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As we look at the church from Broadway, we get a closer view of how large it is.

This was the chantry chapel of St Thomas Becket, licensed 18 March 1377 in the reign of Edward III. It was in use as a grammar school from about 1566 to 1853, and since became ruinous.

The abbey was founded by Benedict of Auxerre, who was instructed in a vision to go to Selebaie in England. Armed with one of the fingers from St Germain, Benedict set off.

Kneller Hall, the famous home of military music, was originally built by the artist Kneller in the early 1700s. Little remains of that house.

FOR MUCH of its existence Teddington has been regarded as a quiet town between the busier Richmond, Twickenham and Kingston centres on the River Thames.

Wimborne Street c1955 Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’, where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious ‘Flower-de-Luce

The longest canal tunnel in Scotland is on the Union Canal. It was built because the Forbes family did not want Callendar House to look onto a canal. The tunnel is 630 metres long.

It was thanks to the generosity of cotton manufacturer William Atkinson that Southport got a Free Library and Art Gallery; he paid for both of them.

This aerial shot shows the whole of the northern part of the town. In the distance is Birnbeck Pier with the steamer jetty to the north, and the lifeboat slipway on the south.

Much of the county is still largely agricultural. Along the rivers and the shoreline, there are still miles of sparsely-inhabited wilderness.

Churchgate Street lay on the main route from London to Newmarket, Cambridge, Norwich and the North.

Aynho, on the Oxfordshire border south of Banbury, is a beautiful ironstone village dominated by its great mansion, Aynho Park House.

A majestic yew tree marks the approach to St Lawrence's, which has a west tower of flint and stone blocks topped with early brick.

It was planned that around St George's Hall there would be unbuilt areas so as to show off the Hall, the grandest of the civic buildings.

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.

Morris & Ebson constructed this gaudy building, of red brick and Bath stone, between 1849-51, in the style of Henry VII, whose mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond, founded the seminary

This classic view of the castle contrasts the delicacy of the chapel, with its triple Gothic windows and pinnacled octagonal towers, with the somewhat more robust Windsor-like tower to its left.

‘They [the fairs] were frequented by the younger members of the town. Early in the afternoon of Easter Monday, the road was thronged with groups making their way to the Punchbowl Fair’.

The detailing is borrowed from the eight blank panels in the Medici chapel in Florence; on these panels are carved the names of the town's dead of the First World War.

Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.

To the south of the village lies some of the most spectacular downland in Sussex - a popular haunt of walkers and outdoor enthusiasts.

Like many abbeys and monasteries up and down the country, this former Cistercian monastery was dissolved in the reign of Henry VIII.

The splendid Norman tower of the Cathedral rises above the roofs of the county town, forming an important part of the city’s skyline.

The council paid £139,000 for the park in 1872, it being one of a number of acquisitions by the authority over the previous 20 years.