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.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.

Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.

Azincourt is twinned with the English village of Middleham in North Yorkshire.

Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective.

Most of the families moved to the nearby village of Dooagh, which is beside the sea, while some others emigrated.

The village was completely abandoned which is where the name ' Deserted Village ' came from.

The school is involved in a study of the prehistoric and historic landscape at Slievemore, incorporating a research excavation at a number of sites within the deserted village of Slievemore.

It was during his early trips to Achill prior to the outbreak of World War I that Henri painted extensively and is reputed to have done portraits of almost all the children in Dooagh village.

There is a monument to him in his native village.

The tiny village is home to the Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer ( AIAS ).

There is also the traditional village politics of the Samoa Islands, the " faamatai " and the " faasamoa ", which continues in American Samoa and in independent Samoa, and which interacts across these current boundaries.

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.

" They must guard a village that is being shelled too heavily.

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

Portes is a fishing village on the east coast.

Aberdour (;, ) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland.

Aberfoyle () is a village in the region of Stirling, Scotland, northwest of Glasgow.

Pentwyn, Torfaen is a small village located in the district of Abersychan.

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

A small group of houses on Incline Road mark the beginning of the village and the village boundary is near Cwmavon.