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A decade earlier the Isle of Wight had known the hostile use of air-power, being one of the first areas to be bombed during the Battle of Britain.

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

Between the new cemetery in the centre and the allotments and houses to the right, the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny railway line, opened in 1862, begins its climb of 1000ft to Brynmawr,

Preston also had a covered market, so this busy scene could be the yearly Pot Market, which took place in the square for eight days.

However, it is not the architecture that attracts visitors here, it is the magnificent series of monuments to the Roos family of the 15th century and above all to eight Earls of Rutland, ranging from

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.