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Caption For Saxtead, The Mill C1955

There are two pairs of stones in the buck and two pairs and a centrifugal dressing machine in the round house.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square C1955

Between the lions is a statue of Major-General Charles Compton, third Baron Chesham, the commander of the Bucks Militia, who fought in South Africa during the Boer War.

Caption For Wadhurst, Castle 1903

This is not a real castle, of course, but rather a battlemented house of about 1818; it was greatly enlarged by Edward Buckton Lamb, that eccentric Victorian architect, and others by 1870.

Caption For Chipping Norton, The Rollright Stones, The King's Men C1960

Just north of Chipping Norton, in the parish of Great Rollright, lie the Rollright Stones, set in a circle about 100 feet in diameter.

Caption For Chipping Norton, The Rollright Stones, The King's Men C1960

Just north of Chipping Norton, in the parish of Great Rollright, lie the Rollright Stones, set in a circle about 100 feet in diameter.

Caption For Kingston Upon Thames, The Coronation Stone C1955

The Coronation Stone was placed upon a stone plinth set within decorative railings right in the heart of Kingston outside the Kingston municipal offices in 1850, but as traffic increased in the 20th

Caption For Shaw, Chamber Road C1950

The stone-fronted houses match the shops with their sturdiness and `built to last` qualities.

Caption For Wainfleet, Market Place C1955

Back in the Market Place, the clock tower is an architecturally undistinguished brick structure with a stone plaque telling us that its foundation stone was laid on 26 January 1899.

Caption For Muker, Village 1896

The village of Muker, set toward the western end of the dale, dates back to 1274.

Caption For Dodington, The Hall 1929

Partly bare stone and partly whitewashed, and with numerous stone-mullioned windows, its cross passage is behind the two-storey porch.

Caption For Muker, Village 1896

The village of Muker, set toward the western end of the dale, dates back to 1274.

Caption For Waddington, Church 1899

Stone from Waddington Fell was used to rebuild the church of St Helen in 1901.

Caption For Billesdon, Back Street C1955

At the southern end of Back Street, mud walls survive opposite the 17th-century Old School building, and the turn-of-the-century Stone House displays the builder's artful use of a cheaper brick shell adorned

Caption For Stonehenge, 1887

Stonehenge is the most well- known stone circle in the world.

Caption For Lincoln, Guildhall 1890

Through Stone Bow we look back across the setts to its rear, with the High Street stretching away into the distance through the archway.

Caption For Horsforth, Mechanics Institute 1901

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

Caption For Horsforth, Mechanics Institute 1901

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

Caption For Lower Swell, The Village C1955

The stone flaming urn of the war memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, holds centre stage at the crossroads in this attractive village built exclusively in the native Cotswold stone.

Caption For East Grinstead, College Lane 1907

Founded in 1609 by Robert Sackville, Earl of Dorset, as almshouses for twenty-one poor men and ten poor women, it was completed in 1619 in the local sandstone and is set back from the High Street.

Caption For Mansfield, Toothill Lane C1950

Going back under the railway viaduct, we ascend Toothill Lane to its junction with Leeming Street, which crosses the foreground.