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There was a castle here, which was besieged by King Stephen in 1138, but its keep has long gone; only its outline is marked on the grass of its hill at the end of Bailey Street.

Longridge stands about six miles from Preston on the Clitheroe Road. It still shows many of the signs of a country village, and is complete with its Market Square, as our photograph shows.

The Main General Post Office is on the left of the photograph. Gone are the days when it opened seven days a week from 7.30am to late in the evening.

Dating from 1823, they are in a pallid and unconvincing Gothick, its symmetry giving away the fact that Smirke was not designing in his normal Neo-Classical style.

Dating from 1823, they are in a pallid and unconvincing Gothick, its symmetry giving away the fact that Smirke was not designing in his normal Neo-Classical style.

It was built in 1848-49 by the North Staffordshire Railway Company (nicknamed the Knotty after its emblem the Stafford Knot), to link local services to the main London line at Colwich.

In 1893 the natural lake of Haweswater nestled peacefully in the unspoilt and beautiful valley of Mardale. At this time the road to Mardale village ran along the west side of the lake.

During the summer of 1894, Oscar Wilde and his family occupied this house overlooking the sea at the eastern end of the extended Esplanade.

It was served by Evans Corner and this comprehensive parade of shops on the Rush Green Road at Dagenham Road crossroads.

A spa was established at Hockley after 1838, when a Mrs Clay claimed that she had been cured of asthma by a well in her garden.

A continuation of Church Street, Chapel Street leads on to the High Street.

The A272 is the right-hand road, with St Wilfrid`s church in the distance, whilst the left-hand road leads to the junction with Boltro Road and further on, over the railway, reaches the

There is another village in Bisley - that of the clubhouses and mobile homes found at the National Rifle Association's ranges.

People first settled here at the foot of the North Downs because of the fresh water springs emerging from where the chalk meets a band of clay.

His story 'The Fox' was first published in 1923 and is set at Bailey Farm, which Lawrence based on Grimsbury Farm just outside the village.

Much of the foliage has disappeared since this picture was taken. Today, walkers and fishermen can be seen at intervals along the canal, as well as colourful boating activity.

On the horizon is the tower of the church at Kirby Hill (left). Also in the village is the Bay Horse Inn (1857).

This view looks towards St Lawrence's church.

Visually unaltered, the memorial is still the focus of remembrance in the city.

Most of Alcester Street was demolished in the 1960s, but this small part of it survived.

This church opened in 1900, replacing St Mary's Church, which formerly stood in the centre of Flookburgh.

At the left was Jackson's the butcher's, now an electrical shop. The sign below the fourth bow window from the left indicates a café – it is now a furniture store.

The clock tower was offered to the railway to be built by the station, but the offer was declined – so it was built by the parish church.

Lympstone suffered economic depression at the end of the Napoleonic Wars when its shipbuilding yards closed. A number of residents moved to Devonport to continue their trade.