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The chapel is famed for its pillar of entwined ribbands. The story is that the chief stonemason went to Italy to study a similar pillar.

In the 1860s, after the demise of the stages, many of its rooms were let out to lodgers.

Hove's genteel grandeur continued to appeal to those who found Brighton somewhat too lively, and the town expanded north into the Downs in tides of suburban housing.

Aldborough, just one mile from Boroughbridge, stands on the site of the Roman station Isurium, and has a museum containing Roman remains.

There has probably been a church here for a thousand years, high on the hill overlooking the creek that once flowed from Stonehouse to Pennycomequick.

We see good examples of slate-hung houses; these slates are large, and they have even been used to board up the windows of the disused house on the right.

In medieval times St John's was a cluster of timber-framed houses round the church, and a busy junction on the roads to Malvern, Hereford and Leominster.

There is plenty of daylight from the windows, but note the oil lamps hanging from the timber ceiling; part of the heating arrangement is seen on the left, foreground. There is seating for 100.

This is not a natural rock formation, but one carved out deliberately by the quarrymen extracting building stone, used for the construction of Cheltenham, from this precipitous cliff face.

This view shows the backs of buildings along Kempock Street. Kempock Place is just in view on the extreme left. Over to the right is Seaton's temperance hotel, one of several in the town.

The right-hand side of the street has changed almost beyond recognition over the years. Maffey's has gone, and is now a private house with a portico.

Old Bridge Road c1955 The hilltop village of Bloxham has a striking parish church with an intricately designed late 14th-century tower and spire, possibly completed by the same masons who worked

It is suggested that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the King to Roger de Fiennes to 'embattle' his manor-house

Petworth House was re-built at the end of the 17th century; it incorporated a 13th-century chapel and undercroft that was already on the site.

Amberley Castle, which lies on higher ground above the River Arun's flood plain, is in fact a fortified manor house constructed between the 13th and 16th centuries by the Bishops of Chichester as part

This is the birthplace of the celebrated 20th-century actress, Dame Sybil Thorndike. Little has changed here over the years, despite the growth of the paper mill.

Queen Victoria's second son, the Duke of Edinburgh, had these amazing portico towers built around 1878. Along with the gatehouse next door, they announce the entrance to Eastwell Manor.

This view of the parade is taken from the junction with Fox Hollies Road, at the opposite end to photograph No A136028.

A church is known to have stood on this site in the 14th century, but only the base of its tower survives.

It was commissioned from James Forsyth by the Earl of Dudley, and was displayed at the Paris Exhibition in 1867 before being installed in its present position.

This is one of the oldest schools in the Midlands. The timber-framed upper storey, supported on pillars, was built in the 15th century; the ground floor was underbuilt in the Elizabethan period.

The hotel on the left here is The Fox and Goose, one of several large pubs on the main road at Penn, a reminder that this has for centuries been a major line of communication.

Bracebridge Pool was formed around 1420 and leased to Sir Ralph Bracebridge at a yearly rent of £10 or 120 bream.

It looks horribly dated now, but this was state-of-the-art opulence in 1965.