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Stevenage

(Encyclopedia)Stevenage, city (1991 pop. 74,757) and district, Hertfordshire, E central England. Stevenage was the first new town to be designated under the New Towns Act of 1946, a program to decentralize populati...

Castleford

(Encyclopedia)Castleford kăsˈəlfərd [key], town, Wakefield metropolitan district, central England, at the ...

Intolerable Acts

(Encyclopedia)Intolerable Acts, name given by American patriots to five laws (including the Quebec Act) adopted by Parliament in 1774, which limited the political and geographical freedom of the colonists. Four of ...

Cleethorpes

(Encyclopedia)Cleethorpes klēˈthôrps [key], town, North East Lincolnshire, E central England, on the Humber ...

Ascot

(Encyclopedia)Ascot ăsˈkət [key], town, Windsor and Maidenhead, S central England. The famous horse races instituted by Queen Anne in 1711 are held annually in June on Ascot Heath. Ascot remains an important soc...

Randolph, Edward

(Encyclopedia)Randolph, Edward, c.1632–1703, English colonial agent in America. In 1676 he carried royal instructions to Massachusetts Bay that required the colony to send representatives to England to satisfy co...

Watertown

(Encyclopedia)Watertown. 1 Town (1990 pop. 20,456), Litchfield co., W Conn.; set off from Waterbury and inc. 1780. Textiles, plastics, chemicals, mattresses, and brass goods are among its manufactures. A method for...

Abercrombie, Sir Patrick

(Encyclopedia)Abercrombie, Sir Patrick, 1879–1957, British architect and town planner. Professor of civil design at the Univ. of Liverpool from 1915 to 1935 and of town planning at the Univ. of London after 1935,...

Aldridge-Brownhills

(Encyclopedia)Aldridge-Brownhills ôlˈdrĭj-brounˈhĭlz [key], town, Walsall metropolitan district, central England. It was created in 1966 through the merger of two former districts....

Guildford

(Encyclopedia)Guildford gĭlˈfərd [key], town and district, Surrey, SE England, on the Wey River. The county ...