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Most of the stone was used for building, and as a convenient source of limestone for burning and spreading on the fields of Castle Farm as fertiliser.

The men standing at the door on the left are customers of the Lion Inn, which burned down on 8 November 1908 and was never rebuilt. The Congregational Chapel in the background was built in 1831.

After Tennyson's death in 1892 Burne Jones designed a window in Haslemere's St Bartholomew's Church as a memorial to the poet.

For many years ancient forest crafts were practised, including the making of charcoal from green sticks, which were burned slowly under controlled conditions in great heaps.Two are shown here ready

To the right of Balliol College is the famous Martyrs' Memorial, commemorating the 16th-century Protestant martyrs Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer, who were burned at the stake in nearby Broad Street.

The novelist John Galt was born in the town in 1779, but Irvine is more famous as the place where Robert Burns eked out a living as a flax-dresser between 1781 and 1783.

Further up the road is the Victorian parish church, which replaced one of 1791 which itself replaced the medieval one, apparently burned down in the Civil War.

The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.

In 1698 the traveller Celia Fiennes noted that there was a considerable industry of cutting and burning the bracken on Cannock Chase.

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

The Victorian chapel was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, and includes various tapestries by Burne-Jones and William Morris. Note Ye Olde North Gate Teahouse on the corner.

The church was burned down in the blitz, but restoration started in 1949 and the church was finally reconsecrated in 1957.

This bustling view of Church Road with its bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles is dominated by the sadly- lamented old Town Hall, which burned down in 1966.

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

On the extreme right is the former gaol, outside which the Protestant martyr Richard Snell was burned at the stake in 1558.

After Tennyson's death in 1892, Burne Jones designed a window in Haslemere's St Bartholomew's church as a memorial to the poet.

Originally oil burning, it was modified to electricity in 1940, about the time that this photo was taken. It was modified further in 1974.

Local lore says that they are a good luck charm, and that having a piece in your house will prevent it burning down.

Secondly, a local farmer called Thomas Higbed was burned at the stake in 1555, on a charge of heresy. He died in his own village, probably in a field opposite the school.

Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.

During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burning hayricks and destroying machinery.

If coal was burned in these houses, it had to be imported from the mainland.

The Constitutional Club (far left) burned down in February 1910. The blaze also damaged Archer's ironmongers' shop next door (with a kettle for its trade-sign).

The notorious Judge Jeffries condemned her to be burned at the stake, but this sentence was commuted to beheading. She is buried in the nearby churchyard at Ellingham.