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Boomtown (also known as Boomtown Fair) is a five-day theatre and music festival held annually on the Matterley Estate in South Downs National Park, near Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was first held in 2009 and has been held at its current site since 2011.
A boomtown is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, ... Derbyshire, England (17th century lead mining community) United States
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
The village consists of High Kilburn, situated on a hillside, and Low Kilburn in the valley on the banks of a stream. It lies about 7 miles (11 km) east from Thirsk.The nearest settlements are Wass 2.6 miles (4.2 km) to the east; Coxwold 2 miles (3 km) to the south-east; Carlton Husthwaite 1.9 miles (3 km) to the south-west and Thirkleby 2.3 miles (3.7 km) to the west. [7]
Agloe, New York, was invented on a 1930s map as a copyright trap. In 1950, a general store was built there and named Agloe General Store, as that was the name seen on the map. Thus, the phantom settlement became a real one. [3] There are also misnamed settlements, such as the villages of Mawdesky and Dummy 1325 in Lancashire on Google Maps. [4]
Over the years, the direction of the road has taken many detours depending on such factors as changes in tolls or turnpike patronage. For example, in 1750 the toll road from London was altered to go through Melksham; [4] and in 1695 the map maker, John Ogilby, produced a map of the Hungerford area of the Great West Road showing two possible ...
The median age of the population was 35, compared with 36 within the Greater Manchester Urban Area and 37 across England and Wales. [58] The majority of the population of Bolton were born in England (87.10%); 2.05% were born elsewhere within the United Kingdom, 1.45% within the rest of the European Union, and 9.38% elsewhere in the world. [59]
Enfield is a large town in north London, England, 10.1 miles (16.3 km) north of Charing Cross.It had a population of 333,587 in 2021. It includes the areas of Botany Bay, Brimsdown, Bulls Cross, Bullsmoor, Bush Hill Park, Clay Hill, Crews Hill, Enfield Highway, Enfield Lock, Enfield Town, Enfield Wash, Forty Hill, Freezywater, Gordon Hill, Grange Park, Hadley Wood, Ponders End, and World's End.