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stopping-off point on the coaching route between Worcester and London, and consequently it is well-served with fine old country pubs and inns with courtyards that once rang to the clatter of hooves and iron-rimmed

The house to the right with a corrugated iron roof, now demolished, shows a common solution to failing thatch.

This view looks south down Dunstable Street from Market Place; the Moot Hall is on the right with its slender iron-glazed casements.

Many visitors climb Eggardon Hill to the Iron Age hill fort. Thomas Hardy used the ramparts as a setting in his novel 'The Trumpet Major'. Here we see the villagers enjoying a sunny day.

Iron was the main industry in Maesteg for 50 years, but by 1887 the last furnace had closed.

The original iron railings seen here skirting the lowest terrace were removed during the Second World War – chains eventually replaced them in 1948.

This curious name apparently comes from the Latin for a tenth or ten, the ten being iron rods or 'dickers' which a medieval ironmaster paid as his rent for the land hereabouts.

Had this picture been taken just a few years earlier it would have featured the Douglas Iron Pier, erected opposite the Central Hotel in 1869; it was dismantled in 1892.

The Trent & Mersey was connected to the upper level by means of a 162ft wrought-iron aqueduct; the Weaver was connected by a small basin.

On the credit side, however, the car park wall incorpo- rates excellent modern wrought iron sculptures, and lying as it does opposite the municipal offices, the car park looks like a town square.

The iron fence and bushes in the foreground at the junction with Meathop Road have now gone, and the old street lamp at its end has been replaced by a modern one by the side of the road

The wrought iron screen is particularly fine; it was erected in 1911 in memory of the Rev George Lomax, vicar for fifteen years. In 1992 the Accrington Pals Memorial Chapel was dedicated.

An iron-smelting furnace, controlled by the Churchill family, made cannon in 1754. The Seven Stars Inn, a picturesque 15th-century timber-framed building, is seen on the right, with a temporary sign.

The Roman engineers used a mixture of iron slag, sandstone and stones for their solid construction on this part of the route.

Now a tree-clad hilltop fort, this is another example of the many forts built by the Iron Age people. To date it has never been excavated.

The bridge now has a metal mesh balustrade, but the cast-iron spans are unchanged.

It now serves as a garage for an ice cream van, and it still has the iron bars over the windows.

By the 1890s it was not just the hulls of merchant sailing ships that were being constructed of iron or steel; many also carried steel masts, spars and fittings.

It now serves as a garage for an ice cream van, and it still has the iron bars over the windows.

Harrow Hill is an archaeological site with traces of an Iron Age hill-fort, a group of Neolithic flint mines and a Bronze Age farm enclosure. The scene today is little changed.

The steel industry used the docks to import iron and other materials that are part of the steel-making process.

All Saints church, higher up the village, has a massive Norman tower, and the church is built in the local iron-rich brown limestone.

During World War II it and the distinctive iron railings were dismantled and stored, thus escaping being melted down for Spitfires, and reinstated in 1949.

Both are built of local iron-stained oolitic limestone.