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Copthorne was a new parish, formed in 1881 out of Worth and Crawley Down.The church of St John Evangelist was built in 1877 and is just in Sussex.The picture shows local shops with a proliferation

Fortune's Well, the main street (centre right), leads to the tower of the church of St John the Baptist and gives its name to Fortuneswell village.

Inland from Bridlington is the village of Carnaby, with its 13th-century church of St John the Baptist.

Covering 350 acres, Penshurst Park has many fine oaks; a chancel screen in St John the Baptistís church is made of Penshurst oak.

The Norman church of St John the Baptist stands in the north of Leeds.

We are at the foot of the Downs by the route of the London to Brighton main line railway.

This discreet little settlement in the parish of Stanton St Gabriel occupies a web of small lanes on the south-facing slopes of Hardown Hill and derives its name from three Old English words: 'mor' (

Here is a village at ease with itself, in the heart of stone country.

From 1563 until 1870 the Grammar School, or Roysses School, had occupied buildings east of St Johns Hospital and the abbey gateway.

gave them the lordship of the manor of Hallgarth and a large collection of property, but also the right to collect tolls belonging to the manor, and the right (previously held by the Order of St John

Woodmansterne Station, situated in Coulsdon, did not arrive until 1932 and, although some distance from the old village, it was an impor- tant factor in the development of new roads off Rectory

gave them the lordship of the manor of Hallgarth and a large collection of property, but also the right to collect tolls belonging to the manor, and the right (previously held by the Order of St John

In 1948, St John's Hospital for the aged and infirm came on site.

This is St Mary's Parish Church, seen from the north-west, showing the two bays of the nave and aisles extended in 1860 (right).

Off Moat Road is the former St Margaret's Anglican Convent.

In contrast to the picturesque qualities of St Andrews Old Church to its south, the late arrival has a not surprisingly metropolitan arrogance, as it was moved stone by stone from Well Street, close to

Beyond Victoria Square the town expanded along Gateford Road and Carlton Road towards the railway station, which opened in 1850; it is stone-built in a Jacobean style.

It is a curious contrast of building styles, ranging from the fine thatched stone house dated 1609 in the distance to the mundane brick of John Manners Ltd, now an engineering supplies store.

This lovely building is at the southern end of the High Street, in the former market place where the High Street meets Worcester Road and St John's Street.

The church of St John Evangelist was built in 1877 and is just in Sussex.

The church of St John the Baptist was built in 1898.

It is faced in hard, local Mountsorrel granite, with alterations and the addition of a north aisle by William Parsons in 1842 (see St Mary's, Bitteswell).

The church of St Margaret's has a neatly clipped yew tunnel at the churchyard entrance.

East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (left), was built by J and T Gale in 1784 and has been widened.