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The main line belonged to the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway, but there was a locally-owned Carrickfergus Harbour Junction Railway.

St Mary Magdalene's church in the village contains the county's first collection of monumental brasses, commemorating the Cobham family.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

Moving on to the far north-east corner of the county, we reach Misterton.

The first chapter starts, fittingly, with a portrait of the county town, the city of Nottingham, in the 1950s. We start in the heart of the city in Old Market Square.

The redundant building was converted into a county library in 1968. Next door is Barclays Bank of 1879.

In 1967 the building was converted to house the Pembrokeshire County Museum and Records Office. The latter is still housed there today.

, St Leonard's Gate, Penny Street, Church Street and Market Street formed the original layout of the town from 1610, as we can see from Speed's map of Lancashire, which had an inset showing the county's

The building on the right, now demolished, stood on the corner of what is now Vicarage Road, and was the first county library in the town.

Before the Second World War this was regarded as the most remote village in the county, with its cottages and houses straggling along the western side of its long green.

in 1163, but when Lord Rhys took control of most of Ceredigion, he re-established the abbey on a new site, where Cistercian monks spent about 50 years building one of the first stone buildings in the county

On the far left is a rare sight amid the stone in this part of the county: a genuine timber-framed house, this one dated 14th century.

The Crossley family, Halifax carpet manufacturers, contributed £56,000 to build and establish this orphanage for between 200 and 300 youngsters from right across the county.

Milnes rivalled the Denisons of Leeds as the county's biggest cloth exporter, and in 1778 he married the heiress of another prosperous Leeds textile merchant, Hans Buck.

The town's cattle market was one of the largest pig markets in the county between the 1930s and 1970s. In addition to weekly livestock markets, there were spring and autumn sales for store cattle.

In the foreground, the cottages are roofed in attractive pantiles, a common material in this part of the county.

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

Next door, the Capital and Counties Bank moved here in 1882 from the next house (after the gap), which was the Hampshire Banking Co premises from c1849.

Next door, with an advertisement for the 'Dorset County Chronicle', is a traditional single-storey Purbeck cottage which became the Curiosity Shop from 1904 until 1914.

This was an attempt by the borough to keep the county assizes and prevent them going permanently to Reading.

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

Once it was larger, but its 40 acres qualified the pool as the largest sheet of water in the county until the 19th century, hence the saying 'to thatch Groby Pool with pancakes' indicates

Ascend the clock tower of St Nicholas's parish church and see six of the county's major rivers - the Humber, the Don, the Went, the Ouse, the Trent and the Aire.

Still close to the Yorkshire county boundary and south- west of Harworth, Oldcotes village is situated at the crossroads of the A634 and A60; Main Street runs east from the A60 Doncaster Road