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At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.

This splendid view from Thurstaston Hill looks over the village, with the spire of St Bartholomew's church projecting above the trees and roof tops.

In 1388, in true Border style, the second Earl of Douglas raided the Earl of Northumberland's territory to the south as a diversionary attack durng a major incursion by the Scots.

Syston, a Domesday village situated about four miles north of Leicester, was industrialised by an influx of framework knitters in the 19th century, which generated standardised red brick buildings

Its name is rather apt, as the village is just a couple of miles south of Wakehurst, an extensive estate under the care of the National Trust, and also the outpost of the Royal Botanical Gardens

At the end of Church Lane to the west of All Saints' Church the base of a medieval cross survives with its new shaft and head of the 1920s.

Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity

At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.

The tower and spire of St Mary's Church rises above the rich assortment of architectural styles, which range from the 15th to the 20th centuries, with several of the buildings having recently been

This perfect little town, the capital of the Kentish Weald, was formerly a centre of cloth weaving.

The ancient town of Rye was built on a sandstone rock at the confluence of the Tillington and Rother rivers.

The 15th-century Perpendicular west tower of the Church of the Holy Cross is remarkable for the three sculptures of heraldic lions, which crouch at the corners of the battlements.

A splendid panoramic view, taken early in the year, of the Stour Valley looking across to the Julliberrie Downs, with the 14th-century tower of Chartham church rising above the trees.

Looking South This photograph shows the wide carriageway of Cricklade Road leading to Stratton Crossroads, with the junction of Beechcroft Road to the left and Whitworth Road to the right.

His carriage has stopped near the summit of one of the most famous of the Lake District passes. It connects Troutbeck with Patterdale.

Described in 1890 as a 'handsome modern thoroughfare', Corporation Street was the result of a massive redevelopment of 93 acres of slums.

This view, taken from an upper floor window of the execrable Empire Hotel, looks beyond the Parade Gardens, laid out in the 1880s, to North Parade, a long 'palace front' of twenty-five bays with a central

The statue of Joseph Pease stands guard over the entrance to Northgate.

This view was photographed from the tower of the Westgate.

An overview of Ludham from the tower of St Catherine's Church shows the well-wooded, rich agricultural land surrounding the village before many of the hedges had been removed.

In a road of rather mundane buildings is the Palace Theatre, a remarkable building designed in a Moorish style by the Robert Adam of theatre design, Frank Matcham, for Moss Empires in 1901, with a seating

During the summer months there is a good service of steamboats between this interesting watering-place and London. Shakespeare's Cliff commands a broad view of the shores of France.

In the distance, the graceful Portland stone spire of St Mary le Bow soars sublimely over the City. It was the most expensive of Wren's refurbishments, costing £15,400.

In 1838 there was a grat conflagration which began in the rooms of Lloyd's coffee-house. Thousands of tons of masonry fell and the old Royal Exhange was destroyed.