The first industrial centers developed in Britain, Western Europe, and North America. Some, such as New Lanark, Scotland, and settlements in New England, were attracted by waterpower and were no more than villages. As industrial towns developed on the basis of steam power and adjacent to coal...
West Dorset, district, administrative county of Dorset, southern England. The city of Dorchester, in southern West Dorset, is the seat of both the county of Dorset and the district. The district lies almost entirely within the historic county of Dorset,
Central Bedfordshire, unitary authority in the southeastern Midlands ofEngland. It is bounded to the north by the unitary authority ofBedford, to the northeast byCambridgeshire, to the southeast byHertfordshireand the unitary authority ofLuton, to the southwest byBuckinghamshire, and to the northwest ...
30. Lewisburg, West Virginia Almay A lively local culinary scene, shows at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre (West Virginia’s state professional theater), and frequent music festivals are just a few reasons to plan a trip to Lewisburg, a town steeped in American history. Visit in the fall to ...
England is known the world over for looking like a Christmas card or something from The Hobbit. And it’s not a false image: you just have to look past the large towns and cities of the country to discover it. These are England’s small towns and village
Yarmouth town is located on the North-West of the Isle of Wight, and acts as one of the gateways to the Island with one of the main ferry services operating from its harbour. The historic port town sits at the mouth of the River Yar and contains some of the oldest architecture on the...
Northumberland is a traditional, ceremonial and administrative county in northernEngland. The ceremonial county bordersCumbriato the west,County Durhamto the south andTyne and Wearto the south east, as well as having a border with the Scottish Borders council area to the north, and nearly eighty ...
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Norfolk is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southernEngland. It has borders withLincolnshireto the west,Cambridgeshireto the west and southwest and withSuffolkto the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast, including The Wash. The county town isNorwic...