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The county runs out here: the roads from Dormansland lead a short way to the border with either Kent or Sussex.

All Saints Church is an interesting one, with Anglo-Saxon 'long and short work' quoins to the nave and an Anglo-Saxon tower with an elaborate Norman west doorway and arcading.

Owing to inadequate foundations, the tower of St John's showed signs of stress shortly after it was built in 1420.

The village itself is rather a tale of two halves: this area around the former village green has the shops, and the other half, a short distance away, is focused on the church.

Pilley is a short stroll from Boldre on an ancient route to the vast expanse of Beaulieu Heath.

Shortly after their construc- tion, the village's most famous son was born, William Dampier.

Shortly afterwards the bandstand was removed to this spot from its position on the promenade. It was refurbished and re- opened in July 1990.

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

The first was during the building of the seafront at Torquay, when sand dredged from the river was landed here; and the second was in the 1970s, when for a short time Browse Brothers' fleet used the

Its former watermill, also partly Tudor, is approached down a short leafy lane and has in recent years been carefully restored.

A car passes up the High Street, while a horse-drawn conveyance comes down the hill.Wright's Garage, on the right, emphasises that shortly after the First World War the internal combustion engine had

As well as general cargo shipped through the port, the amount of fish landed at St Andrew's Dock during this year, amounted to 1,580,959 cwts.

In a few short years four large homes for sufferers from tuberculosis were established in the resort.

Notwithstanding the 'shorts only' rule, some of the boys found comfort from a blanket draping their knees.

The railway reached Portrush with the construction of a short branch line from Coleraine on the Belfast to Londonderry line.

Following the railway journey, which was frequently a short one, the day-trippers could find suitable refreshments in the Pontsarn Hotel.

The woman's short-skirted summer dress and cloche hat are typical of the early 1930s.

A sail-powered fishing boat returns to port, ready to unload its catch. Note the smoke stack of a paddle steamer tied to the Lighthouse Pier.

What makes the Wet Dock so useful is that it is a non-tidal section of the port. Water in the dock is held at a con- stant level by the lock gates.

Sixty years on, Beccles has declined as a port, with goods being carried more by road. The church is unusual in that the 92 feet high tower is actually separate from the nave.

With numbers of worshippers falling dramatically, and the prospect of the inner relief road being built, it was knocked down in 1980: a sadly short life for such a wonderful building, as this interior

Often referred to affectionately as 'Cleveland's Matterhorn', the distinctive profile of Roseberry Topping lies a short distance to the west of Guisborough, between Pinchinthorpe and Great

Bishops Walk, the quiet riverside path, was shortly to be replaced by the main road to be known as Lambeth Palace Road and the Albert Embankment.

The bridge was built in 1826 by Thomas Penson, who also built Llanidloes' Short Bridge in 1850.