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Pump Cottage (in the middle of our photo) was—as the name suggests—the source of the village's water-supply. It dates from about 1860. The well pre-dated the cottage by a decade.

Raby Mere lies two miles east of the village of Raby, and has always been a popular Wirral destination, especially with Sunday School outings.

The statue we can just see on the left is of the Marquis of Bute ; it has since been relocated to make way for traffic improvements.

Just south of Carlton is the hamlet of Wigthorpe, no more than a few stone houses and cottages on a tranquil lane now by- passed by the Doncaster Road.

The small semi-circular extension on the cottage at the end of Croft Lane is a bread oven.

Sitting on the southern side of Bunbury, the Crewe Arms has now been renamed the Yew Tree at Bunbury.

The corner of Edward Street on the right has altered considerably; the end building was demolished in 1999. The second shop along is Fred Macey's, advertising cycles and prams.

The White Hart Hotel was the venue for the last Stannary Parliament to be held on Dartmoor on 11 December 1786.

At 700ft above sea-level, Tilton-on-the-Hill is one of the highest villages in High Leicestershire.

Here we have a closer view, looking north, of the shopping parade soon after its construction. The forecourt of a National petrol station can be seen beyond the main building.

This uncompromising modern building opened on 10 October 1952, and was soon filled with the post-war baby boom and the children of Woolston's new housing developments.

The Terrace, another Georgian promenade, offers a spectacular panorama of the town.

Occupied since prehistoric times, ownership was returned to the city in 1995 after nearly 70 years of occupation by the RAF.

Despite its increase in size, Burley is still a good centre for exploring the southwestern corner of the New Forest, with lonely woodlands and heaths within easy walking distance.

Bransgore, a few miles from Bournemouth, is a beautiful village of considerable antiquity, just outside the present boundary of the New Forest.

On the left is the Chatsworth Hotel of the 1870s, yet another Eastbourne one named after something to do with the Dukes of Devonshire.

Beyond the hump-backed 15th-century bridge over the River Darent, and the adjoining ford, is a picturesque Tudor house and a line of cottages looking out onto the grassy banks.

Across the sluggish waters of the River Stour, the Bridgegate, usually called the Barbican, was built in 1539 with semi-circular flanking bastions.

Amongst the many hills that can be seen from the summit of Bradnor Hill, Hergest Ridge lies towards the south west.

This is an attractive approach road into the town centre of Sleaford. The grass verge has gone to make way for a cycle path.

Once the cliff paths around Littleham were used by coastguards, who were on constant watch for smuggling activities.

On the left is the sombre but reassuringly secure frontage of the Capital and Counties Bank.

Wilfred Owen, who must rank as one of Britain's finest war poets, was born in Oswestry in 1893. He was later to die in the very last days of the First World War.

The Bear and Billet public house in Lower Bridge Street was built in 1664; until 1867 it was the town house of the earls of Shrewsbury.