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Looking beyond the medieval parish church the building on the hill behind is the Georgian rectory built in the 1730s by the Rev Benjamin Robertshaw, overlooking the town and away from its bustle

We are looking towards Stair Hole, where the downlands of Dorset meet the sea, is hollowed out by vast caverns, many used by smugglers for centuries.The South West Way Coastal Footpath, once an old

To the left are the arched and mullioned windows of the 1661 Almshouses; partly hidden is Ashlar House, which is mid 18th- century and set at the corner of Pound Lane, which leads to the moated Manor

Turton Tower lies four miles south of Darwen, and four miles north-east of Bolton.The villages of Turton and Turton Bottoms are next to the Tower.Turton Tower is basically two buildings, a pele

The Market Place was renamed the Bull Ring in 1910, to recall the 'sport' of bull baiting a century before.

The public telephone has been identified by Michael Thomas as a K1 Mark 236 box of 1927, of which about 4,500 were erected, with a roof sign dating from 1929.

The public telephone has been identified by Michael Thomas as a K1 Mark 236 box of 1927, of which about 4,500 were erected, with a roof sign dating from 1929.

The two gables on the left are part of a 15th-century house called The Chantry. The rest of the structure is Salters Hall, the highest quality timber-framed building in Sudbury.

This 7-foot-tall inscribed stone is shown here on the B3269 road - it was moved here from Castle Dore, but has since been moved nearer the town. It is reputed to be of the 6th century.

Separated from the old town of Warrington by the Mersey and also (since the 1890s) by the Manchester Ship Canal, with Thelwall we are now back in that part of the county that was always Cheshire.

Some things never change: in a rather dull street of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings, on a Midland Red bus route, the Council is digging up the pavement!

The 'longest and fairest' bridge in Cornwall crosses the upper part of the Camel estuary, seen here at high tide.

The high windows on the ground floor light the entrance hall, which has a carved wooden frieze depicting crocuses of several kinds.

On the north side of St Paul's Square is the old corn exchange, an uncompromising Victorian building whose foundation stone was laid in October 1872.

In the same way as many other river ports, it lost trade when its waterways could no longer cope with the increasing draughts of cargo ships.

The Grand Opera House opened in 1904 at a cost of £38,000, but struggled and was taken over by John Imeson in 1909.

The grand frontage of Sir James Thornhill's 18th-century mansion, built in Portland stone and with its gigantic Corinthian portico, situated on a hill overlooking spacious parkland.

At the crossroads of Market Place and Potter's Street stands the neo-classical Corn Exchange, designed by Lewis Vulliamy, whose original frontage had a grand entrance dominated by a statue of the harvest

By 1900, Paisley was a smoky industrial town with a population of 80,000.

Lewes, the medieval guardian of the gap through the South Downs cut by the River Ouse, occupies a fine hilltop site which produces a superb townscape.

These cottages at Newhaven, Fife, are an example of the type of fishermen's dwelling that could be found around harbours from Scotland to at least Cullercoats in Northumbria, usually single-storey terraces

This picture, on the banks of the River Towy, was obviously taken in the fishing season, where coracles were used for their convenience.

At one time, flocks of sheep and herds of cattle congregated at Tregaron ready for the long walk to England. However, the town continued to serve as a market place for livestock for many years.

Originally a narrow street of shops, houses and workshops, the redevelopment and widening of Market Street took place between 1822 and 1834 at a cost in excess of £250,000.