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Bransgore, a few miles from Bournemouth, is a beautiful village of considerable antiquity, just outside the present boundary of the New Forest.

On the left is the Chatsworth Hotel of the 1870s, yet another Eastbourne one named after something to do with the Dukes of Devonshire.

Beyond the hump-backed 15th-century bridge over the River Darent, and the adjoining ford, is a picturesque Tudor house and a line of cottages looking out onto the grassy banks.

Across the sluggish waters of the River Stour, the Bridgegate, usually called the Barbican, was built in 1539 with semi-circular flanking bastions.

Amongst the many hills that can be seen from the summit of Bradnor Hill, Hergest Ridge lies towards the south west.

This is an attractive approach road into the town centre of Sleaford. The grass verge has gone to make way for a cycle path.

Once the cliff paths around Littleham were used by coastguards, who were on constant watch for smuggling activities.

On the left is the sombre but reassuringly secure frontage of the Capital and Counties Bank.

Wilfred Owen, who must rank as one of Britain's finest war poets, was born in Oswestry in 1893. He was later to die in the very last days of the First World War.

The Bear and Billet public house in Lower Bridge Street was built in 1664; until 1867 it was the town house of the earls of Shrewsbury.

This view of the station was taken before parts of the station were sacrificed to accommodate the present station car park.

In those days railway companies were forbidden from owning passenger ships without Parliamentary approval, a fact not lost on the LB&SCR's arch-rival the London & South Eastern.

Details are difficult to make out in this pre-restoration photograph, but in front of the gateway tower is the ruined barbican, and in front of that is the much overgrown octagonal island, which at one

Construction of Colchester Castle is thought to have started around 1080, and in 1101 it was granted to Eudo the Steward by Henry I.

It is thought that the name Knot came from the sea bird, as there used to be flocks of them here—Knott End assumed the extra 't' only in recent years.

Sixty years after No 24920 was taken, the proliferation of the motor vehicle occupying the kerbs is noticeable.

They lived in a cluster of mud-daubed cottages built of wreck timber close to the walls of the church - hence Church Town.

The south-west side of Ware High Street changed drastically when it was decided to build a new Tesco Store in 1960.

Heysham Tower was built by T J Knowles in about 1837, and it was the home of the Cawthra family.

The small section with the bell tower is the only remaining part of the old Freeston High School; it was built in 1592 with an endowment from John Freeston, who lived at Altofts Hall.

This view shows Peveril Point, eastwards to its lookout and fort (far left), which with a semaphore mounted on Round Down, operated as a Royal Navy signal station during the Napoleonic Wars

Farther downstream from here on the other side of the bridge were the premises of the Wye Fisheries, Stuart House.

We can also see St Luke's Church at the top of the street. This church was designed in 1802 by John Foster Senior.

Situated at the edge of a wild tract of limestone country, the town was generally called Skipton-in-Craven.