Old Town

See also: oldtown and old town

English

Proper noun

Old Town

1. A city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
2. A village in Wadsworth parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9928).

the Old Town

1. An area in the centre of Stockholm, Sweden; Gamla stan in Swedish.
   • 1963 August, W. Shepherd, “Stockholm's modern underground railway”, in Modern Railways, page 97:

     The whole of the Tunnel system is controlled by the Underground Central Control Office, which is situated in Icarus House, a four-storey building in the Old Town.

Further reading

• Old Town in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)