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In his 'A Shropshire Lad', the poet A E Housman opens with the words: 'From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain . . .'

The 'Twa Brigs of Ayr' became famous thanks to a poem by Robert Burns. Things had changed by the time this photograph was taken.

It has no direct Scandinavian connection, other than the fact that the name comes from the Norse 'svithinn' and means 'land cleared by burning'.

Originally known as North Sunderland, Seahouses prospered on fishing, and for a while lime burning.

At the time Rottingdean was home to a remarkable group of people, including Rudyard Kipling and Edward Burne-Jones.

The woodwork was so diseased that it had be burned, and all that remains is, apparently, a single hall.

The quarter boys above the church clock date from 1761, while the tea rooms (now Simon the Pieman, established in 1920 after this view was taken) replaced the Red Lion Inn which burned down in 1872.

This lighthouse, which is on the highest point of the island (180 ft above sea level), was built in 1829 as a gas-burning light and has been automated since 1927.

Carrying Holburn Street over the Ferryhill Burn, South Bridge is an essential part of the great developments of the early 19th century. It gets no recognition from the bureaucracy.

In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.

Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.

Inside is a wonderful window by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones that dates to the 1870s.

Burnt Farmhouse is isolated; it incorporates the remains of Field Place, which burned down in 1765. The tower of Litlington church can be seen in the distance.

Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.

When the English vessels failed to appear, French troops landed on the Island, burning and looting, and were resisted only by the Islanders who inflicted heavy casualties on the invaders.

The Custom House dates from 1791 but was burned down in 1921 during the troubled years that led to the creation of the Irish Free State.

In 1882 England played Australia in a cricket match; they lost so disastrously that they then ceremoniously burned the bails used during the match.

When the English vessels failed to appear, French troops landed on the island, burning and looting, and were resisted only by the islanders who inflicted heavy casualties on the invaders.

This one was built by the Chichester family in the 18th century; it burned Welsh limestone, which was held to be superior to the Devon limestone.

It burned down in 1928.

The statue is of Burns's Highland Mary, who was born at Auchnamore Farm nearby. The statue was erected in 1896.

Among those to imbibe have been Johnson and Boswell in 1773, Robert Burns, Queen Victoria and Edward VII.

This could have come from pyres on which bodies were placed, or perhaps from burning autumn stubble.

In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.