Ystad is a “locality”, or town, and the seat of Ystad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden, with 18,350 inhabitants in 2010. Settlement dates back to the 11th century and the town has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre and tourist attraction. It is associated with the fictional detective Kurt Wallander whose stories, by Henning Mankell, […]
Aultiphurst (Scottish Gaelic: Allt a’ Phuirt), in Strathy, Sutherland, is a village in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. Aultiphurst was settled as a clearance village mostly from the Naver Highland clearances. During the 19th century more than 30 people worked several crofts belonging to the Mackays. The name Aultiphurst is a misspelling of Allt a’ […]
Tilbury is a town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England. As a settlement it is of relatively recent existence, although it has important historical connections, being the location of a 16th century fort and an ancient cross-river ferry. It is also the location of a modern deep-water port. The name of the present town […]
Kidlington is a large village and civil parish between the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal, 5 miles (8 km) north of Oxford and 7.5 miles (12 km) southwest of Bicester. Kidlington’s toponym is derived from the Old English Cudelinga tun: the tun (settlement) of the “Kidlings” (sons) of Cydel-hence. The Domesday Book in 1086 […]
Margate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in East Kent, England. It lies 38.1 miles (61.3 km) east-northeast of Maidstone, on the coast along the North Foreland, and contains the areas of Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay and Westbrook. Margate was recorded as “Meregate” in 1264 and as “Margate” in 1299, but the […]
Caernarfon is a Royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales. It lies along the A487 road, on the east banks of the Menai Straits, opposite the Isle of Anglesey. The city of Bangor is 8.6 miles to the northeast, while Snowdonia fringes Caernarfon to the east and southeast. Caernarvon and Carnarvon are archaic anglicised […]
Burnley is a market town in Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It is 21 miles (34 km) north of Manchester and 25 miles (40 km) east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun. The town began to develop in the early medieval period as a number of […]
Detail InformationEdit Shōgen-ji is a temple of the Myoshin-ji branch of Japanese Rinzai School of Zen Buddhism in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. According to the oral tradition, Shōgen-ji was initially built as a Tendai temple during Saicho’s visit to Eastern Japan in 817. At that time, the temple’s name was most likely spelled differently, i.e. as. […]
Kowloon is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It is bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutter’s Island in the west, Tate’s Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south. It had a population […]
El Estor is a municipality in the Izabal department of Guatemala. Before roads and railroads, Lake Izabal was the link between Alta Verapaz and the rest of the World. What is now known as “El Estor” was the landing and trading post for cargo and travelers to frontier towns such as Cobán. Commonly referred to […]