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Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

Bude's canal, built in 1823, was something of an oddity.

Bude's canal, built in 1823, was something of an oddity.

Situated in Appleton, to the north of central Widnes, St Bede's is a reminder of the then recent change in the status of Britain's Roman Catholics.

Wirksworth was the 'Snowfield' of George Eliot's novel Adam Bede.

Bede House dates from the 17th century, Monkton Farmhouse from the 18th century, and Grange Farmhouse from the late 17th to early 18th centuries.

Beyond are the late Victorian buildings of St Bede's Preparatory School.

Wirksworth was the 'Snowfield' of George Eliot's novel Adam Bede.

At the crossroads stands The Dicker, a somewhat eclectic and odd mansion of 1908, now St Bede's School.

It is most famous for the superb church and the 15th-century Archbishop Chichele Bede House and School.

It overlooks Kingsway, a dual carriageway originally called St Bede's Road.

St Bede's Church, built in 1847, is situated in an area once known as Appleton.

In the foreground are the buildings of St Bede's School, while to the left the long building is All Saints Hospital, founded in 1867 by an Anglican nun, and built in Victorian Gothic style.

'Nothing can exceed it', he wrote, 'except that which Hannibal exhibited to his disconsolate troops when he bade them behpld the glories of the Italian plains!'

This bridge, by William Tierney Clark, and opened in 1832, so impressed a visiting Hungarian nobleman that Clark was commissioned to built a larger one over the Danube to link Buda and Pest.

In an area of architectural gems (Rockingham Castle, Lyddington Bede House and Stoke Dry parish church), the village has a number of good ironstone houses of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

Downs.The Dicker, behind the brick wall and trees beyond the pub, is a rather odd-looking mansion, built by Horatio William Bottomley, a politician and journalist.The building is now occupied by St Bede's

All is now part of St Bede's School, with the cottages converted to dormitories and dormers added in the roof.