Rhossili ( Welsh: Rhosili ) () is a small village and community on the southwestern tip of the Gower Peninsula near Swansea in Wales.

Despite its relatively remote position, Rhossili is a popular tourist destination: the views from the headland and the Down are panoramic ; several pleasant walks begin, end, or pass through the village ; Iron Age remains are found on Rhossili Down ; and the 4 mile ( 6. 4 km ) long beach attracts surfers, particularly at the Llangennith ( northern ) end.

Rhossili Bay curves along an arc running northwards from the village.

Behind the beach just north of the village is Rhossili Down with the highest point on the Gower Peninsula, ( the Beacon ), and a number of prehistoric remains.

The beach is reachable via a path which passes Rhossili village hall.

Llangennith was at one time the most infamous, rough-and-ready village on the peninsula, its villagers referred to in Gower dialect as ' Llangenny Oxen ', always the first to rush to any shipwreck, particularly those in Rhossili Bay, and feuding with neighbouring villagers over any plunder they could find.

The village is said to take its name from the " Bold Venture " that it must have appeared to build a farm in this moorland, but this is probably folk etymology, as " Bol -" is a common prefix in Cornish placenames.

Far is it from me to say that the visits he received were upon business, or had anything to do with the local government of the village ; but it certainly appeared so.

Skara Brae's inhabitants were apparently makers and users of grooved ware, a distinctive style of pottery that appeared in northern Scotland not long before the establishment of the village.

In 1937, while researching folklore in Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of a woman who appeared in a village, and a family claimed she was Felicia Felix-Mentor, a relative who had died and been buried in 1907 at the age of 29.

While Bayreuth was previously ( 1199 ) referred to as a villa ( village ), the term civitas (" town ") appeared for the first time in a document published in 1231.

When the Dutch arrived in 1624 at Tayouan ( Anping ) Harbor, Siraya-speaking representatives from nearby Saccam village soon appeared at the Dutch stockade to barter and trade ; an overture which was readily welcomed by the Dutch.

Polevoy's view appeared to gain wide support among the Russian geographer community ; petitioned by the Amur Branch of the Russian Geographical Society, the Russian Government renamed the village of Odzhal to Achan in 1977, to celebrate its connection with Khabarov's raid.

Most notably the village appeared ( as Freshfield, but otherwise very recognisable and featuring many familiar landmarks ) as the setting for his novel ' Vermilion Dawn '.

The name Dottignies – a village that is now part of Mouscron – appeared for the first time in the 9th century, while that of Mouscron itself appeared only in 1060.

The village of Maidstone was the centre of the Irish community, and an area known as the " Scotch Colony " appeared along the shore of Lake St. Clair.

In 1720 appeared another hagiography in Madrid, La Historia del Inocente Trinity el Santo Niño de la Guardia ( The History of the Trinitarian Innocent, the Holy Child of La Guardia ), the work of Diego Martinez Abad, and in 1785, the village priest of La Guardia, Martín Martínez Moreno, published his Historia del martirio del Santo Niño de la Guardia ( History of the Martyrdom of the Holy Child of La Guardia ).

16 Vayathinile won him his third consecutive best actor award, where he appeared as a village bumpkin, along with Rajinikanth and Sridevi.

Paignton was a small fishing village until the 19th century, when in 1837 the Paington ( sic ) Harbour Act led to the construction of a new harbour and the modern spelling, Paignton, first appeared.

In 1596, the village appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Acre, with a population of 139 Muslim households.

Two centuries later an image of the Virgin appeared to members of this village, prompting the building of the second church.

In 2005 the book Drapene i Barkvik (" The murders in Barkvik ") appeared, about the teenager Fillip Moberg attempting to solve an axe murder in a small Norwegian village.

The first man, named Tse < u > k </ u > ánchten, built his longhouse in the village, and later on another man named Xelálten, appeared on his longhouse roof and sent by the Creator, or in the Squamish language keke7nex siyam.

