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When this picture was taken in the Victorian era, Cowley was a large village gradually being swallowed up by the suburbs of Oxford.

This view of Tideswell is from the pinnacled Perpendicular tower of the parish church.

The restored medieval Butter Cross, or High Cross, marks the site of a market. The town crier has long stood on this spot in order to communicate important news to the people of Winchester.

Much of the architecture of this country town is Georgian, though there are a few older buildings.

Oswaldtwistle Moor, to the south of the town, is a love- ly unspoilt area of outstanding beauty. 'The 'twist', or meeting of rivers, where Oswald lives' is how the town gets its name.

Two local landowners, the Earl of Crewe (of Fryston Hall) and John Davison Bland (of Kippax Park) donated the area, which was laid out to offer recreation and splendid views over the township

The effect of the new bridge on housing nearby can be seen in this photograph.

On the front of the building is an old sundial, and on the side a carving of Benjamin Skutt, who was Mayor of Poole in 1727.

Perched above Llangollen, this ancient fortification, whose name translates roughly as 'castle of the fort of the crow', dates from the Iron Age; medieval fortifications were added later, possibly

Nikolaus Pevsner describes Welsh Row as 'the best street in Nantwich', and the variety of buildings we can see in this photograph goes a long way to explaining why.

A fair number of old cottages still line the earliest village streets around the church, but elsewhere any surviving cottage tends to be islanded in a sea of modernity.

Earlier residents of Shillingstone had taken part in the Clubmen's Rebellion, an attempt by local people to keep the warring factions of the English Civil War out of the area.

The sculptures represent the common sacrifice and suffering of the nation. They are the work of Mr F W Sargant, the sculptor brother of a former headmaster.

The basket of a grocery delivery cycle is prominent on the extreme left.

We are looking at Parliament Square from an upstairs window on the corner of Parliament Street abd Bridge Street during the First World War.

An evocative view of old Corringham, down on the flat land close to the Thames and now a close neighbour to the estates of Thurrock and the Thames-side oil storage depots.

The original house on Holme Island was built by John Fitchett of Warrington in 1832.

Here we see the terminus of the Swansea to Mumbles railway. The pier was essential for the recreation of Edwardian visitors to this part of the seaside.

The unusual name comes from the ship of Captain Philip Broke of Nacton, whose estate extended into Bucklesham.

Christchurch is one of the oldest settlements around the New Forest. It was probably in existence even before the Romans settled in the shelter of Hengistbury Head after 43 AD.

The stone-mullioned windows and sturdy, stone-built construction mark the Bay Horse Inn in the tiny North Yorkshire village of Gayles, north of Richmond, as a building of some antiquity.

Many Pennine woollen towns had strong Liberal leanings, and prominent in this photograph of Kirkburton, near Huddersfield, is the tall four-storey building of the Liberal Club, a centre of local community

The broad expanse of the Promenade stretching east to Sandgate is still as popular with visitors today as it was with the Victorian and Edwardian holidaymakers who visited this Cinque Port, and whose continued

There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.