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But it did not escape the 'Poets' Corner' craze for street-naming of the late 19th century. At least Penrith's Wordsworth Street, had a genuine claim to the local poet.

Although the pub may be gone, the building on the corner of the road has become a chandler's and boat yard for recreational sailors.

One of the notices on display outside the corner grocery store in Crown Square reads: 'Don't go home without our pixie pasties - 1s 8d a box'.

Genge's & Austin's department store (left), now closed, gave its name to 'Genge's Corner'.

At the south-eastern corner of Worcestershire stands Cropthorne, a pretty village just off the Evesham to Pershore road.

So frantic has the traffic become, that the second thatched cottage was hit by a lorry twice in one year, losing the corner wall and its thatch.

The post office stores have moved around the corner and the letter box has gone.

In the north-east corner of Dartmoor, in open country, is one of the finest stone rings, Scorhill. It once consisted of 36 stones erected without any shaping.

Nicholson, the haberdasher and milliner on the corner, has an impressive new frontage constructed in 1900.

In the days when this was an abbey church, the ornate door on the right, the abbot's door, was part of the monks' processional route from the choir to the cloisters, which were located in the corner of

Though Dr Boddington was most famous for his work with TB patients, he also cared for mentally ill patients at Driffold House Asylum at the corner of Wyndley Lane and The Driffold.

On the corner by the wall is a Midland bus timetable; across the road is Blisworth Post Office, with its huge advert for Players Navy Mixture.

The Norman keep with its four corner turrets, similar to that at Rochester, was built between 1164 and 1170.

Its 'Gothick' design is conspicuous in a particularly beautiful corner of Devon, alongside the river Taw.

Its fine Perpendicular spire is unusual, in that the corner walling of the belfry is sloped off.

On the opposite corner from the Yorkshire Bank was Redman's the grocer's (centre right), beloved by local housewives for their selection and good value.

It takes its name from a carved king's head on the corner, the sign of the King's Head Inn. It is reputed to be a likeness of King John, who hunted in nearby Mendip forest.

The village lies in the north-east corner of Hampshire, in an area of the county now strewn with busy roads and saturated with housing developments.

They continued the rebuilding of the Priory church and the monastery, probably at about the same time Baldwin built the constable's hall, next to the Mill Stream at the northeast corner of the bailey

Visible just behind Drake's Statue is the corner of the bowling green. The terrace behind is also gone; the Register Office now stands on the site.

Notice the particularly fine, cast-iron gas lamp on the corner just outside the grounds of St Faith's private school.

This town, known to its inhabitants as 'Mach', is situated at the far north west corner of Powys, so far that it is also in the Snowdonia National Park and 10 miles from the sea.

hundred years ago, convicts departed from here en route to Australia, while for many naval officers this famous gateway represented one of their last views of England before setting off to some distant corner

In fact the title is incorrect, for he was imprisoned in "The Oven", a cramped cell next to the great staircase and near the well in the diagonally opposite corner of the keep.