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The Abbey was held for Bruce by Sir John Airth, but during the hours of darkness on the night of 22/23 June 1314 it was raided by the Earl of Atholl, a supporter of Edward II.

It was later replaced by the present elegant one by John Oldrid Scott, who also designed the spire of St Luke's in Maidenhead.

He survived the difficulties, and spent many years campaigning against conditions in the country's prisons and the indignities suffered by the inmates.

Dominated by the Town Hall on its west side, and sheltered by trees and hedges, sandwiches could be consumed and pigeons fed on the crusty remnants.

Then comes the Presbytery and the red brick Roman Catholic church of St Mary and St John, designed by the Catholic architect Leonard Stokes, which opened in December 1893.

farm livestock.The village is now cut in two by a very busy dual carriageway, and is the location of the University of Sussex campus.The scene is similar today, but most properties are now used by the

It is now run by the Benedictine Order as a monastery and public school. In the picture we see the Priest's House and the lychgate; both have Horsham stone roofing.

Next to these premises, by the bus stop, stands the sports shop of Harold Fleming, the famous footballer who played for Swindon Town from 1907-24; he was capped for England eleven times.

By the 1960s, traffic in Whitstable is beginning to get heavy. The Nelson in Harbour Street is in the centre of the photograph.

Because the priory was used by the parish, at the time of the Dissolution it was ordered 'that it stand still'.

There is also a working watermill with an iron water wheel powered by the River Maun, and an accompanying tea room.

By the time the castle was finished in around 1200, Richmond had grown in size; a market has been held here since 1155.

In the opposite corner is the village school founded by the gift of £180 from a tailor, James Thistleton.

We go north-east to Willesden, an area mostly developed by the end of the 19th century with lower-class terrace housing which swamped the hamlets that made up the parish.

Before that, it had been a sparsely-inhabited parish, whose medieval church had collapsed by the early 18th century.

The original Hoylake baths were opened in June 1913, and were filled by the sea flowing over a low sea wall.

Around the Market Place at this time were a large number of pubs used by the town's seafarers (South Shields had the largest number of seamen as a proportion of its population than anywhere else in Britain

It was owned by the Benedictine monks at nearby Ramsey Abbey, whom the local farmers tended to regard as crooks.

At one time just under half of Surrey's settlements had at least one mill; by the 1830s there were 47 working mills in Surrey.

The new building was re-opened by the Queen Mother on 28 May 1959.

It was unveiled on 11 February 1923 by Col Viscount Hardinge; the first wreath was laid by the mother of Captain Eric Dougall, a local man awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for bravery

The latter two were run by the Disney family. A garage has been added to this side of the shop.

Lucy's Ledge Jetty (lower right) was constructed by the eminent geologist Sir Henry de la Beche in 1820.

Five miles west is Bruton, a town built mainly of Lias limestone, bisected by the River Brue.