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West Coker
West Coker is a village and ancient parish in Somerset, England, 3 miles west of Yeovil, one of the Coker villages. Known for its Domesday manor held by King William in 1086, a Roman villa, St Martin of Tours church, and an 1839 Wesleyan chapel.
West Dean
West Dean is the name of two villages in southern England: one in West Sussex, home to the West Dean Estate and College, and one on the Hampshire–Wiltshire border.
West Langton
West Langton, Leicestershire, near Market Harborough: village with a Romano-British villa north of Langton Brook and a mixed-rite 5th-6th century Anglo-Saxon cemetery, excavated by Time Team in 2010. Distinct from West Langdon, Kent.
West Meon
West Meon is a civil parish in Hampshire, England, situated in the South Downs National Park on the River Meon. It was named for 6th-century Jutish settlers.
Wharram Percy
Wharram Percy is a deserted medieval village in the Yorkshire Wolds, North Yorkshire, occupied about 600 years before abandonment soon after 1500, excavated over 40 seasons from 1950 to 1990 and Europe's best-known deserted medieval village.
Wharram-le-Street
Wharram-le-Street: shrunken village on the Yorkshire Wolds, North Yorkshire, on a presumed Roman road; known for a 3rd-4th century Roman villa at the Gypsey Race source and a pre-Conquest church with Norman details.
Whiskeytown, California
Whiskeytown, California: Gold Rush mining town founded 1849 near Redding, renamed from Whiskey Creek after a mule's spilled whiskey barrel; flooded in 1963 under Whiskeytown Lake, now within Whiskeytown National Recreation Area.
White River Junction, Vermont
White River Junction is a village in the town of Hartford, Vermont, at the confluence of the White and Connecticut Rivers, once a major railroad junction and now an arts hub.
Whittington
Whittington is an English place name shared by several villages: Whittington, Shropshire, with Whittington Castle and a Roman marching camp; Whittington Court Roman villa, Gloucestershire; and Great Whittington, Northumberland, near Hadrian's Wall.
Whittlebury
Whittlebury is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, near Towcester on the edge of Whittlewood Forest, with 618 residents in 2020, an Iron Age hillfort origin, a royal council held by Athelstan c.930, and the Grade II St Mary's Church.
Widecombe in the Moor
Widecombe in the Moor, also known as Widecombe, Devon, is a village and parish in central Dartmoor National Park, England, known for its annual September fair.
Winnetka, Illinois
Winnetka is an incorporated 1869 village in Cook County, Illinois, on Lake Michigan's North Shore, platted 1854 by Peck and Gurnee, population 12,744 (2020), median household income $250,000+, served by Winnetka District 36 and New Trier High School.
Winter villages of the Northern Paiute
Winter villages of the Northern Paiute were cold-season Great Basin camps, from Owens Valley in California to southeastern Oregon, where several families lived in mat-covered dome houses until spring.
Winton, Queensland
Winton, Queensland: outback town and shire seat in Central West Queensland on the Landsborough Highway, birthplace of Waltzing Matilda and Qantas, home to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum and Lark Quarry dinosaur stampede site.
Withington
Withington is a Cotswolds village and parish in Gloucestershire on the River Coln, about 14 km south-east of Cheltenham, population 532 (2011), known for its 1811-excavated Roman villa and Orpheus mosaic.
Wittenoom, Western Australia
Wittenoom, Western Australia: former Pilbara asbestos mining town, Australia's only blue asbestos source 1950-1966; mine closed 1966, town degazetted 2007, permanently closed by 2022 legislation as a contaminated site.
Woomera, South Australia
Woomera, South Australia: remote township built from 1947 beside the Woomera Rocket Range, once the world's second-busiest launch site after Cape Canaveral, home of WRESAT-1 and the ELDO Europa flights.
Worsley
Worsley, a village in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, was the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal (opened 1761) and entrance to the 46-mile Worsley Navigable Levels underground coal canals built for the Duke of Bridgewater.
Wroxeter
Wroxeter, Roman Viroconium Cornoviorum, was the fourth-largest city of Roman Britain and the Cornovii tribal capital in Shropshire, founded as a legionary fortress in the mid 1st century AD and now among Britain's best-preserved Roman sites.
Wymysłowo
Wymysłowo, village in Krobia commune, Gostyń county, Greater Poland; site of a 355-grave Przeworsk culture cemetery (Jasnosz 1952) with unique inhumation grave 70, plus a grodzisko and 19th-century evangelical cemetery.
Wyompont
Wyompont is a hamlet of Erneuville, Tenneville, in Luxembourg province, Belgium, on the left bank of the western Ourthe. It is known for a Gallo-Roman building (villa or vicus) and an engineered schist-slab ford on the Arlon-Tongres Roman road, excavated from 1851 to 2001.
Wyszembork
Wyszembork is a village on the shore of Lake Salęt in Gmina Mrągowo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland, known for archaeological sites including a fully excavated Bogaczewo culture cremation cemetery.
Yamit (ימית)
Yamit (ימית) was Israel's largest settlement town in northern Sinai near El-Arish, founded in 1974 and forcibly evacuated and demolished in April 1982 under the Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
Yanov Khutor
Yanov Khutor (Янов хутор), Estonian ethnocultural complex in Berezovka, Pervomaysky District, Tomsk Oblast, built 2016; hosts the annual Jaan's Day festival drawing over 4,000 visitors.
Yellow Springs, Ohio
Yellow Springs, Ohio: village in Greene County (2020 pop. 3,697), named for an iron-rich spring in Glen Helen, home of Antioch College (1852), WYSO radio, and Dave Chappelle's adopted hometown.
Yibna (يبنى)
Yibna (يبنى), ancient Yavneh or Jamnia, was a Palestinian Arab village on a large tel 25 km south of Tel Aviv, depopulated in 1948; site of a famous Iron Age cult favissa and the port Yavneh-Yam.
Yoncalı
Yoncalı (Yoncalı-Inschrift): Turkish place name, chiefly the Muş-Bulanık village northwest of Lake Van bearing Tiglath-pileser I's rock inscription (RIMA 2 A.0.87.16, ca. 1114-1076 BCE) on Nairi, Tumme, Daiaeni, and Ḫabḫu; distinct from villages in Hakkari, Çankırı, Kütahya, and Uşak.
Ytterby
Ytterby (Ytterby gruva) is a village on Resarö, Vaxholm, Stockholm archipelago, whose quarry yielded yttrium, ytterbium, terbium, and erbium; distinct from Ytterby suburbs in Kungälv and a village in Åland.
Yuen Long Kau Hui (元朗旧墟)
Yuen Long Kau Hui (元朗舊墟), the 'old market' of Yuen Long, Hong Kong: a Qing-era periodic market founded in 1669 by Tang Man-wai of the Kam Tin Tang clan, run by Kwong Yu Tong, replaced by the 1915 New Market, with Grade 1 temples surviving.
Zadowice
Zadowice, a village in Godziesze Wielkie gmina, Kalisz County, Greater Poland, site of the largest fully explored Przeworsk culture cremation cemetery in Great and Central Poland, with about 900 burials from Hallstatt D to the early 5th century AD and Roman imports including Egyptian scarabs.