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A half century after the era of Dickens there are still several places where the traveller can take refreshment: Webb's is advertising teas, next door is a tea garden, and beyond that yet another sign

The spacious northern end of the High Street, with its central water garden and carefully tended flowerbeds, marks the area where the market hall stood until 1853.

Here we see landslipped Langmoor Gardens (left) before the building of retaining walls and amusement arcades.

Beyond are Langmoor Gardens and the Bay Private Hotel on Marine Parade. The wooded skyline above the town extends from Rhode Barton and Thistle Hill to Penn Hill and Timber Hill.

local limestone, with sash windows and an impressive multi-entranced facade, it had twenty bedrooms, central heating, private lock- up garages, a private lounge, a croquet lawn and a rose garden

An attractive garden borders the river in front of the Swan Hotel. Since 1965 an extension to the hotel has replaced the low building beside the thatched house.

Valley Gardens was a favourite place for a mild constitutional after taking the waters.

The grounds around it were transformed into fantastic gardens with temples, pleasure walks, lakes with islands and fountains, a maze, a grotto, groves and lawns.

The entrance door remains in situ, but the stone mullion and transom windows have gone in favour of unattractive modern replacements; strangely, the bell-cote now resides in the garden of School House

In 1919, amid the pain and sadness after the First World War, the peo- ple of Clitheroe raised £15,000 to buy the Castle and its grounds, and a Garden of Remembrance was laid out.

On the left are the Floral Tea Gardens followed by the Pear Tree Inn, later Samuel Banger's potted shrimp paste factory.

This shows the heart of the Victorian holiday town, with the required esplanade and gardens for strolling.

When Hunsdon won the Hertfordshire Best Kept Village competition in 1960, the winner's sign was erected in the garden of the house next door.

He built the adjacent office in part of his garden (the white porch on the right).

Unaltered pairs of such houses do exist, but most have received the treatment meted out at the hands of the double-glazing salesman and the need to park that extra car in the front garden.

Recently, extensive excavations in the garden revealed pottery and ceramics dating back to late Saxon times.

This is a central and popular spot for shoppers and office workers to sit and relax in the well-laid-out formal gardens.

The grass area in the foreground of the photograph is now the Garden of Remembrance.

Another tea-room in South Street was French's Tea Gardens, which adjoined the Stone Roof Café. The buildings have changed little over the last century.

Another tea-room in South Street was French's Tea Gardens, which adjoined the Stone Roof Café. The buildings have changed little over the last century.

The National Westminster Bank (extreme right) is next door to a seed merchant, still an important trader in a country town before seeds were brightly packaged and sold by garden centres.

The gardens were laid out to a design by Gertrude Jekyll.

The first and second floors provided a manager's residence for many years, which enjoyed a walled garden to the rear.

Box Hill School has become one of the dominant features of the village; it was erected by Edward Gardener in 1870, and was then named Dalewood.