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The little town of Corfe is older than its castle; it is the Corvergate of the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'.

The driver of the 658 Leicester to Coventry Midland Red bus service breaks his journey to await passengers in this familiar view of the centre.

The ancient town of Totnes was once second only to Exeter as a prosperous merchants' town, but declined in importance in the 19th century.

This street, in one of the largest of the Holderness coastal villages, used to be called Poskett Lane.

It is only forty years after the first ground was turned, and the scale of development is breathtaking.

Little remains of the 13th-century Hailes Abbey except the ruins of the cloisters.

Now a suburb of Wellington, the village was once known as Rowe Green, but often dubbed 'Rogue Green' because of the unruly behaviour of some of its inhabitants.

This monument was erected in 1928 at the site of Monmouth's defeat at the hands of the Royalist army in memory of all those killed during the battle or who subsequently suffered imprisonment, transportation

Situated two miles south-south-west of Bridgend, Ogmore was originally a ringwork with a timber palisade built in 1116 by William de Londres to guard crossing points on the rivers Ewenny and Ogmore.

This street scene is much altered from that of the 1906 photograph.

This attractive close-studded timbered house of the mid 15th century provides a fine, almost secret entrance to Castle Yard.

Perhaps this view was taken on a Sunday - notice that the entrances to all the shops on the left have gates closed across them.

In September 1927 the Ministry of Health published a report agreeing to the building of a 300-bed hospital at Sully for the treatment of TB.

Just up river from the bridge and the castle, this would appear to be a view from Wintour`s Leap of the beginning of the great Horseshoe Bend which encompasses the peninsula of Lancaut.

This is another excellent view of the harbour. There are many children who have presumably been drawn to the permanent excitement of a busy port.

Among its many memorials is an effigy of William Leigh, shown vested in the robe of a Knight of St Gregory and holding in his hands a model of the church he founded.

At the height of the coaching era, Maidenhead was littered with posting inns either side of the High Street. Some of these hotels continued to thrive during the age of the motor car.

Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.

In 1887 the Board of Governors of the newly reconstituted Guisborough Grammar School commissioned Alfred Waterhouse, an eminent Victorian architect, most famous for designing the Natural History Museum

Having completed the tour of Daventry town centre, we now look at some of the 20th-century housing and industrial development.

Fishing and agriculture played an important part in the economy of the area, but it was the opening up of the Western Highlands to tourism that gave the town the boost it so desperately needed.

This is the best preserved part of the medieval cathedral.

Begun in 1225 and completed in 1472, York Minster is considered to be one of the finest cathedrals in all England.

Here we see one of Formby's older properties, a fine example of the type of cottage that was once common to this part of the coast.