Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison' has mentioned 'Town' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Formerly The Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael. | WIKI |
| Bridgetown is sometimes locally referred to as "The City", but the most common reference is simply "Town". | WIKI |
| The present-day location of the city was established by English settlers in 1628; a previous settlement under the authority of Sir William Courten was at St. James Town. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 1.1 Early settlement 1.2 From town to city 2 Geography and climate 2.1 Geography 2.2 Boundaries 2.3 Careenage 2.4 Climate 3 The city 3.1 Neighbourhoods 3.2 Landmarks/points of interest 3.3 Harbour 4 Society and culture 4.1 Utilities and local services 5 Economy 5.1 Stock exchange 5.2 Business/specifics 6 Transportation 6.1 Public buses 6.2 Route taxis 7 Diplomatic missions in Barbados 7.1 Twin and Sister cities 8 Notable people 9 See also 10 References 11 External links | WIKI |
| Eventually after 1654 when a new bridge was constructed over the Careenage by the British, the area became known as The Town of Saint Michael and later as Bridgetown, after Sir Tobias Bridge. | WIKI |
| An investigation by a commission in 1640 found that much of Hawley's land transactions were legitimate and properly showed[clarification needed] these lands (including the town site) as being attributed to the Earl of Carlisle. | WIKI |
| From town to city[edit] | WIKI |
| In 1842, Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, Saint Vincent, and Saint Lucia were split into separate dioceses by Royal Letters Patent which also decreed that the Town of Bridgetown should be called the City of Bridgetown. | WIKI |
| In December 1925, a committee sought to petition the King for a Royal Charter of Incorporation to provide local government in the city, proposed to consist of a mayor, 8 aldermen, 12 common councillors, a town clerk, a head-borough or chief constable, and such other officers as would be deemed necessary. | WIKI |
| The town's other limits consisted of properties of certain citizens' names in this statute, the location of which cannot now be determined with certainty. | WIKI |
| By the 17th century, the fortified port town was able to establish its importance in the British Atlantic trade and became an entrepxc3xb4t for goods, especially sugar, and enslaved persons destined for Barbados and the rest of the Americas. | UNESCO |
| Historic Bridgetownxe2x80x99s fortified port spaces were linked along the Bay Street corridor from the historic townxe2x80x99s centre to St. Annxe2x80x99s Garrison. | UNESCO |
| The historic town has retained its original footprint, based on its English medieval serpentine street layout, for almost 400 years, which bears exceptional testimony to British town layouts in foreign soil. | UNESCO |
| St. Annxe2x80x99s Garrison and its fortifications, which protected the town and its port, constitute the most complete complex of a 18th-19th century British garrison ensemble in the Atlantic World. | UNESCO |
| The property covers the area that reflects the layout of the early town and port in Bridgetown and the overall Garrison, with all its historic components. | UNESCO |
| Both layouts continue in spite of the townxe2x80x99s transformation from a maritime-mercantile fortified port town to a contemporary cosmopolitan tropical city which has remained the islandxe2x80x99s capital and national centre. | UNESCO |
| Legal protection is provided by the Town and Country Planning Act, supported by the Physical Development Plan Amended (2003). | UNESCO |
| The Chief Town Planner has been identified as the Site Manager for day-to-day management concerns in the framework of the urban development plan and planning permission procedures. | UNESCO |