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It is complimented by the parish church of St Dionysius next door.

Timber was a major commodity carried on the canal; it was used not only by the building industry, but also in the manufacture of paper and cardboard, then a major Warrington industry.

The five-columned porte-cochere survived; it stood for a few years in the middle of what became a caravan park, until put out of its misery by the demolition men in 1964.

The town is almost completely surrounded by the River Severn, so that most visitors to Shrewsbury enter it over one of its bridges. The English Bridge was built in 1774 by John Gwynne.

Just behind, and visible by the telephone box, is an ornate Victorian cast-iron pump.

Frampton, literally Frome Town, is beautifully situated by the River Frome.

In the distance is the pier, a view now wholly obscured by the enormous funfair, while the front gardens to the sea front villas have long gone.

Now apartments, the convent was established c1850 by the Religious of the Assumption, who ran a girls' boarding school until 1993.

The Stag's Head and (partially obscured by the tree) the monumental masons - Youing's - survive on the corner of the new road.

The lady is looking into one of the numerous prehistoric crop storage pits that had been excavated by the antiquarian C W Dymond a few years previously.

Expelled by the Methodist Conference, the men continued to preach and in 1811 adopted the name Primitive Methodists.

Despite its name, this is actually a fortified manor house, one of the best in the country, built in the 14th-16th centuries by the Gilbert family.

This was followed by the Liverpool-to-Crewe line, and then south to London's Euston.

Esthwaite Water, south of Hawkshead, is one of the quietest of the lakes, and is a Norse name meaning 'the lake by the eastern clearing'.

Today the quay is mostly used by the Lundy ferries.

Sandford Mill, originally built by the Knights Templar in the 13th century, once ground corn. It became a paper mill producing paper for Oxford University.

The clock tower was built by the potter Sir Edmund Elton for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, by which time the shops were spreading towards the sea front with tourist development.

A busy weekly market stood by the crossing.

Saltford's original village lies on a hillside tunnelled underneath by the Great Western Railway.

The post office/shop by the Morris is still there, along with the Jubilee Hall, opposite, which was built for meetings.

A difficult descent can be made to the golden sand (see the footprints, centre), but this is a very easy place to get cut off by the tide.

Bembridge is the location of a famous public school founded in the first half of the 20th century by the spirited Mr Whitehouse.

The church was targeted by the suffragettes during a campaign of violence following the government's refusal to grant votes for women.

The original circular window above was replaced by the two round-arched windows in the late 15th century.