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On the left is the ornate drinking fountain, while over on the right is one of the town's earliest theatres, the Theatre Royal, which opened in 1868.

Henry I gave the village and living of Burton Bradstock to the great Normandy abbey at Caen in exchange for the royal regalia of William the Conqueror, which the monks claimed had been gifted to them by

The church itself dates from Saxon and Norman times, when the village was an important centre of the Royal Forest of the Peak, a hunting preserve of Norman monarchs.

The toll house is the brick building on the left - a sign lists the charges, stating that because the bridge is privately owned, even soldiers on duty AND the Royal Family are obliged to pay to cross over

Peveril Castle was originally built by William Peveril, illegitimate son of the Conqueror, to administer the Royal Hunting Forest of the Peak.

A group of gunners from the Royal Field Artillery pause in their task of servicing their heavy artillery outside the ordnance depot at Deepcut Camp, which had been built in 1901.

It was on Goodworth Clatford that a flying bomb landed, destroying the old Royal Oak, the school, the smithy and a row of cottages.

If we drive through the village, before long we reach the entrance to the Royal Victoria Country Park, formerly the site of the old Netley Hospital.

The Royal Aquarium, to the left, was built in 1875 to house a skating rink and aquarium: it later became a cinema.

Waddington is now noted more for its large Royal Air Force station to the east of the village, but it grew up on a diversion of Ermine Street to the western scarp of the limestone ridge.

Nearby are the National Bank, the Royal Exchange, the Stock Exchange, and the Athenaeum Club.

The Royal Cromer Golf Club was formed in 1887 with HRH Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) as its first Patron.

The coats of arms are the Stuart Royal Arms and the City Arms; these were renewed in 1969.

Both Youings and The Royal and Fortescue are still in business, although the former has been rebuilt a couple of times.

The next few views are in the Inner Circle, east of the lake, which had been leased to the Royal Botanic Society from 1839 until 1932.

Now 'The Inn at Whitewell', the place has a reputation for serving good food and was built towards the end of the 14th century as a manor house by Walter Urswyck, a Keeper in the Royal Forest.

The present Wynyard Hall was completed in 1848, and many royal visitors were entertained there over the following hundred years.

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.

The Mersey's plucky little boats saw action in both World Wars, and the original 'Iris' and 'Daffodil' were awarded their title 'Royal' for their gallant service at Zeebrugge in 1918.

Following Charles II's defeat at Worcester, Dunnottar was the only fortress over which the royal standard of the house of Stewart remained flying.

Cheltenham, on the other hand, would probably still be the single-street market town it used to be, had not its meteoric development as a fashionable spa been kick-started when George III and the royal

It had been owned and developed by the Royal Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society for its members to enjoy and stock with the natural spoils of the Empire.

Since it was gradually absorbed to become a suburb of Royal Tunbridge Wells, this small village south of Tonbridge supported a number of businesses in its commercial centre.

It is dated to the late 18th century by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, but it is said locally to have been built to a design by Sir Christopher Wren.