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Sapcote
Sapcote (Scepecote, 'sheep shelters') is a Leicestershire village, Domesday-recorded in 1086, with a 1st-century AD Roman villa and bath house at Calver Hill, a scheduled Basset castle site, and 12th-century All Saints Church.
Sarazm (Саразм)
Sarazm (Саразм), 'where the land begins', is a 4th–3rd millennium BCE proto-urban archaeological site in Tajikistan's Zeravshan valley, a 2010 UNESCO World Heritage Site known for early metallurgy and long-distance trade.
Sary-Bulak
Sary-Bulak (Сары-Булак) names several Kyrgyz villages and a rural district in Kochkor District, Naryn Region (2,648 people, 2,600 m), plus places in Osh, Jalal-Abad, Issyk-Kul, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan.
Satellite village
A satellite village is a village on the outskirts of a larger town, functioning as a subordinate part of the town's economy while its residents live there.
Sauðárkrókur
Sauðárkrókur (Krókurinn), town on Skagafjörður in northwest Iceland, largest settlement of Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður; trading post 1858, settled 1871, town rights 1947, about 2,600 residents.
Sauvenière
Sauvenière, a village in Gembloux, Province of Namur, Belgium, in the Hesbaye on the Bavay-Cologne Roman road; recorded in 946, Roman villas at Arlansart and Baudecet, commune merged into Gembloux in 1965.
Sawtry
Sawtry (Saltreim, Saltrede) is a Cambridgeshire village, historically in Huntingdonshire, on Ermine Street. Domesday 1086 three manors; Cistercian Sawtry Abbey founded 1147, dissolved 1536; four scheduled monuments.
Sayulita
Sayulita: Pacific surf town in Bahía de Banderas municipality, Nayarit, Mexico, 45 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta; Pueblo Mágico since 2015, known for beginner surf, water-quality monitoring, and tourism-driven gentrification.
Scalloway
Scalloway, Shetland's historic capital and second largest town (population about 800), a west-coast harbour town with Scalloway Castle, the WWII Shetland Bus base, and the UHI Shetland marine campus at Port Arthur.
Scarsdale, New York
Scarsdale, New York: an affluent coterminous town-village in Westchester County, incorporated 1915, known for top-ranked public schools, single-family Tudor-style housing, and a 29-minute Metro-North commute to Manhattan.
Seaside, Florida
Seaside, Florida: unincorporated 80-acre master-planned Gulf Coast resort town on Highway 30A, Walton County; founded 1981 by Robert and Daryl Davis, master-planned by Duany and Plater-Zyberk as the founding New Urbanist town and Truman Show filming site.
Selayang Baru Utara
Selayang Baru Utara is a populated place in Gombak District, Selangor, Malaysia (GeoNames 7795834), recorded at 3.2549 N, 101.6668 E with a population of 542,409, elevation 76 m, postal code 68100, near Bandar Baru Selayang.
Selo and derevnya
Selo and derevnya are two historical types of rural locality in Russia: a selo had a church and anchored the parish, while a churchless derevnya belonged to a nearby selo's parish.
Seongeup Folk Village
Seongeup Folk Village (성읍민속마을) is an inhabited designated folk village in Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo, Jeju, National Folklore Material No. 188 (1984), former center of Jeongui Hyeon, distinct from the recreated Jeju Folk Village.
Serowe
Serowe is a large village in Botswana's Central District and the traditional capital of the Bamangwato people, established in 1902 and the birthplace of Botswana's first president, Seretse Khama.
Sewell Mining Town
Sewell Mining Town (Campamento Sewell, Ciudad de las Escaleras) is an abandoned Chilean copper company town on Cerro Negro in the Andes, built from 1905 by Braden Copper for El Teniente, peaking at 15,000 residents and inscribed by UNESCO in 2006.
Sfakia (Σφακιά)
Sfakia (Σφακιά, Sphakia) is a mountainous municipality in southwestern Crete, Chania regional unit, capital Chora Sfakion, with the White Mountains, about 15 gorges including Samaria, 1,889 inhabitants (2011), and a history of revolt led by Daskalogiannis.
Shaharah
Shaharah (شهارة) is a fortified mountain village in 'Amran Governorate, northwestern Yemen, standing at about 2,600 meters on Jabal Shaharah and known for its 17th-century stone bridge.
Shani Shingnapur (शनी शिंगणापूर)
Shani Shingnapur (शनी शिंगणापूर), a village in Nevasa taluka, Ahilyanagar district, Maharashtra, is famous for its open-air swayambhu black-stone temple of Shani (Saturn) and its doorless, lockless houses, banks included, attributed to the deity's protection.
Shanksville, Pennsylvania
Shanksville is a small borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near which United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on September 11, 2001; the 2,277-acre Flight 93 National Memorial preserves the crash site two miles north of town.
Shared village and hamlet names in the British Isles
Shared village and hamlet names in the British Isles are place names borne by several distinct settlements at once, such as Newtown, Newton, and Glebe.
Shepperton
Shepperton is a town on the north bank of the River Thames in Spelthorne, Surrey, England, home to Shepperton Studios, one of the world's largest film studios.
Shiman
Shiman (شمام), also romanized Shemam or Shomam, is a populated place in Rudbar County, Gilan Province, Iran, at 36.9245 N, 49.4689 E; distinct from Shiman Bala and the fictional Shiman-Sekh.
Shipai Village (石牌村)
Shipai Village (石牌村) is Guangzhou's biggest and oldest urban village, founded in 1273 in Tianhe District; restructured in 1997 as Sanjun Enterprise Group, it houses tens of thousands of migrants in dense self-built rental housing.
Shirakawa, Gifu (village)
Shirakawa (白川村) is a mountain village in Ono District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan; its Ogimachi settlement is the Shirakawa-go component of the 1995 UNESCO World Heritage gassho-zukuri villages, with about 59 thatched farmhouses and community-run preservation.
Shitterton
Shitterton is a hamlet in Bere Regis parish, Dorset, England, recorded in Domesday as Scatera or Scetra. Known for its sewer-derived name, its 2010 theft-proof 1.5-tonne Purbeck stone sign, and its 2012 vote as Britain's most unfortunate place name.
Shohimardon
Shohimardon (Shakhimardan) is an Uzbek mountain-resort exclave in Kyrgyzstan's Batken region, 90 km2, 5,000-10,000 people, 55 km south of Fergana, home of the Kulikubbon lake and Hazrati Ali shrine.
Shoreham, Kent
Shoreham, Kent: a Darent valley village in Sevenoaks district, population 2,041 (2011), Grade I St Peter and St Paul church, 1972 conservation areas merged 2019, aircraft museum, Mount Vineyard.
Shoshong
Shoshong is a village in Botswana, founded in 1850 by Chief Sekgoma as the Bangwato capital, a major trade hub until Khama moved to Palapye around 1889.
Siemiechów
Siemiechów names two Polish places: a Lesser Poland village in Gromnik commune with WWI cemeteries nos. 181, 182, 183 (District VI Tarnów), and a Łask district village with a major Przeworsk culture cemetery and settlement.