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Caption For Bakewell, Lathkill Dale 1914

Of all the varied attractions of the Peak District, this one is up towards the top of the list.

Caption For Poole, High Street 1904

This is the view south down the High Street from outside Beech Hurst, which is off to the left.

Caption For Badbury Rings, The Avenue Of Trees 1936

The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.

Caption For Goring, The Village 1896

This sprawling riverside village lies between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

Caption For Pangbourne, Whitchurch Lock C1949

The lock is only accessible by water, for it is cut off from Whitchurch by a backwater and house gardens: even the Thames Path misses the river here, only going through the churchyard.

Caption For Compton Bishop, Crooks Peaks Guest House C1960

To the west of Compton Bishop, the former Crooks Peak Guest House is now a private house, almost invisible behind high beech hedges.

Caption For Stone, High Street 1900

The town grew up astride what was the most important road in medieval England, that between London and Chester, at that time the principal port for Ireland.

Caption For Ixworth, High Street C1965

The shop with the delicate early 19th-century windows (left) is J F Ferguson's London House Stores, now a restaurant.

Caption For Chanctonbury Ring, 1894

In Sussex is the small hillfort of Chanctonbury Ring.

Caption For Chanctonbury Ring, 1894

In Sussex is the small hillfort of Chanctonbury Ring.

Caption For Whitby, The Viaduct 1884

Although Beeching axed the trains on this line, he left this magnificent structure as it was.

Caption For Cranham, 1907

The spectacular beauty of the beech woods near the village of Cranham, particularly in autumn when the foliage changes colour, has long attracted visitors.

Caption For Holford, Beeches 1897

Native to this country, beeches were planted for shelter, ornament and, of course, their timber.

Caption For Ide Hill, C1965

This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking

Caption For Overstrand, The Cliff Café C1965

In the 1950s, Great British holidays enjoyed a revival.

Caption For Badbury Rings, The Avenue Of Trees 1936

The famous avenue of beech trees, planted in 1835, extends over two miles of undulating countryside to form an imposing approach to the northern entrance to Kingston Lacy Park.

Caption For Sutton, Christchurch Park 1903

View 49180 looks west from the junction with Langley Park Road along Christchurch Park, with the well-known copper beech trees newly planted in the verges.

Caption For Sandsend, The Village 1901

The railway station is in the centre, to the left of the bridge.

Caption For Langdon Hills, Entrance And Keepers Cottage C1950

The County Council had been buying parcels of land in this area since the 1930s, in an attempt to preserve the native trees.