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Half a mile south of the hamlet with the parish church and Chiddingly Place is another small hamlet, Muddles Green, where cottages fringe a small green.

The first ride was a figure-of-eight ride, housed in two First World War hangers. There was a bandstand on the green, an outdoor and indoor skating rink, three cinemas and a stage for pierrots.

On the right is the White Horse, run by George Rampling; next door is Boggis's the drapers in the 18th-century building with dormer windows; then comes William Alston's 'Second Hand Furniture Warehouse

The cliffs rise to about 70ft, and are the seaward end of the chalk ridge which stretches right across Norfolk.

At the end of the 19th century, this was a boom town for lead mining. High on the valley side, old workings can still be seen.

This early Elizabethan mansion was built on the site of the former house of the abbot of Bury St Edmunds by Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls, who founded the hospital on the Green.

In 1879 the only development along Vann Road was two chapels: an Ebenezer Chapel built in 1852 just beyond the slate-hung Hazel Cottage, on the right, and a Methodist one, whose roof slope and gable

If, as has been reported, it is not the most beautiful village in Hertfordshire, Westmill is certainly among the most photographed.

The castle (right) dominates the centre of this large market town at the entrance to Swaledale.

The first ride was a figure-of-eight ride, housed in two World War I hangers. There was a bandstand on the green, an outdoor and indoor skating rink, three cinemas and a stage for Pierrots.

The gardens were laid out in front of the North Euston Hotel, which by 1861 had become Euston Barracks.

Looking across the green at the airy and spacious village, we see the Old Rectory (left); the tallest of the next three buildings is the old police station and court house, with the White Heifer pub on

During the Civil War, Newnham, like many Royalist garrisons surrounding Gloucester, was on the receiving end of a raid mounted by Colonel Edward Massey's forces.

Geoff Cox said: 'I think the negative image goes back to Lorraine Chase and the Luton Airport advertisement (for Campari); it led to the naff town idea.

The statue of John Howard, the founder of the Howard Leagyue for Penal Reform, broods over the Sqaure - and perhaps over the irony of its location - close to the old Town Gaol that allegedly once held

Of course, private parties and firework displays lit up the sky for an hour or two, but within the town itself the event was marked solely by a countdown clock in the Market Square.

of the parish.

This last alludes to the town's on-going military associations, from the North York Militia, through the Green Howards to Catterick Camp.

of the parish.

This last alludes to the town's on-going military associations, from the North York Militia, through the Green Howards to Catterick Camp.

Some of the most notable developments of the new millennium have taken place at the Eynesbury end of the town.