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A small village at the western edge of St Leonards Forest, on the main road and railway line between Horsham and Crawley. Local legends say that dragons and serpents inhabited the forest.

We are on the Downs between Brighton and Lewes. Near the rebuilt church there is a thatched barn and an early dewpond.

The railway was built as part of the Cambrian railway, with two stations, Barmouth and Barmouth Junction. Northwards the line went to Harlech and Afonwen, where it joined the L & NWR.

The parish church of All Saints hides its history well. At first glance, the architecture is 19th century and confirms the rebuilding during 1860.

But the course of young love went smoothly; there was a wedding at St Martin's in 1856, with an epic reception at the grandstand afterwards, and Isabella became Mrs Beeton.

As there were two separate corporations running their parts of the ferry system, you could tell the corporation the boats belonged to by the funnel colours.

Here we can see the red brick church of Flemish design, and beyond it the attractive black and white timbered Priests House.

Unlike Hawes and Askrigg, Leyburn never became industrialised, but it did become a fashionable place to retire to, doubling its population during the early years of Victoria's reign.

Unlike Hawes and Askrigg, Leyburn never became industrialised, but it did become a fashionable place to retire to, doubling its population during the early years of Victoria's reign.

A very few years after this photograph was taken, the popular Newnham Pool was closed and its place in the leisure activity role taken by a modern facility dedicated to the philanthropy of the Robinson

We are looking upstream, towards the Abberley Hills in the distance, with the tower and spire of the otherwise demolished St Andrew's Church prominent on the right.

This gothic pile on Great Ducie Street was opened on 26 July 1864, when Manchester held its first Assize Session here.

What a scene this is, with bathers in the water, and gentlemen sitting on benches putting the world to rights. Tourists are ordering tickets for the twice-nightly end-of-the-pier show.

The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder's offices, dates from around the same time.

S R Lovatt, on the right, had originally specialised in cheese and in other provisions such as bacon and butter, but as its window display indicates it sold general groceries as well.

Sir Edwin Maufe's dignified and apt cathedral was only completed in 1966, with much of the work dating from the period spanned by this book.

Both photographs show the view looking east towards the Town Hall; apart from the cobbled street, the main difference is the loss of the Lion Hotel (left) itself a merger in 1866 of the King's Head Inn

Everything from the left of the view as far right as the brick building with the dormer was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the deadly Bury Street shopping precinct, which opened in

Grindleton is a classic case of village development: here ancient roads cross, and ribbon building took place along those roads.

The most notable is the building of the Ritz Cinema next to the Empire, and the street certainly is a lot busier than in the earlier view.

This was taken not long after the restoration of the interior of the church by the Reverend Bell.

This is a typical scene of the early 1900s: when word got out that a photographer was in the area, passers-by stopped and posed for the picture, just like today when TV crews and cameras come into town

Timber is being loaded onto barges, or lighters, to be towed up to Gloucester, where vast wood yards were sited along the canal.

Looking East from Wood Street An inn has stood on this site for 400 years.