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These limestone crags, at the western end of Stoney Middleton, are the haunt of modern rock climbers, and the 200 routes up them have gained evocative names such as Aurora, Alcasan and Armageddon

Mells Manor, largely Elizabethan, was built on the site of a medieval monastic manor.

Famous as the birthplace of John Macadam in 1756 and of Robert Burns in 1759, Ayr was founded under a charter granted by William the Lion.

We are looking back across the Wye to the village.

The church on the left is St John's, the tower of which is topped off with a small spirelet and dates from the 13th and 14th centuries.

Following the burning of Rye in 1377 and of Winchelsea in 1380, Bodiam Castle was built in 1385 because of the imminent threat of invasion by the French.

In the 1790s the Kennet and Avon Canal swept past at first floor window level of the 17th-century George Inn to cut it off from the High Street.

In 1879 Stratford acquired a striped, turreted, gabled fantasy known as the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

Many villagers left their homes here between 1830 and 1850 when the parish gave them money to go to Australia.

This thatched cottage with its distinctive pargetting (moulded plaster decoration) was home to one of East Dereham's more infamous sons, Bishop Bonner, the Rector of nearby St Nicholas's Church in the

It is probable, given the number of stone circles found on Dartmoor, that a family or a group of families erected them for ritual worship, either to venerate the dead or for an astronomical purpose.

The church on the left is St John's and dates from the 13th and 14th centuries.

Demolition took its toll on the left side of this picture.

Blinkhorn & Son is clearly to be seen on the left, and beyond that is Currys electrical store, which also sold cycles.

Here we see motorists in the village—they are probably touring the area.

Walmgate has been burned and bombarded with cannon fire, and there was an attempt to undermine it using gunpowder during the siege of York in 1644.

The church on the left is St John's, the tower of which is topped off with a small spirelet and dates from the 13th and 14th centuries.

In the 12th century Alresford was a prosperous community - so much so that it was later considered one of England's most important wool markets.

These six ancient graves hewn from solid rock close to the chapel of St Patrick lie on the impressive Heysham headland.