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The Basingstoke Canal, constructed between 1788 and 1794, was supposed to be part of a waterway linking the Thames with both the English and Bristol Channels.

On their way to Aysgarth, carriages would pass through West Witton.

The Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, was an early visitor. His grandson, the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, stayed here on a boyhood walking tour with his tutor.

On the east side (right) is No 32, also known as The Pillars.

Delph and Dobcross were two of the principal villages within Saddleworth.

It was not always quiet on the streets of Penistone; until 1910 cattle and sheep were sold in the streets on Thursdays, and many a deal was struck over a pint or two at the Spread Eagle Hotel.

Cricklade, ten miles from the Thames source, is an ancient town with evidence of Anglo-Saxon town walls as well as of Roman occupation.

The Thames is now flowing into London proper, and we reach Hammersmith, with its monumentally-scaled iron bridge.

Front Street is a long wide high street that leads down to the River Blyth.

The Yeatman Hospital in Hospital Lane was completed in 1864 at a total cost of £2000; the foundation stone was laid by Mrs Wingfield Digby.

Almost at once something went wrong - there was no lack of teaching skills, but the managerial expertise needed was not there.

The central feature here - the stone rotunda standing at Springfield Road corner - had previously marked the conduit-head in Tindal Square.

Dingwall stands on the Cromarty Firth. It was the home town of General Hector MacDonald (1853–1903), who enlisted in the 92nd Highlanders at the age of 17.

This view looks south towards London, along the narrow stretch of Ermine Street or the Old North Road, with its overhanging 17th-century houses and gables.

The conspicuous tower of St Margaret's has long been used as a landmark by mariners negotiating Bideford Bar at the entrance to the Torridge estuary.

St Mary's is reputed to be the oldest church site in Devon.

These boats up on the pink shingle beach are probably rowing boats for hire - they were painted red, white and blue.

Thatched roofs, leaded windows, local stone and a profusion of creepers and roses, set amid lofty trees, make this scene an archetypal image of countryside tranquillity.

Henry Mayhew descibes a typical dockside scene: 'The cooper is hammering at the casts on the quay; the chains of the cranes, loosed of their weight, rattle as they fly up; the ropes splash in the water

Rotten Row, a corruption of route du roi, was a ride set aside for equestrians and fashionable promenaders.

Although efforts are now being made to revive the tourist trade, Hastings has a long way to go to recapture its former glory.

Just to the north of the church, the buildings on the west side of the road take on a varied appearance, the most special being the Three Swans Hotel, which has its origins from at least the early 17th

The clothes of the traders may have changed, but Melton has been at the centre of the sheep farming industry for a number of centuries.

The tramway offered holiday-makers an alternative means of escape from the beach to the Esplanade, other than by the 224 steps cutting through the Spa Gardens, and all for just 1d.