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Caption For Langdon Hills, Entrance And Keepers Cottage C1950

Whitebeam, Turkey oak, beech, poplar, sycamore and alder abound here.

Caption For Levens, Hall, The Gardens 1891

Here the beech and box are coaxed into strange and wonderful shapes, including chessmen, birds, beasts, a lion and a judge's wig.

Caption For Heckmondwike, Market Place And Westgate C1950

The last train to run from the town was in October 1963, which was even before the Beeching cuts.

Caption For Willaston, The Green C1950

The copper beech, whose leaves we can just see on the left, was planted in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V.

Caption For Cranham, The Woods 1907

This large area of deciduous woods, in which beech predominates, is a favourite with walkers.

Caption For Badbury Rings, 1899

Above a great double avenue of beech trees, which line the road from Wimborne, lies the huge hillfort of Badbury.

Caption For Baslow, Bridge C1870

Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease.

Caption For Rochdale, Healey Dell 1898

Oak, birch and beech trees predominate and there are over 400 species of flora and over 60 species of birds.

Caption For Netherbury, And Lewesdon 1902

Lewesdon Hill, topped by beech trees, was given to the National Trust in 1943.

Caption For Poole, High Street, Beech Hurst 1904

Beech Hurst was built in 1798 for ship's master Samuel Rolles, who was involved in Poole's trade with Newfoundland.

Caption For Holybourne, The London Road C1960

The house on the corner, known as The Beeches, was advertised for auction in 1920.

Caption For Goring, Village 1899

Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

Caption For Water End, The Village C1955

At Water End, the River Gade runs under the fine three-arched bridge and through water meadows shaded by beech, willow and oak trees.

Caption For Edgehill, Walk In Beech Woods 1922

These lovely beeches were planted in the 18th century, possibly by the architect Sanderson Miller.

Caption For Edgehill, The Obelisk 1922

These lovely beeches were planted in the 18th century, possibly by the architect Sanderson Miller.

Caption For Boston, Witham Bank And Boston Stump C1955

The bridge, built in 1848, carried the Great Northern Railway main line from Grimsby to London King's Cross (via Peterborough), but since the Beeching cuts it now only carries the Skegness to Nottingham

Caption For Clydach, The Wells 1893

Clydach Gorge, once populated by forges, is well-known for its stands of beech trees which somehow survived the ravages of the charcoal-burners of the time.

Caption For Wembdon, Church 1906

Much of this feeling remains today: the churchyard wall with its railings and gates is unchanged, although the copper beech behind the left gate pier has grown very large.

Caption For Washington, The Post Office C1960

Washington is on the main London to Worthing Road at the foot of the Downs.There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up

Caption For Farley Green, The Village C1955

The 1920s Elm Tree Cottage on the left is now partly hidden by a large beech tree, while the 19th-century cottages behind the pillar box (which is still there today) have an extra bay to the