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The village becomes busy in the summer with visitors seeking Crantock Beach, which is a short distance away.

Until near the middle of the 20th century, there was plenty of choice for a short sea trip in a rowing boat, a sailing boat, a motor boat or even a speed boat.

The white building close to the beach is the Rashleigh Arms; just to the right is a short slipway up to the old lifeboat house, which was used until 1922 but is now converted to a café and shop.

All Saints' Church is an interesting one, with Anglo-Saxon 'long and short work' quoins to the nave and an Anglo-Saxon tower with an elaborate Norman west doorway and arcading.

This is another of the Lincolnshire churches that has Anglo-Saxon long and short stone work in the tower.

This village must qualify for having had one of the most short-lived halts in railway history.

Shortly afterwards the bandstand was removed to this spot from its position on the promenade. It was refurbished and re- opened in July 1990.

Judging by the crowd gathering on the beach, it looks as though a seaside concert party will shortly be giving a performance.

The pebble and sandy beach provides views along the coast to Worthing pier; just a short distance inland are the grassy slopes of Highdown Hill, which has long been a popular recreational

More interesting are the three windows to the left of this poster; these belonged to Mr Short, a local photographer, whose photographs adorned these windows in neat rows.

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.

After the dissolution came a short period of disuse before Sir Walter Mildmay restored parts of the friary for use as a college.

Lead mining brought much short-lived prosperity to this part of Swaledale, but the village quickly returned to its rural existence.

The shops which lined the steep road down to the pier were demolished shortly after for being 'unhygienic and ugly'.They sold all manner of seaside items from postcards, buckets and spades, paddling

A short distance away behind the church, to the right, we can see the ornate window and gable end of the Methodist church (now the village hall).

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

This is one of several short parades of shops along the main road through Penn. Built in the early to mid 20th century, it remains largely unchanged today.

Its column was cast at Stourbridge Ironworks (just a short walk away, by the canal) in 1857.

For a short time in the middle of the 19th century, copper was mined in Dry Cove above Tilberthwaite.

Village lanes and woodlands can be discovered and explored within a short distance from many moorings on the river Waveney, which separates Norfolk from Suffolk.

The first Knott End ferry began as a family business shortly after work on Fleetwood started, but in 1894, was taken over by the municipal council.

Maynscroft restaurant and café and the adjoining William's cycle shop (right) closed shortly after 1955 and became dwellings. The Queen's Head closed in c1990 and is now a restaurant.

This was demolished to widen the road shortly after the photo was taken.

The church of St James, with its broach spire and Anglo-Saxon long and short stone work in the nave, was newly seated and restored in 1854-55.