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The new A1 by-pass means that this village has become a quiet backwater, but signs of modern development can nowadays be seen - a housing estate has replaced the brick wall on the left.

Cracoe is a small hamlet of mainly 17th- and 18th-century houses on the minor road between Skipton and Grassington.

Solid Georgian houses group around the crossroads in the middle of Fremington, just outside Reeth in Swaledale.

The sloping Church Street leads up to the tower of the parish church, past The White Swan public house on the right.

The earlier manor house belonged to the Brent family, who are commemorated in the church.

The house dates from the reign of Elizabeth I, but was largely rebuilt following a major fire which undermined the structure in 1886.

This scheme caused dismay beyond the confines of the town, in a row reminiscent of the one in 2005 over plans to knock down Victorian housing in Liverpool and replace it with modern housing stock

The town hall is a considerable ornament to the town, and the market-house is a commodious and well constructed building'.

Here the brickwork of the houses has been used for a very decorative effect. Notice the already well-established monkey puzzle tree. These originally came from Chile.

Looking north-westwards from Lower Yonderover Farm, with hay-bales in Mill House paddock (foreground) and the sign for the Star Inn (centre), the River Brit skirts the edge of the

This entrance lodge to the house and gardens was private until the area was opened to the public for the first time in 1908.

Judge Jeffreys lodged in this Dorchester house in the aftermath of the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685; he sentenced some 300 rebels to death, though many were transported instead.

The chapel here dates back to the late 1700s, and it stands on the site of an old Dissenters' meeting house.

Its castle, one of four block- houses built by Henry VIII, was garri- soned until Victorian times, such was the prolonged fear of invasion from across the channel.

Both locomotives are now housed in the Darlington Railway Centre & Museum, North Road Station.

The 16th-century half-timbered Manor House in Vyne Road fronts directly onto the road, so that its striking architecture, including carved bargeboards on the gables, can be studied at close quarters.

Middle Wallop is a village of at least twenty-six houses with a garage, a pub and an army airfield.

This public house stands beside the main London to Eastbourne road. It was built in 1936, and is a popular stopping place for day-trippers to the Downs and the coastal resorts.

A magnificent oak tree dominates the common land and the pleasant nearby houses of this little hamlet on the southern outskirts of Rickmansworth, where, on land to the south-west, the famous Croxley

Both houses in this photograph survive. On the left is Shore Lodge, and on the right is Evening Hill Grange.

The huts have now been replaced by some of the world's most expensive houses.

Sir John Everett Millais painted his famous 'The Boyhood of Sir Walter Raleigh' while living at a house called The Octagon here in the late 1860s.

The village was laid out from 1790 by mill owner Samuel Greg to house his mill workers, and was one of a number built in east Cheshire by industrialists.

Derwent Terrace, now the A6, runs alongside the river, faced by shops and with other houses spreading up the steep hillside.