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More often than not the privilege of establishing a market had to be bought, and the lord needed to be sure of a return on his investment.

Prehistoric Cams Most people enjoying a round of golf on the Cams Hall Estate today are probably unaware of the existence of the 429 pieces of worked flint that were recovered during topsoil stripping

They are home not only to rare birds such as redshank, snipe, lapwing, reed bunting, little ringed plover, goosander, shoveler, tufted duck and widgeon, but also to endangered mammals like the

They are home not only to rare birds such as redshank, snipe, lapwing, reed bunting, little ringed plover, goosander, shoveler, tufted duck and widgeon, but also to endangered mammals like the

This had been a truly village occasion, one which the Stanleys attended but did not control.

Up to 20 stables ran their horses on the gallops at Six Mile Hill.

Other notable changes in town before the Second World War were the straightening of Marlow Hill in 1936, which involved demolishing buildings on the left side of the road south of St Mary's Street

Seven were killed in there, along with another 37 elsewhere at the plant. I'd spoken to Dennis Orchard ten minutes before he died. They were working on the early jet engines in V block.

Sheffield in the Victorian period also saw a very large expansion of its housing stock not only to house the rapidly growing number of workers in the light and heavy steel industries but also to

We see an operative cinema, but only a closed Georgian Theatre, and there is no hint of the important racehorse-training tradition.

Horses were widely used to deliver coal and other provisions, but even this method of transport was not always successful, since the horses sometimes stuck in the mud, injured themselves badly

We see an operative cinema, but only a closed Georgian Theatre, and there is no hint of the important racehorse-training tradition.

MILTON KEYNES'S first known resident once swam around in the area now known as Caldecotte Lake.

This experiment in autonomy was not set to continue, however. In 1066, Britain would suffer its last - and most far-reaching - armed invasion.

On the top of Ashcombe Hill (now Ranmore Hill) there was a farm; here, perhaps, John Denby lived, a one-time farmer who was referred to at a Court Baron held in 1555.

From the hill behind the town there is a splendid view of the German ocean.' This was how Morris & Co's Directory viewed Aldeburgh in 1868.

Bottomley did not pay his bills on time, and sometimes not at all, but he played the role of a genial squire with gusto; besides building estate cottages, he also bred race horses.

High Curly Hill is a noted viewpoint on Bagshot Heath in the Lightwater Country Park, with a marked trail leading to the hilltop.

The Butter Market was used to sell not just butter but any other commodities that the farmers' wives could sell while their husbands attended the main markets in the town.

It stands 76ft high and is a notable Clyde estuary landmark, looking across to the light on the Gantock rocks.

The Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Railway Company put forward a bill to undertake the work, which was finally sanctioned on 21 June 1864.