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This is one of Exmouth's two bowling greens - the other is at the back of the town at Phear Park. The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

Mells Manor, largely Elizabethan, was built on the site of a medieval monastic manor.

From this elevated view point we get the impression of what must have appeared a somewhat green street.

Queen Victoria commissioned George Gilbert Scott to create the highly decorated interior of this 15th century Chapel to commemorate her husband, Prince Albert, who died in 1861.

The ruins of the once luxurious state rooms at Bolsover Castle. It was probably in these rooms that the Duke of Newcastle lavished thousands of pounds on entertaining Charles I.

Studland has one of the best and least tampered-with beaches in Dorset - a real reminder of those halcyon days when such luminaries as George III promoted the merits of sea bathing.

The corners of the squat tower of St Mary's are adorned with ornate buttresses. The lower part of the tower is medieval; the upper part was rebuilt after it collapsed in 1608.

Virginia creeper has now spread to every inch of stonework on the 18th-century house (centre right). On the skyline, in the gap, are the three-storey lines of Grove House in Rax Lane (right).

Much of the life of the town revolves around the Saturday influx to the weekly market.

Our brief tour of Lincoln's surrounding villages begins to the west in Doddington village.

Around the corner in Elms Road (which retains many of its mid-Victorian villas) is the Henry Thornton School, within the same site as the Marianne Thornton (C327056) and also part of the Clapham Centre

The great age of the market cross, with its uneven steps and remains of the punishment stocks, is apparent. A Market Charter was granted in the 14th century.

In the 1960s, the pace of building new housing quickened. Caton is popular as a retreat for commuters, who enjoy the moorland country near by with its fine views of Morecambe Bay.

Billy Banks Wood, prominent in views from Castle Walk, is ancient 'hanging' woodland clinging to limestone rock on the south bank of the River Swale just west of Richmond Castle.

The King's Head's three doorways can be seen, and the inn-signs of a carved bunch of grapes and a portrait of King Charles II.

Only a year old when this picture was taken, this pink granite obelisk was erected in memory of Christian Victor, Prince of Schleswig Holstein and grandson of Queen Victoria, who died in the Boer War

The completion of Turf Lock in 1830 enabled vessels to enter the canal and proceed up to Exeter regardless of the state of the tide; the maximum dimensions possible were 122ft x 25ft x 10.5ft.

This is a double hammer beam roof, an exclusively East Anglian structure of which Suffolk has two-thirds of the total.

The smooth tarmaced surface of Brand Street contrasts with the rutted and rough surface of the 1800s.

This narrow lane shows exactly how the back streets of the old town would have looked 200 years ago.

St Chad's College, the smallest of the Durham colleges, was licensed in 1904 by the Durham University Senate as the first independent hall of the university.

The park, situated along the Yarm Road, was the gift of Sir Robert Ropner, and was opened by the Duke and Duchess of York on 4 October 1893.

St Mary's position in the centre of the town, and the dominating height of its splendid 16th-century tower at 90 feet, make it one of the most prominent buildings in Brecon.