Pasadena itself is a small, genteel western town, seven minutes away, by freeway, from downtown Los Angeles.

San Francisco cannot quite shake off its booming, crude, gold-rush spirit to become a genteel Eastern town.

THE genteel town of Princeton is up to its buttoned-down collar in controversy over redoing its storybook downtown.

The UK's most genteel town, renowned for its thermal waters, is still the ultimate place for a spa break.

Easily Accessible : Hove is considered a rather more genteel town than Brighton.

The Bixbys may have warmed to Abbeville, but the feeling was not reciprocated by the genteel town.

Bath is 14 miles away in one direction and the genteel town of Wells, with its beautiful cathedral, is eight miles away in the other.

This they had done when they descended on the genteel town of Winchelsea.

Before long, Cromwell becomes a quiet and genteel town.

Topped by castle ruins and packed with 16th- to 18th-century buildings and 37 churches, Tavira is the Algarve's most genteel town.