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The origins of St Nicholas' Church date back to the 12th century.

The church has a chalice and paten dating back to the 16th century, and in its grounds stands the 10th-century cross of Irbic.

Here we see Conigar Walk running down the bank of the River Usk.

On the right hand side is the Bank of Ireland, a building dating from Georgian times and once the home of the Irish Parliament.

How many of these men came back by the end of the following year?

Kendal Grammar School sits alongside the banks of the River Kent.

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

The Swan, which dates back to the Middle Ages, was originally known as the Yew Tree (after a nearby yew) but changed its name in the 18th century when it was a busy inn on the London-Brighton turnpike

However, mothers and children manage to find space and the boats form useful back-rests.

The maids seem to find the visitor ready for a chat, and the lad on the carriage looks back also.

The town is studded with fine brick and flint houses with steep pantiled roofs - on the right is the flamboyant brick and pebble Barclay's Bank.

The miller for many years was Mr Fred Banks.

The black-painted smock windmill, set back from the road, and the prominent Cricketers pub facing the local cricket pavilion, are both local landmarks.

On the extreme left is J F White's tobacconist's shop next door to the branch of Lloyds Bank, while across the road is the entrance to Cheam Station Approach, with the offices of Morgan, Baines & Clark's

On the right, the street still awaits the out-of-scale London and Counties bank, erected in 1892.

At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.

Georgian buildings abound in the town, although it harks back to Tudor times; it owes much of its early development to Thomas Seckford, a lawyer at the court of Elizabeth I.

The three-arched, balustraded bridge at Shillingford dates back to 1827 and carries the Wallingford to Thame road over the river.

Buckland Rings, the great earthworks nearby, probably date back to the Iron Age, though the Romans used the fortifications during their invasion of England - coins of the Emperor Claudius have been found

In 1908, the view of the town looking back under the bridge was unobstructed.

This view, looking back towards the town centre, shows both the Congregational and parish churches.

Backed with a wind-break of Corsica pine planted by Thomas William Coke in the mid 19th century, this area is a breeding ground for birds such as terns, redshank and oystercatchers.

In 1551 the property of the Corpus Christi Guild ended up with Lord Clinton, and then the Marquis of Northampton claimed that of the other four guilds, though he handed back to the Corporation

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.