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Easneye, originally called Isneye, was the home of the Buxton family after 1866, when Thomas Fowell Buxton purchased the estate - it comprised thick woodland.

In 1839, during a period of industrial depression and political unrest, it was the scene of a riot which lasted for five days until troops restored order.

Next to an 18th century house of some interest, the post office, along with the pub, was the focal point of village life.

To its left and out of view are the late 1880s gables of the Bedford Rowing Club.

A year after a fire razed most of Bungay to the ground in 1688, the Butter Cross was built to commemorate it.

Upper Beeding is in effect a suburb of Bramber. It is mostly nondescript, apart from its parish church at the north end, overlooking the river.

Opened in 1928, it replaced a previous Fortune of War (now a printer's on the Billericay road), which had itself been founded, supposedly, by a soldier returning from the Napoleonic Wars.

Lancaster's beautiful canal, with its magnificent sea views of Morecambe Bay, was originally the vision of the factory owners of the locality, who were eager to connect their mills with the national canal

This attractive boat house is set at the foot of a steep cliff alongside the River Taf with its 'heron-priested' shore. The poet Dylan Thomas lived here for the last four years of his life.

In early times, it is believed to have been the home of the Grammar School. Later the Town Library, belonging to the Corporation - formed in the 17th and 18th centuries - was housed here.

Exmouth is Devon's oldest seaside resort, and this was reflected in the construction of several early and very prominent hotels.

We are on the Downs, just north of Seaford.The church of St Peter has a fine Norman fonty. Admiral Walker, who fought with Nelson, is buried here.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary

Dunsfold, north-west of Alfold, has a very large rectangular green, and the parish church of about 1270 is half a mile to the west.

This view captures well the design ethos of the period.

North-east of Guildford and now by-passed by the A3, Ripley has a long wide High Street and was full of coaching inns in earlier days.

Built by Edward I, Conwy Castle glowers at the head of this street scene as it dominates the town.

The gardens and cottages of this rural set piece of thatch and village green today are neat and tidy.

The church of St Margaret has Norman walling and windows. Hawksfold was the home of Anthony Salvin, an eminent architect.

Horbury lies at the heart of the West Yorkshire heavy woollen district. It was the birthplace of the architect John Carr, who started his training in his father's quarry.

The Church 1961 Heading back towards Highbridge and the end of this seaside tour, we head for East Brent on the north-east side of Brent Knoll; this is an Upper Lias limestone outlier rising steeply

These gaunt 19th-century ruins stand on top of the motte built in the late 11th century by Robert of Tosny on land granted to him by William the Conqueror.

As one of the town's major employers, Kodak gave £10,000 for a new children's playground to be built in Gadebridge Park to replace the one lost by the construction of the Plough roundabout.

Glasgow also took a lead in other aspects of communications.