A converted Victorian church, tucked away in a middle-of-nowhere hamlet between Barnstaple and South Molton, its unashamedly ecclesiastical, right down to the owners' name: Sue and Derek Pope.
He once stormed off the stage in the middle of a "Hamlet" in Boston, throwing a wine pitcher and goblet at the back wall before returning a few minutes later (to applause) and apologizing to the audience.
St Tyfrydog's Church is in a wooded circular churchyard in the middle of the hamlet of Llandyfrydog in Anglesey, north Wales.
A website set up by locals opposed to the plan claims: "Building the caviar farm will require thousands and thousands of tonnes of earth to be moved to reshape the slope and dig the ponds – and all that in the middle of a tiny hamlet in one of the quietest parishes in the county".
She may have deemed my punctuality worthy of remark because she lives in the middle of nowhere, in a hamlet called Edensor on the Chatsworth estate in Derbyshire.
The bench of the corner store is his resting place for the middle of the journey past the hamlet's nine houses.
"When we used to cultivate poppy, I made enough money to have sheep, and we could eat meat whenever we wanted," said Mr. Khan, 53, standing in the middle of his cornfields in the hamlet of Loy Bagh on an autumn afternoon, stripping kernels from the dried cobs with his six children working beside him.
RISING on a high tide of economic good times for Long Island, the generously proportioned, traditionally middle-income hamlet of West Islip on Suffolk County's South Shore has experienced an upward surge in housing prices that surprises veteran real estate professionals.
Otherwise, we'd be marooned in the middle of nowhere, in or between hamlets without names, tiny blank circles on a map.
Half a dozen are being built in Quincy, a hamlet in the middle of America's Washington state, close to the Columbia River.
