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In fact, this impressive stone circle dates from the Neolithic or early Bronze Age period, and predates the Celtic Druids by many centuries.

It dates from about 672, and is one of the oldest Christian survivals in England.

The north wing on the right is dated 1636, and contains an impressive long gallery with a decorated plaster ceiling.

This popular inn on the harbour at St Ives is said to date back to 1312.

The handsome Dorset House next door is dated 1705.

The building on the right of the bridge was called the Custom House Hotel at this date - it was later named the Dolphin.

The church dates back to the Norman Conquest, but very little of the original church remains; the initial period of restoration in the 1820s dramatically altered its structure.

It was a Roman town and the seat of an Anglo-Saxon bishopric, and is now dominated by its great late 11th-century Abbey church.

As we look from Tower Bridge, the dominance of William the Conqueror's White Tower keep, dating from the late 11th century and still the focus of the castle, is now somewhat reduced by office blocks, including

One of Kent's most ancient villages, Aylesford occupies a strategic crossing of the Medway, and dates from the time of the Saxons.

The Five Arrows Hotel is the best of these Rothschild buildings, dated 1887.

The central tower of the castle dates from a licence of 1454 when the thane was permitted to erect Cawdor 'with walls and ditches and equip the summit with turrets and means of defence, with warlike provisions

The classical building on the left dates from 1860 and was where the Westminster Bank had its Chester branch.

At this date the population of West Hartlepool was about 4700; by 1901 it had risen to 63,000.

Dating from the 7th century, and named after Winifride, or Gwenffrewi in Welsh, the holy well has been the site of pilgrimage ever since, and known as 'the Lourdes of Wales'.

The date 1960 is inscribed on the side of the bridge, which is now a fixed bridge with rolled steel joists and a wooden deck.

The beautiful white gates pictured here are not the ones that give this village its name - the name probably arose from much older gates at the nearby Vale Royal Abbey, once the largest Cistercian abbey

The nave and chancel date back to the 12th century; the tower is 13th century.

The terrace stepping down the hill on the left is dated 1880.

The manor house dates back to the 13th century, and formed part of a large estate.

Of the medieval church, only the chancel arch survives; the tower dates from 1606, the nave from 1842 and the chancel was rebuilt in 1931.

The central lamp standard dates from 1873: the globe is supported by fishes and surmounted with the crown and arrows of St Edmund, to whom the church is dedicated.

St Illtyd's is built in the Decorated style and dates from the early 14th century; the nave was rebuilt and a north aisle added in 1849 at a cost of £1,200.

This post mill is thought to date from the 17th century, and is perhaps the oldest working post mill in the country.