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A canal from Biggleswade to Shefford was built in 1822 and gave the town the status of an inland port, with qa navigable waterway to King's Lynn.

The High Street, fashioned in the 1930s, drops down to the original village centre, with the graveyard to St Martins church on the immediate right.

Although Church Street has had much rebuilding in recent years it still retains its character and is one of the best streets in the old town.

Richard Tempest, lord of the manor, was probably advised by King Henry VI about this beautiful church in Perpendicular style when he was sheltering the royal visitor in 1500.

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

The initials TH and LHH which appear over the tower door and on the family pew stand for Thomas Hibbert and his sister Letitia Hamilton Hibbert, of Birtles Hall.

We are actually inside the port area here; again we see the mixture of coasters, fishing vessels, yachts and pleasure craft.

This view is of Pirbright Lock, No 15; we are looking past the lock keeper's cottage (then a café, now a private house) to the girder bridge across the canal.

The hall, parts of which date from 1550, has been re-built and added to over the years.

The quiet High Street, populated only by a Ford 105E Anglia, a Wolseley Hornet, a Ford Consul, and (peeping out of the corner on the left) a Fordson tractor, is a far cry from the days when Swavesey

The photograph shows Abbey Row; we are looking down towards the Triangle and the parish of Westport.

In 1898 the house immediately to the right of the church was Bury Farm, with its farmyard of thatched buildings and a great tile-roofed barn.

WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.

Our tour starts south of the River Ouse in the area developed by King Edward the Elder in AD919; it was defended by the King's Ditch, some of which still remains after all these centuries.

While nothing remains of the medieval church, the leafy old graveyard has become something of a wildlife refuge.

Founded by the Saxons, Sandwich was once a Cinque Port at the mouth of the River Stour, but owing to silting it is now two miles from the sea.

Place Farm 1904 Further east, the photographer looks eastward along Charlwood Lane, with the lane towards Ifield on the right.

The Stowmarket Co-op on the left has been rebuilt. On the corner is Fidler's, menswear, taken over by Tydeman's in 1997.

The thatched 17th-century King's Head pub still stands on the left, and the re-fronted Red Lion Hotel is still in the centre of the Bull Ring.

This impressive flight of sixteen locks, regarded as the finest in Britain, is also known as 'the Staircase'. This photograph was taken from Marsh Lane in Rowde.

We are now in the centre of Eastleigh; in fact, we are looking from the station along Leigh Road, originally a farm track but steadily improved and extended as the town grew.

The integrity of the Rollright stones, which stand near the A34 in Oxfordshire, cannot be verified.

This prompted them to obtain permission from the Pope to build a new cathedral a few miles away, now the site of the famous Salisbury cathedral.

We are on the navigable and tidal River Arun. The church of St John the Evangelist has a shingled broach spire; flint and stone are used for walling and buildings.