Market-town Sentence Examples

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  • Nevertheless thirty years later it is described by Leland as the westernmost market town in Cornwall "with no socur for Botes or shippes but a forsed Pere or Key."

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  • The ancient market town of Hartlepool lies on a peninsula which forms the termination of a southeastward sweep of the coast and embraces the bay.

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  • A market town since the 14th century, Korsor has ruins of an old fortified castle, on the south side of the channel, dating from the 14th and 17th centuries.

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  • Airdrie was a market town in 1695, but owes its prosperity to the great coal and iron beds in its vicinity.

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  • Forty years later Norden describes it as an incorporation and market town.

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  • According to Leland, Darlington was in his time the best market town in the bishopric with the exception of Durham.

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  • Ardmore is the market-town and distributing point for the surrounding agricultural region, which is the home of a large part of the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations.

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  • Hexham was at one time the market town of a large agricultural district.

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  • Blackburn was for some time the chief town of a district called Blackburnshire, and as early as the reign of Elizabeth ranked as a flourishing market town.

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  • This caused a village to spring up, and it afterwards increased so much as to become a market town.

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  • The development of the town is modern, as it was created a market town in 1828, incorporated in 1857, and created a parliamentary borough, returning one member, in 1867.

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  • He had just made choice of the admirable site of the old market-town of Bagdad when the tidings came of the rising of Mahommed in Medina.

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  • At the outbreak of the War of Independence Worcester was little more than a country market town.

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  • Velez „ Among the smaller towns which deserve mention are Ambalema on the upper Magdalena, celebrated for its tobacco and cigars; Buenaventura (q.v.); Chaparral (9000), a market town of Tolima in the valley of the Saldana, with coal, iron and petroleum in its vicinity; Honda (6000), an important commercial centre at the head of navigation on the lower Magdalena; Girardot, a railway centre on the upper Magdalena; and Quibd6, a small river town at the head of navigation on the Atrato.

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  • Chemnitz (Kaminizi) was originally a settlement of the Sorbian Wends and became a market town in 1143.

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  • Springfield remained little more than a large country market town until the completion of the Boston & Albany railway in 1839.

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  • This is an ancient and prosperous market town of picturesque old houses clustering round a fine parish church, with a high embattled tower, and a remarkable south porch with parvise.

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  • Almost everything connected with bee-craft has been revolutionized, and apiculture, instead of being classed with such homely rural occupations as that of the country housewife who carries a few eggs weekly to the market-town in her basket, is to-day regarded in many countries as a pursuit of considerable import ance.

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  • Lewes declares A market town in East Sussex has been declared an air quality management area due to street canyon problems.

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  • We journey south to Bakewell, a delightful Market town nestling in the Peak District.

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  • A cozy, detached character cottage nestling on a peaceful hillside overlooking the market town of Belper.

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  • Set in a rural location near the Georgian market town of Thirsk with it's popular racecourse.

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  • We are proud to be the first market town in England to hold a closed road rally in the town center.

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  • They used to run a smallholding on their small plot of land a mile from the nearest market town of Fenton.

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  • Bury St Edmunds is a Suffolk market town steeped in history.

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  • It is divided into two parts, the ancient market town lying about r m.

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  • Set in a rural location near the Georgian market town of Thirsk with it 's popular racecourse.

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  • The ancient stannary market town of Tavistock is 6 miles to the east.

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