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This view from the centre of Rowsley has the Peacock Hotel, its famous landmark, on the right.

Alfington is a tiny village alongside the river Otter, north of Ottery St Mary.

Immediately beyond is a swing bridge.The 15-acre Drayton Manor park and zoo is close by; the village of Drayton Bassett is to the southwest.

building of 1789; it was so badly damaged by fire in 1908 that it had to be demolished.

A church has stood here since Saxon times, and its fine Norman interior has somehow survived the worst excesses of the Victorian restorers.

It was built for the Catholic 15th Duke of Norfolk between 1884 and 1910.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, when these houses were built, the streets echoed to the hum of cloth looms.

It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.

Rectory Road was extensively redeveloped in the 1970s, and many of its small shops were closed.

This view of the Buckden mills is taken from the River Ouse beside some pollarded willows; it shows the walkway beside the road that was used when the river was in flood.

Apart from a sign of the times - the bank building on the left has given way to an amusement arcade - little has physically changed.

This important naval anchorage was protected at this time by the rapid-fire guns of the Nothe Fort, seen here on the clifftop.

Perhaps not on a par with the great Suffolk wool churches, Great St Mary's, overlooking the Market Place, is none the less an impressive piece of Perpendicular architecture.

The Admiralty stipulated that it must be at least 100 feet above the water to allow the passage of ships.

Barges towing rafts of sawn timber head past the Archbishop's Palace and All Saints' Church. Formerly, a ferry crossed the Medway at this point.

Another potential library site was released by the closure of the Ramsden Street Chapel in 1933, which was bought by the council and demolished in 1936 along with the adjacent late-1830s 'Guild

Perhaps not on a par with the great Suffolk wool churches, Great St Mary's, overlooking the Market Place, is none the less an impressive piece of Perpendicular architecture.

Two other famous residents of East Budleigh were two smuggling parsons - Matthew Mundy and Ambrose Stapleton.

There are excellent walks in the vicinity, not only along the coastal footpath but also across the wilds of Woodbury Common.

By 1086 the Soar Valley was well settled, and although the Domesday village of Barhou offers little to delight the visitor, the river has a watery magnetism which draws families from Leicester to its banks

During the late 17th century, Greenock's herring trade with France and the Baltic required a fleet of more than 300 boats. The town motto was 'Let herring swim that trade maintain'.

We associate this exotic and scarce fruit with jollity and celebration, but this trader and her son radiate only a sense of misery and poverty.

This gabled thatched cottage is very typical of the area. Thatch was used before tile and slate. This cottage might be a local store, as the bottom sign is advertising Typhoo Tea.

In September 1909 the 7623yds long Rivelin Tunnel was completed at a cost of £150,000.