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It was built by the same family who built the church, the school, Wookey Hole Club and many houses for their employees. The previous mill had been built by 1656.

planning row broke out over plans by Richmond College, the local tertiary college (which is actually in Twickenham) to fund expansion plans by selling off part of their site in Crane Valley for housing

Although known nowadays as Bolton Abbey, the religious house that was established here was actually a priory.

John Robinson Kay, born in Burnley in July 1805, died at Walmersley House in March 1872.

The much-expanded village rests on an ancient site - the remains of a Roman house were found here, and the church has Saxon foundations.

The imposing terrace of five tall houses, with a tile-hung mansard roof at three levels, had been built around 1885 by E S Prior, and the heaps of stone on the other side of the harbour may

The white cottage on the right of the High Street is now the premises of an estate agent, and the ivy which covers the house on the left has gone.

By 1902, the Mount pavilion had replaced the octagonal summer house designed by Burton and run by Esau Carter Monk, a Fleetwood commissioner.

The fine half-timbered corner premises that in the 1950s housed Fawkes Stores is now a clothes shop.

The new housing built for the workers can be seen rising up the hill like a tide.

The largest house in Ewell, opposite the old churchyard, this castellated building was built by Henry Kitchen between 1810 and 1814 to replace an earlier castle which stood here in the reign of King Charles

New housing estates have sprung up around the village in recent decades, but they do not seem to have driven out Littledean's famous pair of ghosts, Royalist soldiers killed in a scuffle with

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

Pevsner rightly refers to the house (extreme left) as the finest of its date in the county, designed by William Smith of Warwick in 1697 for Sir Roger Cave.

This building was originally built by the Great Western Railway as a lodging house for single men in 1846, and was called the Barracks.

Opposite the police station is the Alexandra public house, and to its left the Castle and Royal Oak hotels, both registered in the 1770 rate book.

Prestatyn can claim a history that is tangible from Roman times with its own Roman bath house.

This illustrious and sublime town is on the east bank of the River Ouse, two miles from the Wash.

The town is renowned for the number and quality of its historic houses, and is blessed with an ancient abbey, founded by William d'Albini in 1107.

The drive of the former Harris family home, which was built c1870, gave access to the Harris Welfare Association Woodlands Club House, which was established in the former woollen mill to the

It was at a house in Westgate in February 1555 that Bishop John Hooper spent his last night before being burnt at the stake in St Mary's Square.

When he built Ayot House, Sir Leonard Lyde found that the old church had blocked his view, and began to demolish it without permission from the bishop.

This was built around 1905 on the site of the London and South West Bank, which in turn had replaced a Tudor farm house.

Here is a pauper asylum of gigantic proportions, built to house 1,000 patients and designed by S W Daukes in 1851.