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Once the port for Canterbury, Fordwich was a town when Domesday was compiled. Now it is now just an attractive riverside village.

Little has changed since picture No 33024 was taken, save for the building of a lifeboat station. St Mary's was rebuilt in the 1830s, replacing the church built by Bishop Thomas Wilson in 1701.

The church of St Mary saw many changes in the late 1800s. Walls were rebuilt in the early 1880s, and in the late 1880s work was done in the chancel.

Taken from outside St Mary of the Angels, the village's Catholic church, this view looks along The Nook past 17th- and early 18th-century houses.

The church building in the distance is St Mary's, whose north wall still carries scars said to be of a lesser civil war skirmish fought here.

This view of the square shows how it had been broken up, so to speak, and had lost the impression of openness.

It was to Port St Mary that the Scottish granite to be used in the construction of Chicken Rock Lighthouse was brought, and where each stone was cut and dressed to size before being taken out to the site

St Mary's Church dates from the 15th century, though much of the present building is a reconstruction by John James, after the original church fell down in 1713.

Bottesford is tucked away in the far north-eastern corner of Leicestershire, in the middle of the magnificent Vale of Belvoir. The spire of St Mary's Church is the tallest in Leicestershire.

The Priory Church of St Mary and St Michael was never elevated to abbey status. The tower has a unique formation: the upper part is built crosswise to the lower.

It was built by the powerful cutlers, who were active in the town in the 14th and 15th centuries. The magnificent church of St John the Baptist, St Mary and St Lawrence has a 181ft spire.

The big tree in St Mary's churchyard has gone, and the wall has been rebuilt further back from the pavement.

As large as a cathedral and one of only two parish churches in England to have stone vaulting, St Mary's was built on a grand scale, thanks to the generosity of Bristol merchants.

The village has long been famous for Basing House, a ruined building reduced to rubble by Cromwell and his army during the Civil War.

Having survived the great fire of 1583, St Mary's Church is the oldest building in the town.

Near the River Ouse, situated in what is now the Museum Gardens, this building was the guest house for St Mary's Abbey.The ground floor was built in the early 14th century, while the timber-framed

The church in the distance is that of St Mary, built in 1833. In the centre is the Mounts Bay Hotel (right) and the Queen's Hotel (left, with turret).

The parish church of St Mary dates from about 1141, though much restoration work was carried out during the Victorian era.

Cartmel has been described as a cathedral city in miniature.

Looking down Market Street towards St Mary's with the spire of St Martin's just visible beyond.

At this time Port St Mary was still being described as a 'pleasant little fishing port and seaside resort'. The local fishing fleet was, however, in decline.

Just visible on the right of the picture is Andover's 19th-century church of St Mary, built in the Early English style by a former headmaster of Winchester College and described as the best

Lying two hundred yards south-west of St Mary's the chapel is a small church built by Earl Odda and dedicated to the Holy Trinity in April 1056.

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