Sentences with phrase «settled along this stretch»

They're a prominent family, part of a Muslim community that settled along this stretch of the coast centuries ago when the region was the main port of entry for foreign traders.

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But arts - led developments are deep - rooted along this stretch of coast: in Margate, where the kernel for the Turner Contemporary gallery can be traced right back to 1994; in Folkestone, where the Creative Foundation, led by entrepreneur Roger De Haan, was taking hold at the turn of the millennium; and across many smaller coastal towns and villages, from Broadstairs to Dungeness, where artists have settled because of the quality of the light, following the late Derek Jarman, who moved there in the mid-1980s.

Swept along by winds and settled by heavy rains, radioactive particles, especially caesium - 137 (137Cs), polluted large stretches of the European continent.