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On the stony Stanton Road, Domesday Scepecote (meaning 'shelter for sheep') was home to the powerful Bassett family.

purchased the neighbouring premises of Dingley's, drapers, outfitters, milliners and hosiers, and soon the new building had been redesigned and built as we see it today, set back from the road

In the photograph we are looking towards the quay, further back along the same road we saw in 48336. The name 'Richardson' is on a sunblind over a shop front.

Lowfield Heath is near the old London to Brighton main road. The White Lion Inn, left, also serves teas. The Stores, run by J F Mitchell, has the front door open awaiting customers.

A pavement ran along the front of the stalls, as earlier markets had strayed into the road.

The ferry became redundant when a road was built. The Provision Stores with its old-fashioned vending machine on the corner is now a private house.

Beyond, the trees and walls have made way for a wider road.

This is still Main Road.

Near the entrance to Worksop College, on Sparrow Hill (the old road into Worksop), are the lion gates and one of the many lodges and gateways into the vast 3,000 acre grounds of Welbeck Abbey, built

The villagers left the burnt-out village and moved on to the main road, around the Manor Inn, seen here in our photograph.

Thus protected from the construction of Greyfriars Road Cardiffians believed that the site and its ruin were forever preserved.

This view looks south-west down Loxwood Road towards the parish church, whose spire can just be seen amid the trees behind the last chimney-stack.

The High Street runs from the parish church, with its white-painted weatherboarded tower, to the Guildford road in the distance.

The sculptor Henry Moore, the son of a miner, was born in 1898 at 30 Roundhill Road. Bricks from the house, demolished in 1974, now form a wall around a commemorative garden.

This is the north end of Melford Green with the road to Stanstead to the left.

Following the demolition of the bridge one of these lanterns is said to have been briefly used as a sweet shop on the road to Chester.

Castle Road leads to the Square. The chimney stack in the distance is that of Cookley Iron Works. The Red Lion public house (right) opened after 1830, along with the Eagle and Spur Inn.

How different this quiet little place might have been had the potential been developed from the chalybeate spring, discovered in 1807 where the road leads out of the village to Stow, as inscribed on

This timber-framed Tudor cottage originally occupied a site in Malden Road (now the Broadway) closer to the main crossroads, but it stood in the way of the eventual widening of the street.

Nearby is Angel Yard; Barlow Road broke through here some years later.

The Junior School we see here was built in 1956, facing Cottingham Road, though the entrance is round the corner in Beanfield Avenue.

A travelling mole catcher, Dick Cooper, lived in Gisburn; he covered the Ribble Valley and the Fylde, and walked the turnpike road between Blacko and Gisburn.

The parish dates from 1895, when Longton was a small village straggling along the Liverpool Road.

It moved here to these new buildings on Derby Road (now called Back Lane) in 1859, having outgrown the original premises.