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Some people are fortunate enough to live away from the towns and in the heart of the New Forest, their old cottages looking as much a part of nature as the trees and furze.

Striding Edge 1912 The glaciated knife-edge ridge of Striding Edge was already a popular route of ascent to 3,118 ft Helvellyn when this photograph was taken, if the prominence of the path along

Originally one of four market crosses, the Poultry Cross, at the junction of Butcher Row and Minster Street, is the only one to survive.

At the other end of the Market Square is the bronze statue of James Boswell, drinking companion and biographer of Samuel Johnson.

A charter of 1560 appeared to give the vote to the 'commonality' of the town.

Sailing barges are moored in the harbour, with the Lighthouse in the centre of the picture.The harbour was originally important not just for the coasters and fishing traders, but as the place of

It is a truism that when you want to look at the history (even the relatively recent history) of a place you should always look at the upper storeys of buildings.

There were several dramatic floods in the valley of the Stour in the last half of the 20th century, though its waters seem calm and restrained in this photograph.

This attractive village retains its quiet rural atmosphere; it is ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.

This view of the village was taken from St Bride's. The Square, the building located at the head of the slipway, was once the village post office and is now part of the Mermaid restaurant.

There are plenty of changing tents on this beach, where a group of boys wave at the camera (centre foreground).

Low Row is to the left, the lowest of three similar rows; Middle Row had been demolished by the time of the picture.

A charter of 1560 appeared to give the vote to the 'commonality' of the town. In 1669 Lord Clifford secured the vote of the council, but John Ferrers won because the common people had voted for him.

Cirencester has managed to keep the worst ravages of unsympathetic development at bay.

The Children's Playground is in a westward projection of the common.

Some were critical of the dryness of the company.

With stalls creaking under the weight of locally grown produce, there is no hint of the rationing to come after the outbreak of war the following year.

Mums and children gather round to watch the antics of Punch and Judy, or buy an ice cream from Robinson and Eastwood's stall.

The Pilgrim Fathers' Monument is built of Portland stone and rises 50 feet above the ground.

The ornate obelisk of 1763 commemorates a chapel that once stood on High Bridge.

The Red Lion Inn was built along with the spread of houses out from Cambridge in the 1930s. It faces the war memorial, erected in 1921-22 in memory of those who died in the First World War.

This is the open space that makes up the centre of Coltishall. Summer trade is served by the Eldorado ice cream cart with its well-known invitation to 'Stop Me'.

Despite being in the heart of the Dorset countryside, Netherbury has a number of connections with the sea.

The Windmill pub, on the left, was a new replacement for an earlier building which had burnt down.