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Oakley was within the medieval royal hunting forest of Bernwood - the king's hunting lodge cum palace was at Brill nearby. The name of the village means 'a clearing in the oak woods'.

Most of Tetbury's town centre buildings have stood there since Queen Elizabeth I's time. The Market House is one of the finest in Gloucestershire, and dates from 1655.

In the era of the stage coach, the George Hotel was classed as the best hotel on the Great North Road, and it is still one of the best in the area.

Bristol developed to become a major centre for the importation of timber for use throughout the west of England.

The ancient settlement of Greatham lies halfway between Wolviston and Hartlepool. The large building on the right, at the entrance to the village, has always been known as Sappers Corner.

To the right are the trees of Thompson Park — it was fortunately among them that Burnley's only Second World War bomb fell.

With the introduction of the one-way system, traffic now travels only out of town through the arch. Next to the Arch is the Baker's Arms Hotel, another 18th-century building.

The Argyll Hotel continues to attract guests, and the scene today is much as is shown here, except for the fashions and the absence of horses.

The church spire in the distance is that of St Peter's; it was built between 1860 and 1868, during the pastorate of Canon Calderbank.

Also known as Perch Rock and the Battery, the Fort was, and still is, a very large landmark on the New Brighton shore.

This view of the square shows little change in the thirteen years interim after photograph No F145003, though the ivy creeper has gone from the dwelling on the far right.

Ely Cathedral, which can be seen from up to twenty miles away on a clear day, is one of the most stirring sights in Fenland. This photograph shows the sharp rise from river level to the cathedral.

Here we see the beginnings of a familiar retail pattern: multinationals are taking over the high street. On the left is Home & Colonial, which by this date had several hundred branches.

Set in the midst of a region of rich and picturesque farms, it developed into an important market centre for the agricultural community.

By 1860 it was the principal town of Wales, and the iron-making capital of the world. The vehicle on the right-hand side is a dark blue Merthyr Tydfil Corporation ambulance.

A loop from the Coltishall to Wroxham road can take you down to the delightful small village of Belaugh.

Old documents relating to Whitby refer to the western part of the town as Ruswarp, though the village itself lies about a mile from the town.

The afternoon tea dances held here were very popular, and visitors could dance in the flower-filled pavilion below its clusters of hanging baskets.

This pair of windmills stand on Outwood Common: a post mill with four double-shuttered spring sails and a roundhouse protecting the trestle, and also a tall weatherboarded smock mill.

This delightful rambling village acquired its name from the Saxon king Ehta, or Otha's settlement. But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.

Immediately south-east of Lingfield lies the race course, founded in 1890, and beyond that is the next station on the railway line, Dormans.

East of Redhill, on the A25, Nutfield is still heavy with traffic, despite the M25 by- passing it to the north.

The village sits high above the flood plain of the Medway. This peaceful scene shows the 14th-century five-arched ragstone bridge, which is considered by some to be the finest in the south-east.

The gardens for the Prospect Hotel (rebuilt in 1870) on the corner used to extend down to the road and over the site of the memorial.