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On parade days, the adjutant rides his horse up the steps and through the main doors, followed by the cadets who have completed their passing-out parade.

If we follow the signs, we come to the National Rifle Association Offices and Ranges, known the world over.

If we follow the signs, we come to the National Rifle Association Offices and Ranges, known the world over.

Aspatria's unusual-sounding name means 'the place of St Patrick's ash', a reference to the early Celtic Christians who followed the Irish saint.

This followed the Epping Forest Act of 1878 which stopped pollarding, but grazing rights were continued.

In private hands, it was leased be Charles Gray as the county jail in 1734, closing in 1835 following years of complaint about its revolting conditions.

Many literary pilgrims follow in Tess's fictional footsteps to this day.

The elegant Abbey Crescent was built in 1858 in anticipation of the opening of the nearby railway station the following year.

Brunel, showing considerable foresight, did not cut Dawlish off from the sea when he built his railway, but incorporated its walls into a splendid promenade which can be followed all the way to Dawlish

It was at Catterick in AD 625 that Paulinus, first Bishop of York, baptised converts to Christianity, following the marriage of King Edwin of Northumbria to Ethelburga of Kent.

A great deal of building took place during the years that followed; the population increased three-fold during Queen Victoria's reign.

Looe fishermen have followed the pilchard shoals for generations. The town was an important medieval port, and copper-ore and granite were once exported from its quay.

The pier at St Anne's opened in 1885, with extensions following in 1904. These included a new pierhead entrance, and a handsome Moorish pavilion which held 1000 people.

Following a bequest by a local surgeon in 1828, the Infirmary was built in Tudor-Gothic style on the historic Greyfriars site.

Glasson was first used as a port for ships unable to navigate the Lune to Lancaster from 1787, but the arrival of the canal in 1826, followed by the railway in 1883, increased its effectiveness.

Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed by the locomotive

Boats have been available for hire in Broadland since at least the 1880s, and motor launches first became available in the years following the First World War.

All of this coastline can be walked by following the South West Coast Path, ancient routes originally taken by the coastguards who patrolled the lonely coast.

This elegant Elizabethan mansion was originally built for the Secretary of the Council of the North in 1568.The hall changed hands many times over the following centuries before being almost rebuilt

Housing development followed the railway, but the station closed in 1965.

Travelling aboard the 'Mayflower', the emi- grants had to put into Dartmouth and Plymouth following problems with the ship.

The new ground floor shopfront of Plumpton's is on the left, followed by three shop signs on Oliver's, Burdon's and Thurlow Champness.

In 1999 Weobley was named the 'National Village of the Year' and, in order to celebrate both this and the Millennium that followed, a sculpture was erected in the garden area in the foreground of this

Bedford Street is another road that disappeared from the map following the blitz.