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To the right are Groves County Clothing and Outfitting Store and the shop of P B Whittingham.

The county boasted three of the highest bridges on the British railway network (rails above ground or high water level): Deepdale at 161 ft, Hownes Gill at 150 ft, and the Hawthorn at 110.5 ft.

Enamel signs for Brooke Bond Tea on the village shop, a hostelry called the Bee and a small cottage displaying signs for the Aberconwy Institute 1915 and Llyfrgell y Sir or County Library suggest localised

It remains a gracious building in a county of exquisite architecture.

The Capital and Counties Bank on the right of the photograph bears the date of 1834 which, however, refers to the founding of the bank rather than the date of the building which occurred

Chilton Foliat is at the eastern extremity of the county, on the river Kennet. Here, a horse waits patiently outside the thatched pub for the return of his driver.

Despite an increase in tourism, Dorset remains an agricultural county. Dairy cattle still crop the meadows around the village of Alderholt, and are still taken in for milking much as we see here.

The lonely car on the left carries local registration marks , -RA being allocated to Derbyshire County Council.

The war memorial, surmounted by the stag, which is the county symbol, stands at the junction of St Andrews Street and Fore Street.

There was once a Shirwell Hundred - that ancient administrative division of English counties that was supposed to contain a hundred families or freemen.

Still travelling northward in 'the county of rivers', we see the River Wye lazily winding its way into the old spa town.

A scene that was once familiar in many villages up and down the country. Notice the petrol pump on the right.

On the right, the street still awaits the out-of-scale London and Counties bank, erected in 1892.

Two miles south of Bulbarrow, one of Dorset's highest summits, Hilton and neighbouring Milton Abbas share some of the most beautiful countryside in the county.

Boscombe spent much of its history in Hampshire, until bureaucracy reassigned it to the County of Dorset in the 1970s.

All this was caused by the worst floods the county had known, when a tidal surge broke through the sea defences.

So many towns and villages in Worcestershire are beautifully set on the banks of the county's rivers - as Wyre Piddle is on the Avon.

The county jail was then relocated and the new Town Hall was built incorporating some of the cells. These cells now house the museum within the Town Hall.

The house was built as a war memorial for the city and county, and provided 130 rooms. Following the closure of the hospital, the building has been converted into luxury apartments.

This shows the County Offices of 1928, built in Neo-Georgian style in brick with stone dressings. These now face 'Fred's Folly', the concrete 1960s tower block.

The North East Counties Convalescent Home for miners and other such workers would only recently have opened at this time, as only Phase One has been built; photograph No 47052 shows the

One Tree Hill and Westley Heights were together designated Langdon Hills Country Park in 1973.

Some time after the end of the Second World War, it became a boys' boarding school run by Essex County Council. Today, it houses the Hockerill Anglo-European School.

The swords on the county coat of arms are seaxes, the short swords or sword knives used by the Saxons, which may in fact have been straight rather than curved. The cutting edges face upwards.