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Fortunately the scheme was abandoned.

In 1807 Sir Charles Monck abandoned the old castle for a new residence, Belsay Hall.

Four years after this picture was taken, the surrounding area was the scene of a major police search when the famed novelist Agatha Christie's car was found crashed and abandoned here.

The writer bought a Ford V8 Pilot here, and ran it for a number of years using second-hand parts extracted, with some difficulty and hazard, from the mounds of abandoned vehicles.

In 1943 the green was ploughed in a 'dig for victory' experiment to grow potatoes, flax and peas, but the soil proved too poor, and the scheme was abandoned.

Built largely from stone salvaged from the abandoned Roman fort at Binchester, St John's lay semi-derelict in the 1870s; it might well have been allowed to fall into complete ruin, had it not been for

There is no evidence for any 15th- or 16th-century rebuilding work, so the castle might well have been abandoned during the 14th century.

The railway lines may look rusty and abandoned, but the canal is still busy at this time.

One is that he was found abandoned in the parish church by some Yorkshire clothiers who were passing through the town on their way home.

In spite of their life-threatening illness, many patients were clearly unable or unwilling to abandon their devotion to tobacco.

This estate village, now owned by the Downshire family, was established around a wide green in the 17th century on land previously part of the Jervaulx and Coverham monasteries, abandoned in 1539.

Haddon Hall survives as one of the finest examples of a 16th and 17th century residence owing to the fact that when the Duke of Rutland abandoned it in favour of Belvoir Castle in 1700, it was not allowed

Here we see the old lifeboat house on Formby Beach, looking isolated and abandoned, as it was at this time.

One is that he was found abandoned in the parish church by some Yorkshire clothiers who were pass- ing through the town on their way home.

Over 700 years old, the church was rebuilt in 1871 and was still in use in the early 1970s, but it was later abandoned and fell prey to vandals.

The reason for it being apparently abandoned in the middle of the road was that the traffic lights had failed and Mr Thomas was investigating the reason at the control box.

Following the '45, Duart was garrisoned by government troops, but was abandoned by the end of the 18th century and allowed to fall into ruin.

In this north-western sector of a remarkable parish it is possible to go back two thousand years at a glance, from the ancient trackway to an abandoned railway line, courtesy of Dr Beeching.

This turf and stone rampart, with forts at two-mile intervals, served as the farthest frontier of the Roman Empire for barely half a century before it was abandoned and Roman Britain withdrew

Thereafter much of the stonework of the abandoned abbey was robbed for re-use elsewhere.

However, the service proved to be unprofitable and was abandoned, and all three ships were sold to the SE&CR.