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In the Domesday Book its name is recorded as Mortona, and it was later known as Mor Tun; locals still refer to it as Moreton.
So reads a local guide book of 1924 - and the words are as apt now as they were then.
In Station Road you can book a motorboat or cruiser, and if you are a land-lubber or onlooker you could enjoy a meal in one of the many restaurants.
The Domesday Book refers to the settlement as Rinwede.
All looks peaceful and quiet in this photograph.
When Lewis Carroll was visiting his father, who was Canon of Ripon from 1852 to 1868, these wonderful carvings inspired his book 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.
Lord Brotherton donated his collection of rare books and gave £100,000 in cash.
When this picture was taken, the Steps had longs enjoyed a reputation as the place to go for antiques or to seek out old books.
Margaret Dobson's book 'Bradford Voices' has a picture of the pre-stressed concrete sections being lowered into place in October 1962.
Looking eastwards along the river Bure, this photograph shows a wide range of sailing and motor boats.
Mary Ann is better known to us as the writer George Eliot; in many of her books she wrote about the rural and industrialised Midlands.
A guide book for 1886 states that the village had no special feature of interest to the tourist, though its situation was pleasant and that the church with its stumpy spire was charmingly placed amid a
Milk churns are - of course - consigned to the history books.
Victorian guide book writers were not impressed by the bathing at Ryde.
Barnston appears in the Domesday Book as 'Bernestone', then held by William Fitz-Nigel, second Baron of Halton.
This area of Norfolk is sheep country, and Stokesby is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 180 sheep in the manorial flock.
Owned for centuries by the Aspinall family, Pendleton was an old village when the Domesday Book was compiled.
By the 1880s the shoeblack societies had four hundred boys on their books.
When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and at
Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the present building dates from the fifteenth century.
