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The town lies just inside the Dartmoor National Park alongside the main Exeter to Plymouth road. Once stage coaches thundered through, forcing bystanders onto the narrow pavements.

The view is still recognizable nearly a century later, although the houses on the left became a car park after a slum clearance programme in the early 1960s.

The view from this side of the river includes the industrial gasworks, but further down river past the weir is the rather more pleasant Myrtle Park, which opened to the public in 1908.

Evans gave way to Boots, and Cousins ceased trading some years ago, after relocating to Park Street. St Georges Road is to the left, opposite Obelisk Street.

The curtain wall, shown in this photograph, is all that remains of Strickland's castle, which is now a public park.

The old deer park at Chatsworth contains some of the oldest oak trees still living in Britain.

If we drive through the village, before long we reach the entrance to the Royal Victoria Country Park, formerly the site of the old Netley Hospital.

Some of the trees remain, while there is new housing, Saffrons Park and Court, behind the left hand flint walls, which also survive.

Stoke Park Wood lies to the east of Bishopstoke.

Boar Lane bissects Briggate and runs along the southern edge of the commercial heart of the city between Kirkgate and Park Row.

Swans have long been a feature of the park, including appearances, as here in the Thirties and also after the Second World War, of a black swan.

A parked motor bike and sidecar is the only traffic.

In this picture the 15th- century spire of St Nicholas's church overlooks the park, which incorporates the tree-lined drive to the former vicarage, demolished in 1970.

During the reign of Henry V (1413-22), several pools were constructed, probably for the Earl of Warwick, in what was later to become Sutton Park.

This is one of the classic views of the Lake District; it is now used by the modern National Park Authority as its logo.

In the mid 19th century, many middle-class residents of central Leeds began to move out to the north of the city near to the country estates of Beckett's Park and Hollin Hall, and Headingley became a rather

To the front of the view is the lifeboat house and boat park. The lifeboat was once crewed by women when the men of the crew were caught in a squall.

This is one of Exmouth's two bowling greens - the other is at the back of the town at Phear Park. The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.

This monastic cell of St Mary’s Abbey in York, of which the chancel remains, is now in a municipal park and is surrounded by a bowling green and fenced football pitch.

This photograph was taken from St James's Park, and shows the Foreign Office building when it still also housed both the Commonwealth Office and the Home Office.

Excavation work was further hindered by floods arising from hillside springs on land east of the park.

This photograph shows Lordens Hill on a somewhat gloomy day.There are few cars parked along the street, but in those days private car ownership amid working families was still something of a novelty.The

Samuel Turner spent £2,300 on laying out and planting the grounds of Mount Falinge as a public park, which opened on 5 August 1905 amid great celebrations.

The site now houses a business park and a retail centre, but Brooklands Museum tells the story of its historic past.