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Few streets still follow their original medieval plans, though not all have been lost since 1945. Butcher Row went long ago.

The bulk of the present castle dates from its rebuilding following a fire in 1816.

Here Miss Gibson followed the Bishop's suggestion to open a school for high-class girls, and here Nurse Edith Cavell taught.

The hills at the back are Mellor Knott and, to the left, Totridge Fell, along which the old border looped, climbing from the river to follow the watershed.

Following a land dispute with Reginald de Grey, Owain proclaimed himself Prince of Wales and rose against the English in 1400.

Its rapid development followed the opening of the railway station on the Epsom to Waterloo line in 1932.

This is Main Bay, which changed its name to Viking Bay following the arrival in 1949 of a replica Viking ship, the Hugin.

When the canal was built and linked the town with Manchester, new industries soon followed.

Thought to have been used since the Bronze Age, the track through the valley was one of several routes followed by packhorse drivers, who carried goods across the moorland hills between Lancashire

The pitched roof to the tower has gone and street lighting shows an advance on the following picture (p. 60-61), here it is fluorescent!

The village has recently grown enormously following the building of a dual carriageway linking the area with Wrexham and Chester, and many people from here now commute to those towns.

No attempt was made to match the original chapel — the addition followed the Gothic Revival style.

Back across the river, via the Batheaston toll bridge, follow the Avon south before turning right to Monkton Combe, a delightful village nestling in the valley of the Midford Brook.

It was here and on the Market Place that local people met to protest about unemployment and hardship in the years following the defeat of Napoleon.

This last chapter follows on geographically from where the fourth chapter finished, at Burgh le Marsh four miles west of Skegness.

Once the village of Ebbisham, its immense popularity as a spa resort after the Restoration, followed by its emergence as a racing centre, brought Epsom to national prominence.

It opened on 26 August 1936, and the first film to be shown was 'Follow the Fleet' starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Following the move of the gaol and assizes to Bodmin in 1842, the grounds were landscaped and turned into a pleasure park by the Duke of Northumberland.

Following their defeat at the Battle of Dunbar, Major General David Leslie and several thousand survivors of his army took shelter in Stirling. The town eventually fell to General Monk.

'Discovered' in 1873 and restored the following year, its origin is still unknown. It may represent a pilgrim, and this may link it to the medieval Wilmington Priory nearby.

At the height of the season, Peel harbour was often full of fishing boats - Manx, Cornish, Irish and Scottish - as they followed the migrating herring into Scottish waters.

There was a time when Corbridge held a weekly market, but this petered out as the town declined following the Civil War.

This was finally implemented in Britain in 1752, whereupon the 2nd September was, somewhat abruptly, followed by the 14th.

These buildings were once part of the large estates belonging to the Middleton, Horne and Norney families, which were broken up and sold in the years following the Second World War.