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High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).
The notorious Judge Jeffries condemned her to be burned at the stake, but this sentence was commuted to beheading.
Exeter College was founded by one of Exeter's bishops in 1314, though most of the college buildings have been restored or rebuilt over the years.
The Constitutional Club (far left) burned down in February 1910.
This bustling view of Church Road with its bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles is dominated by the sadly- lamented old Town Hall, which burned down in 1966.
Perhaps Richmond's most handsome and unchanged cobbled street, Newbiggin means 'new settlement'; its level width suggests that it was planned as the town's original market place.
This superb minster church was founded before 956; the present church was started in 1108 by the Archbishop of York, and the west towers were completed by about 1150.
Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.
During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burning hayricks and destroying machinery.
If coal was burned in these houses, it had to be imported from the mainland.
Tennyson knew and loved Haslemere and the Surrey Hills.
Firstly, the Shaa family, who owned land here, produced two Mayors of London.
The lighthouse was designed by Samuel Watts and built by John Matson at a cost of £8000.
Specimens of 'Little Trees', a species of deep water coral so named because of its shape, are sometimes washed up on the beach at Crackington.
At the junction of Common Road and Slough Road, two College schoolboys, one carrying a cricket bat over his right shoulder, are seen walking past the 'Burning Bush'.
Further down the Thames are the Houses of Parliament - or rather, the Palace of Westminster.
The river Burn runs through the villages of South and North Creake too.
Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.
The lovely timber porch was left relatively untouched, however; and a grave-slab from an earlier church has recently been discovered beneath the pews.
The village of Braemar is situated on the banks of Cluny Burn.
