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.

Opium smoking began as a privilege of the elite and remained a great luxury into the early nineteenth century, but by 1861, Wang Tao wrote that opium was used even by rich peasants, and even a small village without a rice store would have a shop where opium was sold.

The later stone fort, and the adjoining village, remained in use until about 285 AD, when it was largely abandoned for some reason.

It begins in the village of Crow's Bridge, where a small detachment of the Legion has remained behind to guard a bridge at the request of the locals.

Even though its population reached 30, 000, the Russians were reluctant to grant Dąbrowa town charter, so it remained a village until August 18, 1916, when Austrian authorities, which during World War One occupied southern part of Congress Poland, agreed to establish the town of Dąbrowa.

Two main topics were of interest: the exploration of the Czech village and the extent to which it remained an oasis of good morals ( Jan Herben, Karel Václav Rais, Alois Mrštík ); and Prague, especially the life of the lower classes ( Ignát Herrman, Karel Matěj Čapek Chod ).

Beaulieu village has remained largely unspoilt by progress, and is a favourite tourist stop for visitors to the New Forest, and also for birders seeking local specialities like Dartford Warbler, European Honey Buzzard and Hobby.

He rejected any kind of favours for his family ; his brother remained a postal clerk, his favourite nephew stayed on as village priest, and his three sisters lived together close to poverty in Rome.

It long remained a small village on the banks of the river, but by the 16th century was being used to harbour warships, because of its strategic location facing the Continent.

Upon their return, the inhabitants of a lodge would often move into another lodge, although they generally remained within the village.

Yet throughout these phases of his style " he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk.

During Spanish colonial times, Valparaíso remained a small village, with only a few houses and a church.

A Greek village remained after the population decline and was joined by a Turkish population after the 12th century CE.

The village pump remained in use until December 1914, while the handle was removed in 1921 by the local council for safe keeping but was never returned.

The manor and village remained abbey property until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Henry VIII's reign when the manor was sold to Lionel Ducket and Edward Whitchurch.

The area remained as a farming village with a low level of population until the second half of the 18th century.

Woolwich remained a small Kentish village until it started to become a leading military and industrial town.

Wagon trains of gold seekers passed through the village, but other travelers found the land rich and remained to establish farms.

Jackson remained little more than a small village until the arrival of the railroads in the latter half of the 19th century.

Elsah remained mainly a quiet village until the opening of the Great River Road ( Illinois Route 100 ) in 1964.

It remained primarily a farming community ; although the village was connected to the railroad in 1910, the line was closed ten years later.

The new town of Chauncey remained a small suburban village until Purdue University opened in 1869.

In 1689 during King William's War, they were driven out again, and the village remained a desolate waste for 40 years.

The grant was refused and the village remained part of Deerfield, but South Deerfield nevertheless dedicated its own meetinghouse in 1821.

The economy of the Republic of the Congo is a mixture of village agriculture and handicrafts, an industrial sector based largely on petroleum extraction, support services, and a government characterized by budget problems and overstaffing.

" Neighbourhood witches " are the product of neighbourhood tensions, and are found only in self-sufficient serf village communities where the inhabitants largely rely on each other.

Later in life, disillusioned with architecture, Mackintosh worked largely as a watercolourist, painting numerous landscapes and flower studies ( often in collaboration with Margaret, with whose style Mackintosh's own gradually converged ) in the Suffolk village of Walberswick ( to which the pair moved in 1914 ), where he was briefly arrested as amid accusations of being a German spy in 1915.

The village was largely within the parish of Streatham, although land to the north was part of Battersea.

At its centre is Highgate village, a collection of largely Georgian shops, pubs, restaurants and residential streets, interspersed with diverse landmarks such as St Michael's Church and steeple, Highgate School ( 1565 ), Jacksons Lane arts centre housed in a Grade II listed former church, the Gatehouse inn dating from 1670 and Berthold Lubetkin's 1930s Highpoint buildings.

The village expanded rapidly between 1923 and 1939 when a series of garden estates – encouraged by the Metropolitan Railway – grew around its historic core, and it was largely from this time onwards that the area ( including Hatch End, which forms the northeastern part of Pinner ) assumed much of its present-day suburban character.

Until the 19th century it was largely rural, with a small village centre ( now Walthamstow Village — see below ) and a number of large estates.

Although it has largely been supplanted by Christianity, the indigenous belief system remains in strong effect among the rural and village populations of the Igbo, where it has at times influenced the colonial religions.

Composed by Gary Carpenter to a libretto by Ian Barnett, the opera was commissioned by the village and performed largely by the villagers.

Nevertheless, the presence of a Seminole village largely discouraged whites from moving into the area.

The Christmas movie Prancer, released in 1989, was filmed on location largely in the village of Three Oaks ( other locations in nearby LaPorte, Indiana, were also used ).

The city largely follows the borders of the village although a small area of parkland on the north side of the city was annexed from Commerce Township in the 1970s.

La Luz itself is largely residential and agricultural in land use but a small market is located on the state maintained road that connects the village to Highway 70.

A natural riverfront and harbor are resources that the village has utilized for the past 100 years, to become a modern and largely self-contained community.

The area remained largely agrarian until 1865, when Eleazar Hart deeded land for the development of the New York and Harlem Railroad line into Manhattan, setting the stage for Hartsdale's change into a more cosmopolitan commuter village.

It's a sleepy little village on the North Carolina coast, largely " forgotten by men and nations.

Although the village's economy was once largely supported by the coal industry, most residents currently seek employment outside village limits in nearby towns and cities such as Moundsville and Wheeling, West Virginia.

The racial makeup of the village was still largely White, while one individual identified him / herself as Asian ( specifically of Chinese origin ) and 5 individuals indicated they were of Hispanic / Latino origin.

A rare " stone-ender " known as the John Mowry, Jr. or Sayles House on Wesquadomeset ( Sayles ) Hill near Iron Mine Hill and Sayles Hill Roads in North Smithfield, demolished in the 20th century The village of Slatersville was largely built by Samuel Slater and his brother John Slater beginning in 1803.

The original village of Gamesley consisted of rows of cottages inhabited by workers at the local textile mills, and it remained largely undeveloped until the 1960s, when it underwent considerable change.

Similarly, well dressing was revived at this time in Youlgreave, to celebrate the supplying of water to the village " from a hill at some distance, by means of pipes laid under the stream of an intervening valley ", largely due to the support of a " Miss Bowman ".

This has largely caused the current centre to evolve in the geographical heart of the village.