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Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flour- ished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

A walk along the downlands around Long Bredy shows this to be a very old landscape, with barrows and monoliths from prehistory and ridge paths from more recent times.

Templand is the farm to the upper right in this view, which was taken from Wart Barrow.

Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flourished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

For a very long time Whitby did not have such a thing as a fish shop, as the fishermen themselves supplied their wives, and most locals bought their fish from Jack Gash and his barrow

Barrow has an excellent public library, and the building has the same appearance today.

Many ships have been constructed in Barrow.

Running north to south with closely built houses of all ages, the High Street of this quaintly composed village is set in a large parish rich in vernacular architecture, ancient burial barrows

This is still a distinct village, with lanes winding uphill, although the wall on the right has now been replaced by a 1970s close, Titan Barrow, the name perpetuating a house of 1748 by Wood the Elder

Houses for the dockyard workers can be seen to the right on the Barrow shore.

It is possible that bodies were left here on funerary platforms - in the watchful presence of priests - to decompose, before a skeletal burial was carried out later in one of the many long barrows that

The High Level Bridge spans part of the dock area; it links Barrow Island, which was a separate island, with the mainland.

Generally known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, named after a local landowner (Tump being a Cotswold word to indicate a small hill or mound), this Neolithic long barrow a mile to the north of Uley

The church tower presides over the east end of Fore Street, where two prams and a barrow are the only wheeled traffic on a sunny day.

Barrow Hill runs off to the left with modern houses.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary

For many years the river at Barrow has possessed a watery magnetism which has drawn people from the city to its banks on warm summer days, either to enjoy a picnic, or to venture onto the

Here, a local passenger train is on the up line for Barrow, having left Grange station.

Lewis`s (left) has a fine array of braziers, bins and barrows outside.

knick-knacks; family parties, encamped with umbrellas and novels; eager children, sprawling babies and their nurses, and scores of adventurous youngsters seriously labouring in the sand with spade and wheel-barrow

A local character, Miss Barrow, lived in Ancaster House where she was well known for her vegetable garden.

We are looking westwards to the snout of Goggin's Barrow (right), Black Head (centre), and Redcliff Point (left) above Weymouth Bay.

This was once a magnificent chambered long barrow that was covered with a brilliant white chalk mound.

Other street names were taken from ships that had been built at Vickers shipyard in Barrow.