Mayor Of Tiverton
The ancient borough of Tiverton in Devon, England, is governed by a Mayor and Councillors. The historic seat of government was Tiverton Guildhall, which was demolished to make way for the surviving Tiverton Town Hall, built in 1864 by Samuel Garth, Mayor of Tiverton 1861-2, to the design of Henry Lloyd, the architect of Exeter St Davids railway station. In the Mayoralty Room is a portrait of Sir John Heathcoat, MP for Tiverton (1832–1859). List of Mayors of Tiverton *1620: John Diamond (born 1541) of Tiverton *1655: Thomas Fowler Esq *post 1655: Henry Newte (1609 - 1670), twice Mayor, post 1655 when he last acted as Town Clerk. *1683: Henry Blagdon *1686-1687: Sir Hugh Acland, 5th Baronet, also MP for Tiverton *1693: John How *1703: George Davey (1690–1746), of Gotham House, Tiverton. *before 1766: John Webber Esq, whose residence was "during the summer of 1766 ..burnt to the ground; but whether by accident or intention is not stated" *1714: George Thorne Esq *1724: ...
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Town Hall, Fore Street, Tiverton - Geograph
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, more ...
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