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In the early 19th century rebuilding began, but the project was abandoned before it was completed.

It was still in use in the early 1970s, but it was later abandoned and fell prey to vandals. The nave and chancel were finally demolished in December 1998.

This unspoilt walled town on its hilltop site was an important port until Elizabethan times, when the sea abandoned it and its harbour silted up.

Built as Stoneyhurst Hall by Sir Richard Shireburn, the building was abandoned by the family and given to the Catholic Church; it became a school run by Jesuit Priests.

In the early 19th century rebuilding began, but the project was abandoned before completion.

In the early 19th century rebuilding began, but the project was abandoned before completion.

mechanisation of weaving in the early 19th century robbed the village of both its industry and population, and the hall, the inspiration for Ferndean Manor in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, was abandoned

On 28 September 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, landed here and occupied the long-abandoned Roman for- tress, which then occupied a promontory overlooking open sea.

Rochdale abandoned its tramway system in November 1932; it was a casualty of the Depression, along with many of the town's cotton mills.

This revolutionary town planning project was abandoned when insufficient land could be acquired, but not before Laurie Square had been completed with Laurie Hall and these fine town mansions.

It was the era of the railways that killed it off and for years it was abandoned and completely derelict.

Fortunately the scheme was abandoned.

the place to live for those wealthier members of Georgian society who had settled in Exmouth, including Lady Nelson, the estranged wife of the hero of Trafalgar, and Lady Byron, the abandoned

Kippax Park was abandoned in 1929 and finally demolished in the late 1950s, when the land was used for opencast mining.

Ilkley's fort was effectively abandoned in the years AD122-125. Never again did it hold much importance, its stature being much reduced when it was rebuilt as a signal station.

The project was eventually abandoned, but by this time Oban had begun to develop, albeit very slowly.

Several of these ideas, such as the pier, were later abandoned. A group of children pose around a rock pool, with varying degrees of stiffness.

The second was a small, well-designed de Clare stronghold, which seems to have lasted only a couple of hundred years before being abandoned and deliberately destroyed.

Along the way it was abandoned in the dissolution of 1539, the tower collapsed in 1690 and there was a major fire here in 1906. This is now a lost view because of the tree growth in the park.

Oblong in plan, with the church at its southern end and the A47 to the north, the village is entered by long-abandoned medieval roads from Cold Newton to the north, itself a shrunken village, and from

This time the pier was abandoned, and before the war was over it had disappeared completely.

The Channel Tunnel link from Folkestone to mainland France was started in the 1880s, and then abandoned. It was attempted again in 1973.

Fortunately the scheme was abandoned. F r a n c i s F r i t h ' s A r o u n d S o u t h e n d

In 1807 Sir Charles Monck abandoned the old castle for a new residence, Belsay Hall. Built in the Doric style, the Hall was considered an architectural novelty of the day.