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Recent research suggests that rituals may have been held here, in fact, on the shortest day of the year, as a way of bringing back the sun at the darkest time of the year.

Seven miles to the east of Hull but totally isolated from urban ways, Paull has a history stretching back to the days of Charles I.

There was no unbroken link back to the earlier settlers who had been drawn here by the fertile gravel farmland.

Soon after that the prisoners were released, and the soldiers marched back to camp.

Certainly people as different as George Borrow and Lee Chapman have looked back on their days in the town with affection.

This is the westerly end of Lydstep Cavern Beach; here we see the aptly named Saddle Back and Saddle Point, with the cave and fissures worn into the vertical strata of limestone.

The barber's shop with its prominent shaving sign dated back to the 18th century.

Look carefully at the unified appearance of this cul-de-sac as it backs onto Bush Hill Golf course.

Possibly the most obvious are the loss of the cinema on the opposite side of the road from Lloyd's Bank (H276053, in the mid distance, right) and the rebuilding of the church (H276132, right)

It was eventually bought back by the Macleans and has been restored.

Loughborough University is at the cutting edge of science and technology yet, at the same time, it has a high reputation in sports that themselves stretch back to the ancient world of the original

In March 1902 she sold the hall and its 62 acres to Burnley for the very low price of £17,500, and she gave some of the money back to pay for the art gallery it was to house.

Recently, extensive excavations in the garden revealed pottery and ceramics dating back to late Saxon times.

As far back as 1861, when sheep were grazing on Hungry Moor, it was laid down that the moor was to be kept open and never built upon.

Carlisle marks the place where three of these rivers meet - the Peveril, the Caldew and, most importantly, the Eden; a point that is also marked by a striking natural feature, a sandstone bluff

The east side of the street was developed after 1340, but some deeds for the west side date back as far as 1301.

This 19th-century terrace is typical of Lancashire villages in this region backed by long ridges of Pennine hills.

At the back of this picture are the old works, which date from 1791.

The royal connections with this park probably go back further that with other parks, beginning with Edward I (1272-1307), when the area was part of the Manor of Shene; the name was changed to Richmond

They were made by a man named George Cowper, who was backed by the Bromsgrove Guild; once they were satisfied with their work, they dismantled the statues and rebuilt them on top of the Liver Building,

The rebuilding took nearly twenty years, and the craftsmen tried to put only the best and finest materials back into Manchester's chief house of God. 192 new traceried panels were fitted to

After the fort was completed, local fishermen found that they could earn themselves a few pounds by recovering cannon balls fired during gunnery drill and then selling them back to the Army.

Shefford is a small market town with Royal Charters dating back to the 13th century.

Part of it dates back to the 16th century, when it was known as The Fox & Hounds, and incorporates wooden beams taken from the ships of the Spanish Armada.