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A large broad exposed to the cold east wind, Hickling can appear grey and unfriendly on a bleak day, but on sunny summer days it provides an exhilarating sail.

Built round an internal courtyard, Raby's defences included inner and outer curtain walls surrounded by a broad ditch.

The many prams and push-chairs were a typical sight in Harlow, leading to its nickname 'Pram Town'.

Beyond are Madeira Cottage and the Assembly Rooms (centre right).

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

Wherries carried both passengers and freight all around the rivers and broads of Norfolk.

This view looks across the broad expanse of firm sands to a goods train, which is probably carrying slate on the now-vanished harbour branch of the railway.

Station Road, though quite short in length, still manages to achieve a broad mix of shops and dwelling houses.

These enterprising retailers are taking advantage of a captive market on the Broads.

By the 1960s there has been much rebuilding, but Broad Street is still recognisable.

Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing

Barricane Beach is behind the camera, and we see the broad expanse of Woolacombe sands stretching away south towards Croyde.

The film version, which starred Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed here in the 1980s.

Broad Street was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most memorable streets in England'.

The premises of Mellersh & Son, grocers, can be seen over on the left of this picture.

This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey

Both public house and petrol station prospered with the increasing volume of traffic on a road that the Edwardian topographer Sir Frederick Treves had described as 'a delightful walk'.

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

This charming Devon fishing village lies alongside the broad waters of the Torridge River, which swings left just beyond the point to join the Taw and the open sea.

Norfolk folk were sailing on the winding, slow-flowing rivers and angling and wild fowling on the Broads well before holidaymakers from outside the area discovered its virtues in the late 1870s.

Lord Windsor, Chairman of Barry Docks and Railway Company, gave this road its name.

The ore was shovelled into trucks and hauled by horses to the surface.

This broad thoroughfare, seen here where it leaves the Strand, was constructed in 1875.