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As an approach to Junction 1 of the M53 motorway, Leasowe Road (A551) is now dual carriageway for much of its length.

Former 'quarr houses' and stone workings (bottom left) can be seen here beside Durlston Bay (lower right) which revealed fossils of the first marsupial-type mammals that succeeded the dinosaurs.

The symmetry of the ploughman's furrows consign the hills of Bryn Arw and the Sugar Loaf to a background role.

In June 2001, The Wiltshire Times described it as 'one of the town's hidden treasures'.

The Tudor Café, seen on the left, was a popular attraction with a great many of Newbury's citizens as well as large numbers of visitors to the town.

In between the dramatic hills of Great and Little Whernside, Coverham lies in a hollow 2 miles west of Middleham.

Like the nearby village of Alvecote, Polesworth was once a mining area.

Following the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1500s, this became the parish church for the town.

The parish church of St Nicholas, like many of Wirral's fine buildings, is constructed from local red sandstone.

The parish church of St John the Baptist overlooks the water meadows of the Ouse; the sunsets from here on a winter's evening are wonderful.

By the end of the Great War the town had lost many of its young men—they had marched away past the Steamer Hotel along Dock Street to the railway station.

Many Fylde inns were named 'Horns', presumably harking back to the days when herds of deer roamed here. Some inns of that name sported splendid antlers as inn signs, as at Goosnargh.

This 16th-century building with an 18th-century façade was built after 1564 on the site of St Mary's Guildhall. Aubrey Thomas Wicks traded from London House.

Here is the 11th-century church of All Saints built by the Flemish architect Gilbert de Gant (d1094), a nephew of William the Conqueror.

This fine example of Norman architecture was in a derelict state, and the church of Holy Trinity in New Road, consecrated in June 1855, took over as the place of regular worship.

In the years following the end of the second world war, John Harker Ltd built several estuarine tankers on the foreshore at Sharpness. One of them might be in the background of this picture.

The inn and the post office (and general stores) were at the heart of most villages until very recent times.

The coat of arms of Watton is a hare and a barrel: they can be seen above the clock and again on the weather vane. ('Wat' is a dialect word for a hare, and 'tun' a word for a barrel.)

The 66 ton Logan Rock was forcibly dislodged in 1824 by a Lt Goldsmith and the crew of the Revenue Cutter 'Nimble'.

This view of a corner of the village's rectangular green shows the Fountaine Inn on the left, named after Linton's most famous son, Richard Fountaine, who became an alderman of the City of London in the

The church of St Andrew and the rear of the buildings in St Mary's Street sit on the spur of land surrounded by the River Avon which attracted the Saxon settlers.

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

Here we see the white-washed walls of the Willington Hotel. Willington is today overshadowed by the massive cooling towers of the huge power station to the east of the village.

This is an old village, but there are plenty of older habitations nearby: this part of Dorset boasts an impressive collection of earthworks, burial barrows, ancient ridge paths and strip lynchets.