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In 1844 it was acquired by the Dean and Chapter to use for St Peter's School, which had outgrown its former site. It is now the oldest public school in England.

John Fell, Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford, engaged Christopher Wren to crown the main gateway with this splendid creation, transferring the medieval bell from the cathedral to the college

It was named Dean Close in honour of Francis Close, sometime Bishop of Carlisle.

Moving north, deeper into the Vale of Taunton Deane, we reach the cob or earth wall country, where whitewashed rendered cottages with thatched roofs become common.

Until the railways came, coal from the Forest of Dean also arrived on board barges.

Apart from earlier royal connections, the Queen's Armes buildings were for a time a school, run by the Congregational minister, the Rev Benjamin Jeanes.

First class county status was achieved in 1899, even though the county ground was simply three hay fields, rented from the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral.

The Dean's chapel in the south quire transept has a 13th-century frieze of carvings in the spandrels of the arcading (that is, between the tops of the adjoining arches).

Firmly back in Bedfordshire and heading south, our route passes through Blunham, a most attractive village, where the poet John Donne was rector from 1622 until his death in 1632, although he was also Dean

The school in the background was founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul's, to provide education for 144 boys.

Various benefactors, including John Forest, Dean of Wells, came to the rescue, and work on the college was eventually finished.

John Fell, one-time Dean of Christ Church, engaged Christopher Wren to crown the main gateway with Tom Tower, transferring the medieval bell known as Old Tom from the cathedral to the college.

During the early part of the 18th century, a local parson named Jonathan Darby from the parish of East Dean unofficially displayed a candle-burning lantern hung in a hollow carved out of the chalk

Six miles from Durham and twelve miles from Darlington, Ferryhill was only a hamlet until the development of Dean & Chapter Colliery.

One such attack was made against Lydney, where Sir John Winter, Royalist commander in the Forest of Dean, lived in the heavily fortified White House.

Dean Row chapel is one of a series of very similar Dissenter chapels built in North East Cheshire soon after the 1688 Toleration Act, testimony to the strong Nonconformist tradition that had developed

They consist of three tiers, the topmost of which is for the Knights of the Garter and the dean and canons; the centre one is for the Military Knights, minor canons and the choirmen; and the lowest

The gateposts mark the entrance to the Dean's Court Estate - the griffins' heads represent the Hanham family crest.

Immediately behind was the long established firm of Dean & Son, suppliers of garden materials. Sad to say, there is now a large block of flats on the site.

When the Huguenots arrived from France, the Dean and Chapter gave them the Lady Chapel as their place of worship - it was separated from the rest of the cathedral and remained in their use until the 18th

The Rectory in South Street, on the south side of St Mary's Parish Church, was the home of the Rural Dean, Rev Henry Richard William Farrer, who was an honorary canon of Salisbury Cathedral.

Coleford and Cinderford, the Speech House was built in 1676 as the Court of Verderers and Freeminers - the place where legal grievances relating specifically to the laws and customs of the Forest of Dean

Even her Protestant sister Elizabeth I loved the old monk; on her succession, she pleaded with John to give up Catholicism and become her Dean. He

Partly hidden from view, on this side of the road and by the dry-cleaner's, is the restored Dean Incent's house with its timbered frontage and leaded glass windows; the closely neighbouring hostelries