Sentence examples for built around the town from inspiring English sources

He had a large sand berm built around the town to control entry and exit, and retook neighbourhoods house by house.

Ohio Wesleyan University (1842) was built around the town's Mansion House (now Elliot Hall).

"A barricade was built around the town to try and stop it spreading - the old mine works were dug out and back-filled with clay," said Ms Thrapp.

Southampton's town walls are a sequence of defensive structures built around the town in southern England.

Civic officials, already anxious that a highway bypass being built around the town will hurt business, have embraced the "Clinton Connection" as a marketing lifeline.

The Earl of Derby was absent when Wigan fell, despite fortifications built around the town, Wigan was captured by Parliamentarian forces on 1 April 1643, the takeover was complete in two hours and the town was pillaged before the defences were broken down and the Parliamentarians retreated.

The Weiner Residence at 297 West Fourth Street in Greenwich Village, originally a town house built around the turn of the 20th century, was renovated using parts from commercial trucks.

In January he ordered a 20-foot-high berm built around the desert town of Rutba, to limit access to the remote haven for smugglers and free troops for operations elsewhere.

The town, built around the Mayak nuclear plant, is classified as a "strategic site" and is closed to visitors.

"The successful examples," said Mr. Yaro of the Regional Plan Association, "are the ones that developed in a more organic way, that were built around the historic fabric of the town.

The town is built around the Hansaray — the sixteenth-century palace of the Crimean Khan dynasty, with its harem quarters and mosque and moated gardens.