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North-east of the village and north of the A415 Abingdon Road is a large complex of austere Gothic- style buildings. This is now the European School, and not much softened with age.

The Blue Pool at Furzebrook, the best known of Purbeck's former heathland claypits was dug by Watts, Hatherley and Burns of Newton Abbot, in 1846.

When this picture of Pownell Hall was taken, it had been acquired by Henry Boddington, a member of the Manchester brewing family.

The Borrowdale Hotel is in one of the wildest valleys of Lakeland.

The Town Hall dates back to 1826; the building's Greek Doric style makes it one of Andover's most distinguished landmarks.

Looking to the north-east the course of the Western Cleddau can just be seen at the bottom of the picture beyond what would have been part of the Marychurch Foundry.

Much of St Mary's church, behind the mill, was used as a private house after the Dissolution; the ivy-covered remains of part of it can be seen here, attached to the right of the church.

Swallowed up by the suburbs of Market Harborough, this little village has managed to salvage some individuality.

Very few parts of the town are far from the beach.

The ivy-clad inn on the left of the photograph is the Miller of Mansfield, a famous pub in the Thames Valley.

This charming study shows part of the main street of Great Bookham, which grew up on the spring line of the North Downs.

This attractive little village in West Dorset stands at the junction of a number of ancient packhorse trails.

Poorly compacted, and composed of glacial drift, the cliffs of the north Norfolk coast have been compared to 'dirty tallow', being unstable and liable to erosion.

The 6th Duke of Devonshire supervised the design of Edensor (pronounced “Ensor”) in 1839 as a model estate village for his workers at nearby Chatsworth.

Aylesford is a knot of twisting streets, clinging to the side of the valley.

Cleeve Hill is the western edge of the Cotswolds, and at over a thousand feet the highest point. In the far distance are the hills of Wales, the Mendips and Exmoor.

The Romans originally laid out the streets of Wareham to match the four points of the compass. The street names of today, North, South, East and West, match this design.

William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, held the lordship of the manor through the reigns of Richard I, John and Henry III.

Until the 1880s, Dunchurch was of far greater significance than Rugby itself.

The Cathedral's official title is The Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford. It has a unique place in the history of Oxford.

The dredging and reclamation of this part of the river was short lived, and today it has been turned into car parking space.

This photograph gives a good impression of the size of the building.

The photograph is dominated by a brick and stone building typical of its turn-of-the-century date, but in this southern sector of the town earlier houses are to be found, including a stone-faced building

This idyllic picture of the Brixham fishing fleet gives some idea of just how much the fishing industry dominated the town for hundreds of years.