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Helped by improved fertilisers, increased yields made farming on the Downs more profitable by the end of the Victorian period; however, arable farming on the chalky downland soils remained difficult.

This view looks down Lower High Street, where the King Edward VI Grammar School can be seen on the right.

The view is south- westwards from Bindon Hill (right) down to the fishing boats on the beach between the boathouse and cafe, to Dungy Head (centre right).

Here, about a mile below Devil's Bridge, the river's waters fall rapidly as they travel down the narrow and steep-sided Clydach Valley to the Usk.

The tree we see here in front of St Andrew's church was an elm that suffered from Dutch elm disease in the 1960s and had to be cut down.

The most famous of all white horses, the Uffington horse lies on the Berkshire Downs near Wantage.

We are looking away from the High Street down Chequer Street. The post-enclosure brick cottages on the left have now been replaced with modern housing.

A scene that was once familiar in many villages up and down the country. Notice the petrol pump on the right.

Pedestrians could walk down the middle of the street with impunity when this mid-morning photograph was taken just before the First World War.

The northern end of the Post Office (just visible down Basket Street in the centre) would now be on Royal Parade outside Dingles.

The ferry queue no longer blocks Fore Street - it takes the road on the right down to a large waiting area by the river.

A view down the hill towards the fine tower of the Parish Church of St Ia. The first building on the left was a Navigation School at the time.

Middlesmoor is one of the highest villages in Nidderdale, enjoying fine views down the dale, especially from the churchyard of St Chad's parish church.

Further down is Plums Cycle Depot.

Looking west down the hill with some 'modern' streetlighting.

The town is already heading down market and away from James Atherton's ideals.

Scots fisher girls followed the herring shoals down to the port in the autumn and worked tirelessly day and night gutting and packing.

The Crown Hotel in the High Street tried very hard; but it did the proprietors no good, because the hotel closed down soon afterwards.

Sixteen people lost their lives amidst the debris and boulders that were washed down with the flood water.

Regular cruises take enthusiasts down-river to see the famous avocets on the river's mud banks. These fisherfolk and boat- men share a rare idle moment in a busy day.

A random collection of cottages around a pair of lanes forms an oval.The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine—or monkey-puzzle tree—grows in a garden further down the hill

Here we see a busy scene, with parked cars on the right and an open-topped bus bound for Southend chugging down the Street on the left.The picture is taken from close to the railway bridge, looking

Victorian tourists would walk the six miles across Ballard Down to see these unusual rock formations on the coast near to Swanage.

Down by the crossroads is the Six Bells public house, while to the left, the church is one of only two in England dedicated to Saint Vigor.