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This is a fine example of an old farming village - in 1974 it was declared a conservation area.

We are not sure when it became the 'local', but it is thought that Mr Romer Williams, whose name it preserves, was the resident of Newnham Hall for the first decades of the 20th century.

As we head north, Warton Crag is the first sign of the Lake District with its ancient limestone rocks.

Middleton was granted a market charter on 23 June 1791 and the market remained here until 1939. Surrounded by shops and inns, the Market Place was the hub of the town for many years.

Camberley lies on the south side of the A30.

This unusual viewpoint is from the tower of St Helen's parish church; we are looking south over the roofs of Brick Alley Almshouses and their panelled chimney stacks. These were rebuilt in 1718-20.

Here we see a close-up view of the Market Hall with its imposing front and large statues mounted over the entrance.

Here we have a grand view of the railway arches heading out of Whalley.The railway arrived in the village in 1850, and the 600yd- long viaduct carries the Blackburn to Clitheroe line at a height of

We are looking down from the keep of Clitheroe Castle to the town below.

At the south end of the High Street Frith's photographer looks northwards beside the turning on the right into Hawleys Lane.

The main shopping areas of Broad Street and Church Street have not changed too much in character since the camera clicked on this scene.

Here is a village at ease with itself, in the heart of stone country. On the extreme right is a single-decker bus which would now be an asset to any transport collection.

A mile or so south of Quorn, the camera looks north towards the weir, with Hawcliff Hill and Buddon Wood to the left.

Seaton developed as a resort in the 1850s, and in the years that followed a number of hotels were built to cater for the town's popularity with visitors.

This Gothic arched doorway was originally the front door of The Mount, which was where Stanley Baldwin lived as a boy. The 19th century house is now a hotel (the Stourport Manor Hotel).

Pentewan was developed as a port in the 1820s for shipping ores and china clay, which were brought down from St Austell on a railway built in 1829.

The parish church of St Michael is one of the most interesting in the Lake District.

Here we see the gatehouse and the moat of the tower-keep. As a professional soldier, William Herbert had fought for and been knighted by Henry VI.

impressive ashlar tower dominates the immediate street scene with its substantial angled buttresses and crocketted finials; these are not 15th-century, but were added in 1832, after the collapse of

We can see the corner of the 13th-century castle in the top right of this photograph. The house dominating the picture was built by Thomas Mansel-Talbot in the 1770s.

The course of the canal meant that a section of the L&NWR line to Liverpool via Warrington and Speke would have to be re-routed; this resulted in the building of Latchford Viaduct.

On the B1368 road a mile or so north of Braughing stands the small community of Hay Street.

This attractive village stands in the beautiful valley of the River?Darent north of Sevenoaks. Here we see an empty street scene before motor traffic was commonplace.

We are at the foot of the Downs by the route of the London to Brighton main line railway.