Ambanpola
Ambanpola ( si, අඹන්පොල) is a town in Kurunegala District in Sri Lanka. Ambanpola is located between Mahawa, Sri Lanka, Maho and Galgamuwa, Sri Lanka, Galgamuwa towns. It is a major railway station on the Sri Lanka Railways#Northern Line, Northern Line. There are several public places like temples and schools are in this town. When traveling from Kurunegala to Anuradhapura via Padeniya this town can be found from 57 km away from Kurunegala town when travelling along "Anuradhapura through Alla" (route number is 57). Famous reservoirs of beautiful Abakolawewa, Athaeagalla and inginimitiya are located around Ambanpola. A well-known public Ayurvedic hospital is located on Danikithawa Road in Ambanpola. References

Populated places in North Western Province, Sri Lanka {{NorthWesternLK-geo-stub ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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