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Caption For Limpley Stoke, The Village C1955

This Wiltshire village grew up on three roughly parallel terraces on the steep and well-wooded Avon valley side, with the parish church at the south end.

Caption For Welton, High Street C1955

Its name comes from the springs and wells in the area.

Caption For Exford, White Horse Hotel 1940

Luckily, the horses were freed as the stables collapsed, and next morning all twenty-two were found alive and well.

Caption For Southwold, The Common 1896

Here the photographer has positioned a number of smartly dressed and well-behaved children as artistically as he could; let us hope that their parents are looking on from behind the camera.

Caption For Andover, Round House 1898

Trusts usually ran at a loss, but the Andover Turnpike Trust from Basingstoke to Lopcombe Corner was uniquely profitable thanks to Hampshire's stable and well-drained chalk.

Caption For Debenham, Market Square C1955

The Victorian brick building (centre) was Carter's cycles and Wells's electrical shop.

Caption For Thurstaston, The Cottage Loaf C1955

The building still stands on the eastern side of the A540, close to Thurstaston, but it is now a very attractive and well cared-for inn, with manicured lawns, picnic benches and a mass of brightly coloured

Caption For Rusper, The Village 1909

Set in remote and well-wooded rolling countryside west of and utterly remote from Crawley, Rusper has a gently curving main street with many good houses and cottages.

Caption For Witton Gilbert, The War Memorial From The Woods C1955

This photograph shows Witton Gilbert's war memorial in its original position on part of the dene on a popular and well used walk down to a bathing hole where people used to swim, and where parents brought

Caption For Eastcote, St Lawrence Parish Church, Bridle Road C1955

Additional land followed; after what appears to have been some behind-the-scenes 'discussions', the architect Charles Nicholson was appointed in 1932 to design the present attractive and well-detailed

Caption For Stansted Mountfitchet, Lower Street C1965

In the foreground of the photograph we can see a beautiful and well-preserved timber-framed house, known as Savages.

Caption For Littleborough, Lake Hotel Cafe C1950

The Lake Hotel had opened in 1872 with a floating landing stage, a subaqueous telegraph linking it to the booking office for ferry steamers, a skating rink, a bowling green and well laid-out

Caption For Over Wyre, Dishdolls Cafe C1955

No longer an eating place, it was well patronised in its day, and well situated in pleasant country near the River Wyre; it was not far from Meadowcroft, the home of Miss Poole, who opens her garden annually

Caption For Acton Burnell, The Castle C1960

The castle at Acton Burnell was built at the end of the 13th century by Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells and Lord Chancellor of England.

Caption For Burnley, Manchester Road 1895

As with so many other towns in the area, it was the Leeds and Liverpool canal which brought about the growth of Burnley, and there is a large piece of that canal history alive and well at the

Caption For Mullion, Golf Links 1911

Modern golfers benefit from the latest technology: an aerodynamic ball, and well-balanced clubs made from a precise blend of metals.

Caption For Mullion, Golf Links 1911

Modern golfers benefit from the latest technology: an aerodynamic ball, and well-balanced clubs made from a precise blend of metals.

Caption For Alfriston, Market Square C1955

The scene is similar today, and well conserved, but all the shops are now engaged in tourist-related trading.

Caption For Pinner, High Street C1955

Pinora, recorded in the Feet of Fines in 1232, is a village of considerable beauty and well-manicured charm.

Caption For Birkenhead, Charing Cross 1967

On the left is the Grange Hotel, a large and well-known pub.