2006 population estimate, the village has a population of 1, 680.

The village has a cricket team ( Pentwyn CC ) and is located right next to the old railway line.

The village has superb views over the River Severn and Newport to the south.

Land selection by the state of Alaska under the Statehood Act and for the regional and village corporations has continued through the present.

:* St. Louis has annual festivals in both the Soulard neighborhood and the former French village of Carondelet, Missouri which include reenactments of the beheading of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, as well as reconstructed French fur trading posts.

The inn that inspired the novel, Jamaica Inn, has stood beside the main road through the village since 1547.

Bolventor parish was established in 1846 ( before that date the village was in St Neot parish ) but has now been merged with Altarnun.

The term community has two distinct commutive meanings: 1 ) Community usually refers to a social unit larger than a small village that shares common values.

The village, which has its own parish council, has a population of 5, 093 and the parish has an acreage of as of 1961.

The village also has a youth hostel, and a number of camping and caravan sites.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 6. 37 %) is water.

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

Upon returning to his village, Don Quixote announces his plan to retire to the countryside and live the pastoral existence of shepherd, although his housekeeper, who has a more realistic view of the hard life of a shepherd, urges him to stay home and tend to his own affairs.

The location of the village to which Cervantes alludes in the opening sentence of Don Quixote has been the subject of debate since its publication over four centuries ago.

In the village of Coniston, the Ruskin Museum has a small display of Donald Campbell memorabilia, and the Bristol Orpheus engine recovered in 2001 is also displayed.

In the Syrian village of Tedef, a shrine said to be the burial place of Ezra has been venerated by Jews for centuries.