In this version of events, Joshua and the invading Israelites are depicted as conquering Ai, killing its residents and burning the city ; however, et-Tell was unoccupied at this time according to the established archaeological chronology, and the later Iron Age I village appeared with no evidence of initial conquest.

In Mamluk times, the village name appeared on documents referring to the waqf of the mosque in Hebron.

The municipality is home to the famed village of Chalma, where according to legend, an image of a Black Christ miraculously appeared in a cave that was devoted to the god Oxtoteotl.

When a single Israeli armored unit appeared outside the village, the militia retreated and left the village.

Many small businesses and housing developments have appeared, changing the cultural landscape of the small village.

* Southernmost point – unnamed location on the border with Cote d ' Ivoire immediately south of the village of Kpuere, Sud-Ouest Region

The location of this famous battle is now claimed by some to be the village of Great Wratting, in Suffolk, which lies in the Stour Valley on the Icknield Way West of Colchester, and by a village in Essex.

As many as 200 settlers lived in the nameless village in what is now present day Ingonish ( location according to some historians ) on the island's northeastern peninsula.

In 1893 archaeologists from the École française d ' Athènes finally located the actual site of ancient Delphi and the village was moved to a new location, west of the site of the temples.

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.

* Southern-most point – unnamed location on the border with Liberia immediately south of the village of Gonon, Nzérékoré Region

* Eastern-most point – unnamed location on the border with Guinea immediately south-west of the Guinean village of Sofan, Gabú Region

The village of Madina do Boé in the southeasternmost area of the territory, close to the border with neighbouring Guinea, was the location where PAIGC guerrillas declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau on September 24, 1973.

The second location is at Hukok, a village six miles southwest of Safed and twelve miles north of Mount Tabor.

In 1963, the institute moved to its present location, on the Grand Trunk Road near the village of Kalyanpur in Kanpur district.

* Northernmost point-unnamed location on the border with Golden Gate National Park in South Africa immediately north-west of the village of Monontsa, In Butha-Buthe District

* Eastern-most point-unnamed location on the border with Cameroon immediately east of the village of Munyego, Borno State.

Due to difficulties in accessing the capital, San Marino City ( which has a mountain-top location ), the terminus station was to be located at the village of Valdragone.

* Southern-most point – unnamed location on the border with Guinea immediately south of the village of Toile, Kédougou Region

Furthermore a 1960 episode of Danger Man, " View from the Villa ", had exteriors filmed in Portmeirion, a Welsh resort village that struck McGoohan as a good location for future projects.

Filming began on March 1, 1960, on location in Mexico, where both the village and the U. S. border town were built for the film.

Its farming activity and its location on the road from Paris to Dreux and Normandy brought prosperity to the village, culminating in the end of the 13th century, the so-called " century of Saint Louis ", famous for the prosperity of northern France and the building of Gothic cathedrals.

They differ from general stores and village shops in that they are not in a rural location and are used as a convenient supplement to larger stores.

The school primarily serves the Catholic Communities of Herefordshire and is situated in a very attractive rural location close to the River Lugg, a few miles to the east of the City of Hereford in the village of Lugwardine.

the Mantua district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; the village of Mantua in Baltimore County, Maryland ; the hamlet of Mantua ( sometimed spelled Manatua ) in Greene County, Alabama ; and a location in Monroe County, Iowa.

In 1963, the courthouse in Lake George village was closed and operations moved several miles south to its present day location at the Warren County Municipal Center main campus in Queensbury.

The cases appear verifiable, and the great majority identify ( 1 ) the individual practitioner, often with age, occupation, and residence ; ( 2 ) the time and location that the alleged abuse took place, down to the level of the district, township, village, and often the specific jail institution ; and ( 3 ) the names and ranks of the alleged perpetrators.

* Eastern-most point-unnamed location on the border with Mozambique immediately south-west of the Mozambican village of Buena-uzi, Southern Region