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Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing rights

We enter at a place by London Road, say on a summer's morning ...

St Peter's Street is still as broad today as then, but it would be a brave cyclist who rode down its centre now.

Punch and Judy hold the attention of the formally-dressed crowd of holidaymakers in the South Bay.

The village stands under the downs near the source of the Len and has a broad, attractive market square fringed with lime trees, which create a shadowed path over the uneven setts and cobbles.

The stone jetty that we can see in the background was the main terminal for ships to Ireland and the Isle of Man, until Heysham Harbour was cut in the 1900s.

As a result it gained royal cachet, and the Prince's emblem of feathers sprang from the parapet above the name of landlord Robert Lutke.

This photograph shows Churchgate and Belgrave Gate viewed from Gallowtree Gate - 'gate' is derived from the Scandinavian, meaning 'a road to'.

Both the hillside and village are named after the Devon-born churchman who brought Christianity to Germany. The original Saxon church may have been founded by the saint before he went abroad.

From the end of the pier Ramsgate looks very well indeed.

A lock linked the river and Nottingham Canal at the projection near the end of the walkway.

This is a spectacular view from the top of Portland, with the expanse of the Chesil Bank on the left, stretching 16 miles along the Dorset coast to Barton Cliff, and the broad expanse of Portland Harbour

From Tirril, midway between Penrith and Ullswater, a road leads to Sockbridge. This was the home of Wordsworth's grandfather Richard, and his father John.

Over the last 200 years or so, erosion has only managed to claim two rows of houses and a road.

After the war, Brighton and other Sussex towns were still popular for holidays, but in the 1960s package tours took the tourists abroad.

The Horse and Groom together with the next two buildings made way for a road; the Queens Head inn now occupies a corner of the new road - Queen Street.

Wash Road was a road of many farms: Watch-House, Mundell's, Petchey's, Benson's, Puckle's, Sellers, and Laindonponds.

Few traffic controls are in evidence at the southern end of the shopping area in about 1960.

Chantries were added to the original structure by the 14th Baron Greystoke, who built the first Greystoke Castle.These had painted oak screens, which were removed during the Reformation, giving the nave a broader

Initially the village developed along a road constructed on a causeway across the marshes between the castle and a possible wharf near Bramber Bridge.

We can almost feel the peace and tranquillity typified by a road deserted apart from a solitary horse-drawn delivery cart, standing near an attractive row of brick-built thatched cottages.

The former toll house was demolished as part of a road-widening scheme, and access to and from West Street was blocked to traffic in the interest of safety.

The bronze head on the statue was designed and cast by the sculptor Fred Mancini.

On the right can be seen the public house the Ham Tap, and also Mr Elson's greengrocer shop. Outside is his delivery bicycle.