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The 16th-century Guildhall was built on the site of the priory refectory.

Travelling from Dittisham to any location that was not on the river was a headache in the days before the car.

The building on the right with the granite arch is now A R Church, an ironmonger's, but was once the Mermaid Inn and played host to the Parliamentarian General Fairfax during the Civil War.

At the top centre of this view is No.1 the Square, the oldest building in the town.

This photograph was taken twelve years before the start of the castle's restoration by Lord Astor; at this time, its associations were solely with the romantic attachment of Henry VIII and

Here, children play with their toy yachts in the dedicated Children's Corner at Ventnor. In the background promenaders walk past a prominent establishment offering hot and cold sea-water baths.

The pillared National Gallery in Trafalgar Square opened in 1838 - the former Royal Mews site had been earmarked long before the idea of a memorial square had emerged.

This lovely little town was granted its Charter in the 13th century.

It was commissioned from James Forsyth by the Earl of Dudley, and was displayed at the Paris Exhibition in 1867 before being installed in its present position.

Sutton has one great asset which makes it a cut above other Birmingham suburbs - Sutton Park, which was given to the town by Henry VIII at the behest of local benefactor Bishop John Vesey.

At this date Southport had the longest pier in the country.

The village is at the north end of a magnificent two-mile long sandy beach. Until the 1800s this stretch of coast was remote, its splendours familiar only to Ilfracombe fishermen.

This thatched cottage with its distinctive pargetting (moulded plaster decoration) was home to one of East Dereham's more infamous sons, Bishop Bonner, the Rector of nearby St Nicholas's Church in the

Here we see Norwich Castle rising above the bustle of the sheep market.

In the 1460s, William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, set about remodelling Raglan in the contemporary French style as a Yorkist fortress during the Wars of the Roses. The tower keep had its own moat.

At Crewkhorne one passes under the Runnycleaves by a dark tunnel that casts a shade of serious resolve upon the would-be bather, and on the hottest day inspires a shiver premonitory of the coming plunge

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

It looks quiet here now, but once the market at Leominster was so successful that the cities of Hereford and Worcester were jealous of its success.

To the left, an artist sits at an easel and paints Lulworth Cove, while his wife shades herself with a parasol. By the end of the 19th century, the cove was already attracting a great many visitors.

Though restored in 1855, the church at Tolpuddle is nine centuries old. In the north transept is a memorial carved in Purbeck stone to a 12th century priest called Phillip.

The second highest part of Bodmin Moor is Rough Tor, at 1,311 feet.

The Prison Govenors House, now the home of the excellent Town Museum, built in 1779 at the same time as the first prison, was biult within the castle precinct.

The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who

At the bottom of the street on the left, hidden in this view behind the Methodist Chapel, is the famous Blue Anchor Inn.