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Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540.

This photograph, taken from the east bank of the river, south of the Barley Mow pub, manages to exclude George Gilbert Scott's rather fine 1864 seven-arched brick bridge over the river.

As we look back towards Cookham from near the viewpoint of photograph No 77588 towards the bridge onto Odney, since rebuilt, the Thames is beyond the trees with its two channels.

This view is looking back towards the High Street. The Southern Daily Echo (now the Southern Evening Echo) still exists, but not its Salisbury office.

The Chesterfield Canal begins at the distant hump-backed bridge beyond a moored motor cruiser. The 'Trent Valley Way' long-distance footpath stretches from here to beyond Nottingham.

Here we see a quiet moment on the banks of the Wharfe.

The old core of the village, clustered around St Martin's Parish Church, and backed by Belle Isle and Claiffe Heights, is being admired by three elegantly dressed ladies.

They were set back from the road, and the existing pavement and shops gave way to a pull-in for about a dozen cars; several of the mature trees were also felled.

The scene of Falstaff's miseries in Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', Datchet stands on the Thames bank, opposite Home Park.

The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich.

They lay on their backs and pushed with their feet against the tunnel roof.

On the right is the Albany Hotel and the Yorkshire Penny Bank. Sheffield was just one of a handful of authorities at this date who still had faith in their tramway system.

The old hump-backed bridge carried the main road from Cardiff to Swansea over the River Thaw, which at this point is merely a stream meandering to the sea at Cardiff Bay.

Over the years the foliage and the soil on both sides has been cut back to keep the problem of earth slippage under control.

Again looking back towards the church, this picture gives a good idea of the size of the Square, with the Market Hall on the left. Note the Dolphin Hotel on the left, and the Bugle Inn opposite.

The building withthe 'To Let' sign on the right was later replaced bu the Lutyens-designed Midland Bank headquarters.

Behind is the London to Bristol main line railway, and on top of the tree-clad river cliff bank is the Oxford Road.

Replacing much smaller and increasingly inadequate local facilities dating back to the 1830s, the requisite funds came in from across the social spectrum.

This hospital was built as a replacement for the cottage hospital in Bank Street. Mrs Ludlow Bruges of Seend was the benefactor who gave the hospital to the town.

This charming village straddles the banks of the River Bure amidst beautiful marshland.

On the east bank of the Cuckmere River opposite Alfriston, Lullington is very much a shrunken medieval village, with its isolated church a good quarter of a mile north of Lullington Court, the farm complex

The Royal Crescent looks out over a field which drops away to Victoria Park beyond, also fields when the Crescent was built.

Barclays Bank is along the left-hand side of the street in front of the distinctive Town Hall tower.

centre of Widnes has moved from the area around Victoria Square about a mile away so that it is now centred here and the street has become a pedestrian area with many of the major shops and banks