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At the bottom end of Fore Street, on the right, is another Elizabethan building: the old Grammar School of 1583, with its tall porch bay, now part of Chard School.

It is said that the first rumblings of the Luddite Movement were felt in Anstey with the breaking of the knitting frames; the village had expanded rapidly to accommodate an influx of workers.

An incredibly low ebb- tide, which would also have coincided with one of the highest tides of the century, has exposed the rock pools on Lucy's Ledge.

On the other side of the church lie the marshes of the Blyth estuary, which is why this magnificent church is known as the Queen of the Marshes.

This view of Great Gable is unusual, as it is taken from the north. The usual view of the shapeliest mountains in the Lake District is from the head of Wasdale, where it dominates the scene.

The 236ft single span cast-iron bridge was designed by Thomas Paine, author of 'The Rights of Man'. Built in 1793-96, it was considered one of the engineering masterpieces of the day.

The town clusters around the stronghold, clinging to the steep slopes in a series of steeply inclined roads. Harlech Castle is the very image of a mediaeval stronghold.

On the top of the hill are the remains of Oldbury Castle (an Iron Age fort) and the striking Lansdowne Monument erected in 1845 to the memory of an ancestor of a local landowner.

By building a new castle at Carlisle, William Rufus was cutting what was left of ancient Cumbria in two.

Fortunately this period was also to see the devel- opment of an interest in industrial archaeology, and efforts were made to save not only the bridge but other sites of interest locally.

He was the mighty Fish Lizard, or Icthyosaurus. Whatever caused his death can only be guessed at. But his corpse was eventually covered and compressed by mud and sand.

Two of Oxford's most famous colleges, Trinity and Balliol, stand on the left side of Broad Street, famous for its bookshops, among which is Blackwell's.

William Julian Courtauld, of Pennypot in Halstead, gave this fountain to the town of Braintree in memory of King George V.

The steeply-sloping cobbled Market Place in the centre of Wirksworth was the centrepiece of the restoration of this former lead mining town, which won a Casa Nostra award in the 1980s.

Here we see one of the unsung heroes of the Fleet.

The trees soften the box-like lines of the church, and the well-filled graveyard contains many monuments to the people of Accrington.

A quiet lane on the fringes of the town. Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages.

The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial

Charminster stands across the valley of the River Frome from Dorchester. It has grown considerably since this picture was taken.

Bovington is the home of the popular tank museum, where a great many tanks and armoured military vehicles can be seen.

We are on the peaceful, reed-fringed shores of Rydal Water, near Grasmere. Rydal was the home of William Wordsworth from 1813 until his death in 1850, and this was one of his favourite lakes.

Edward Gibbon, the historian who wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', lived at the Manor House as a child.

A Backyard 1903 The everyday drudgery of turn of the century life, before modern household appliances eased the burden, is displayed in this portrait of three elderly ladies in this Hitchin backyard

The great chasm of Blackgang Chine was an early tourist attraction on the Isle of Wight, with its dramatic waterfall and eroded colourful cliffs.