Village
The original settlement grew up around Nunthorpe Hall, which was first built in the 1620s, although the present building is mostly Victorian. The settlement that is known as Nunthorpe today is that which grew up around the railway station. Nunthorpe village is situated about a mile to the south of the main suburban area.
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Famous quotes containing the word village:
“Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Tom was a glittering hero once more—the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even went into immortal print, for the village paper magnified him. There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least several gentlemen or “squires,” there is but one to a seigniory.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)