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Caption For Troutbeck, Kirkstone Pass C1870

The pass is said to have taken its name from a large rock which looks like a gable end of a church.

Caption For Troutbeck, Kirkstone Pass C1870

The pass is said to have taken its name from a large rock which looks like a gable end of a church.This view looks south towards Troutbeck, with the shoulder of Broad End on the left.

Caption For Troutbeck, Kirkstone Pass C1870

The pass is said to have taken its name from a large rock which looks like a gable end of a church.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Bay C1955

The Square and Cobb Gate at the seaward end of Broad Street, eastwards from Bell Cliff, with the line-up of parked cars including Rileys, a Hornet soft-top, Jowett, Standard and Austins.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street 1922

This street, broad and uncluttered by traffic, is lined with Georgian and Victorian houses, and dominated by the splendid Victorian clock tower at the far end.

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 Castletown, Derby Haven And Fort Island 1897

The southern end of Derby Haven is protected by St Michael's Island with its ruined chapel, Derby fort and battery.

Caption For The Broads, Home At Evening C1900

What a blissful way to get home at the end of the day.

Caption For Oxford, Broad Street 1897

Broad Street is famous throughout Oxford for its assortment of bookshops.

Caption For Truro, Boscawen Street 1923

Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.

Caption For Marlborough, High Street 1907

The church at the far end of the broad street is St Peter & St Paul's.

Caption For Moreton In Marsh, High Street C1950

The broad High Street is part of the Fosse Way, and is dominated by the Redesdale Market Hall, a fine Victorian Tudor building designed by Sir Ernest George in 1887.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Gun Cliff And Cobb Gate From Back Beach 1890

This view looks south-westwards from Broad Ledge to Long Ledge (foreground) below Gun Cliff to the Guildhall (top right), the Fossil Depot beside Buddle Bridge and the Assembly Rooms (centre), with the

Caption For Headcorn, High Street C1955

Headcorn stands on the River Beult and is a large village with a single broad, straggling street.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Square C1955

The seaward end of Broad Street was once the hub of Lyme Regis with its old Custom House, until a devastating fire in 1844.

Caption For Reading, The Arcade 1896

Reading's covered market was built in a landlocked site entered via the Corn Exchange from Market Place and the great archway from Broad Street.

Caption For Fritton, From The Parlor 1890

Fritton Lake, like the Broads, originated as a series of peat pits in the medieval period.

Caption For Ormesby, High Street C1965

Compare this view with No O45043, and note the cottage on the right with the broad light-coloured band above the front door running across the house front.

Caption For Somerton, Broad Street 1904

Broad Street is a later medieval planned extension of the market place, which is beyond the end houses.

Caption For Broadstone, The Broadway C1960

Broadstone is named after Broadstone Farm, which in turn took its name from broad stones spanning a stream.