Outside the city of Manchester, distinct town-based identities and residual loyalties to the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire remain.
The present city and metropolitan borough also embrace several formerly distinct towns.
Brooklyn had been a scattering of districts -- Midwood, Bushwick, New Lots, Flatlands -- all of them distinct towns a century before.
Izalco had been composed of two distinct towns, each controlled by its own Indian community.
Here the words "rural landscape" refer to rural and countryside, as distinct from town, as they have done in the English language for over 400 years (according to the Oxford English Dictionary).
Lake View Terrace, home to Hansen Dam, is a quiet equestrian community with two distinct faces: town and country.
Until the 18th century Nancy was composed of two distinct fortified towns.
Lents, which was originally a farming community that was annexed to Portland in 1912, was until the early seventies a blue-collar neighborhood of single-family homes, with its own commercial center and a distinct, small-town character.
In those days the place had a distinct mid-town Manhattan swish and flair to it, but now it has become shabby in a way that I find entirely congenial – no Trumpery at all, with an atmosphere rather like that of one of London's less salubrious gentlemen's clubs.
The Art of the Pizza Box," labeled our city a "slice town," distinct from places that put more emphasis on an entire pie.
When I visited in 2013, it was clear that Kashgar was already a segregated city the Han and Uighur populations lived and worked in distinct sections of town.
