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This is another exceptional little town, set in its own south-facing timbered valley just east of the escarpment between Stroud and Gloucester. It is a place that makes grey look very good.

There is another 18th-century house on the opposite side of the street, built in 1769 as Rev James Rooker`s Academy (right).

Originally called Dunstable Street, there is no available record of the reason for the change of name apart from the coincidence of the accession to the throne of King George V.

Yet another clothier's church, St Mary's at Steeple Ashton had a steeple, as the village name implies, but it was blown down in 1670. Stone vaulting in the nave has been replaced with wood.

When he died the country was still 90% Saxon; the Normans' policy, like the Romans', was 'divide and rule', with the majority of England's two million people subject to the Norman fist.

It is interesting that the boatman is using an oar on the starboard side, and is watching the effect on the craft as the boy standing with both hands on the port oar takes the strain on the rowlock.

The girl carrying a baby (left) and the children playing in the boats are noticeably not visitors.

vestiges of the same industry in Bradford on Avon (it produced, among others things, the rubber washers used worldwide in aero- sol cans) are about to undergo commercial and residential development on the

On the third Tuesday in September, the Harpenden Statty Fair (Statute Fair) was held on the common close to the pond and the adjacent Triangle.

The River Beane runs close to the church, and is liable to heavy flooding.

Three years prior to the date of this photograph, an Australian visitor claimed that for its six hundred inhabitants there were five licensed premises along two hundred yards of Wrecclesham's main street

Seven miles from the Humber and to the west of Hull, Cottingham was another desirable place to live for prosperous merchants; in the 18th century there were five magnificent houses here, which were all

The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage. The yacht is typical of those developed since the 1930s for use on the Broads.

Muster Green is another open space maintained by the local council, and it flanks the A272.

Portmadoc handled slate traffic from both south Caernarvon and north Merioneth; the schooners were able to call upon the services of a tug for towing either in or out of the harbour.

The milestone is known to the locals as 'the pineapple'; it is inscribed with names and mileages from Holt to Norfolk's principal towns.

The area caught the attention of both William Wordsworth, who visited the village and featured it in a poem, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, who wrote Come into the Garden, Maud at Brancepeth.

Another view of the south front shows the extent of the alterations and extensions carried out by Richard Chaloner and his wife Margaret, who was also instrumental in the laying out of the

The new library and mayoral suite were seen as the first phase of a new block of civic buildings, though in fact it was another 30 years before the rest of the site - the Civic Centre and Civic

The road on the right leads to the church, dedicated to St Mary and built between the 12th and the 15th centuries.

It is interesting that the boatman is using an oar on the starboard side, and is watching the effect on the craft as the boy standing with both hands on the port oar takes the strain on the rowlock.

A splendid open car heads north, driving in the middle of the road. The house on the left had belonged to Dr Atkinson, who died in 1917.

One of the most important cross- village links, Gores Lane appears under one guise or another on all the oldest maps of Formby.

By 1955 both Russell Street and George Street had become one way, as the road signs indicate.