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To the right is Church House, which shortly before this view was taken had ceased to be a farmhouse; the flint walls in front are remnants of its barns, retained as boundary walls.

To the right is the Gun Garden, where prize firings of cannon were held every year by the Cinque Ports Volunteer Artillery in the 1860s during the French invasion scares of that decade.

St Mary's Church is on rising ground west of the town, with Lowndes Park to its north and east and The Bury to its west. The large cruciform church dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries.

Off the north side of the High Street, the buildings are encroachments on the market place; Bletchingley had been a borough by the 13th century.

We are upstream of the bridges. Nag's Head Island is in the centre with its hotel fronting the bridge, and Stevens's Boatyard are the white buildings to the left.

Originally quarried by the Hayward family and later rented to the Webber family, Dancing Ledge was owned by schoolmaster Thomas Pellatt of Durnford Preparatory School.

A lot has happened in the space of just ten years since No H252584 (above) was taken.

That Meryl Streep moment, as it became after 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' had been filmed here in 1980, with the Outer Breakwater of the Cobb awash in a bursting south-westerly wave.

Both horse and cart and motor car are parked outside Wealden Hall House; at the time of the photograph it was trading as the Post Office, and advertising itself as selling 'Drapery, Outfitting, Grocery

This shows a dramatic change from earlier photographs of the Square, largely due to the spread of the internal combustion engine.

Many artefacts have been since found within the site of the fort. Archaeological surveys were held in 1919-1922 and again in the early sixties.

This was the entertainment centre of the town. Around Ward's End were many cinemas and theatres. The Electric Theatre opened as early as 1910, the Coliseum (now a dance hall) some ten years later.

Among the monuments on the north side of the chancel is a Purbeck marble tomb with canopy and three hanging arches on twisted columns marked by an 18in brass on the short tomb chest.

The Town Hall and the Market Hall are on the right. Known as Over Darwen, this was a quarrying and agricultural area before turning to calico printing, weaving and paper making.

The land here on the corner of Paul's Lane and Sandy Lane was purchased for nine pounds in 1870.

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

Here we see landslipped Langmoor Gardens (left) before the building of retaining walls and amusement arcades.

As a youth the latter was discovered by Lord Lowther sketching its beauties, a chance encounter which won him the support of the Earl who cultivated links with men of arts and letters.

On the apocryphal 'clear day' it is possible to see the Malvern Hills, Bromsgrove, the Lickey Hills, Frankley Beeches, Clent, Abberley and the Clee Hills.

We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called. Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

Romantically named for the sea breaking across its rocks, Dancing Ledge is a mile south of Langton Matravers village.

The late owner, Captain George Pitt-Rivers of Hinton St Mary, left instructions for it to be sold in small lots so that individual tenants could acquire their homes.

This end of the church is in three parts, as we can tell by the three apex roofs.