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Lying just to the north of Chilham is this small and curiously named hamlet where, until the beginning of the 20th century, an annual race was staged between two village youths and two maidens for a

Looking west along the High Street, we see on the right the Dog and Gun, a Phipps public house, now closed and converted to a private house.

The first effective spinning mill in the west of Scotland was built at Rothesay. Between 1787 and 1834, the number of cotton mills in Scotland rocketed from just 19 to 134.

Beyond is the late 15th-century church of St Mary; its superb west tower owes its scale and magnificence to the town's medieval wool prosperity, and is something of a copy of Wells Cathedral's sublime

The Cathedral 1888 A springtime photograph of the massive and imposing cathedral, the first in Britain and the seat of the Primate of All England, as well as one of Europe's most celebrated places

We are west of Addlestone. Here the A320 Guildford Road meets the A319 Chobham Road and the B3121, Murray Road, from Addlestone at what is now a large roundabout.

West of the village are the grounds of Rushton Hall where Sir Thomas Tresham, the zealous Roman Catholic convert, once lived around 1600.

The tall west tower, which has battlements and pinnacles, is early Perpendicular.

Only a year old when this picture was taken, this pink granite obelisk was erected in memory of Christian Victor, Prince of Schleswig Holstein and grandson of Queen Victoria, who died in the Boer War

Four years before this photograph was taken, the famous writer and poet Hilaire Belloc walked across Sussex from Robertsbridge in the east to Harting in the west.

Looking West We are looking across the lake to the houses in Durham Street, with the Presbyterian church roof in the centre of the picture, and the Holy Rood Roman Catholic church on

Odiham and North Warnborough have a combined population of 4,700. Approximately 45 miles west of London, North Warnborough is not far from junction 5 of the M3.

This bridge is a railway bridge, and is now part of the west coast main line.Another railway bridge (to Blackburn) can be seen in the distance.

It is a sunny day in this quiet village that stands between the water meadows of the River Wey and Alice Holt Forest.

In this view, the photographer looks south-east back past the corner of High Street to St John's Street and St John's 15th-century west tower. To the left is St Mary's Church spire.

Here the photographer looks along West Street away from the Market Place.

We are looking west towards Station Road and the church - the delicate spire was added to the tower in 1712.

Between the 1880s and the early 1920s, workers flocked from all over the south-west to find work in Abertillery's coal mines.

The County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s by the architects Thomas Wyatt and David Brandon.

Off West Street, behind Sparnham House, was the site of one of Ashburton's two umber mines - the only ones in the country.

This photograph looks from the west towards St Austell in its rural setting.

The local sandstone is not that durable, and St Stephen's has needed more than one restoration in the course of its relatively short life.

Designed by Henry Edward Kendall in 1839, and situated to the west of Cockfosters Underground station, this stock brick church was financed by the Bevan family who owned Trent Park, and whose origins were

The picturesque village is situated on a minor east-west road, rising up from the reservoir past Sir James Pennethorne's hall, which took some twenty years to complete, the medieval parish church and