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This view of the Rec shows the steam engine hiding the terrace of houses known as Mount Pleasant.

This is a view of the real centre of the village looking up Oakham Lane.

Situated on the edge of the Macclesfield Forest, the Ridgegate Reservoir was one of the first reservoirs built to supply local towns.

This exquisite view shows the tall 14th-century tower of St Peter's Church with a small but richly ornamented spire and very tall pinnacles.

The foundations of the new monastic building are well under way in this photograph.

Behind the wall on the left stood Winchcombe Abbey, which the people of Winchcombe were given the opportunity to buy when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries.

The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

The Shepherd & Dog (right) is a 300-year-old pub at the top of the hill. The petrol station still exists in an expanded form.

The main A177 road south from Shincliffe leads to Coxhoe; it may follow the course of an old Roman road.

Close to the camera is the Art Schools of 1891 by W C Marshall, which is not of particular merit, but the stone medallions of Reynolds and Hogarth added in 1919 are quite fine.

The Beauchamp Chapel was built as directed in the will of Richard Beauchamp, fourteenth Earl of Warwick.

Although old coaching inns like the Fountain would have lost a certain amount of long-distance business with the development of the railways, they were still used as the pick-up and set-down points for

The village street at Bothenhampton (middle distance, left to right), with suburbia beyond, seen from the vicinity of Quarry Farm with an apple orchard and thatched cottages above

The Dene, now a conservation area, is a fascinating place where sarsens appear to grow out of the ground.

The west door of the church, a fine example of Norman work, was removed from the earlier building and incorporated into Bishop Grandisson's extension.

The coming of the Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway, which opened in 1857, led to the building of the promenade alongside it at Grange.

The lights have been hung ready for the summer illuminations.The pier was always a spectacular sight at this time of year.

The building to the right of this image is the Bull, known as the Bull's Head in the 17th century.

Moving north, deeper into the Vale of Taunton Deane, we reach the cob or earth wall country, where whitewashed rendered cottages with thatched roofs become common.

At the end of the Parade, behind the trees on the right, stands the Castle, the home of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

Rooks Nest was the home of Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-78), leader of the Gothic revival in architecture, a style that befitted small country churches as well as major metropolitan landmarks.

The tree cover at the front is quite dense now, so much so that little of the building is visible from the road.

The village hugs the huge limestone hillside, once the site of much lead mining and smelt mills.

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place.