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A considerable transformation from the scene at the turn of the century, with the macadamised road surface, traffic lights and road islands now channelling the cars and lorries.

The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Dagenham, dates back to the 13th century. In 1800 the tower collapsed and was rebuilt.

A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border. At the top of the hill is the mainly 14th-century church of the Holy Trinity.

The church of St Peter, with its 14th-century tower made entirely of wood and supported inside by a framework of huge oak timbers, also has a 13th-century chancel and a south aisle added a hundred years

The Heath, extending from Kenwood House in the north to an area around Parliament Hill in the south, occupies some 800 acres; it has been popular with artists and authors (and the Gordon Rioters) since

This is the junction of Coastal Road and Station Road, with 'Halt' signs painted on the road and squared T-shaped traffic signs gently controlling what little traffic there was.

Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect

It is thought that the name derives from the Welsh `porth coed`, or `the harbour below the wood`, and indeed it may well have been the port for the nearby Roman town of Caerwent.

Nestled in the rear slopes of the North Downs, the village derives its ancient name from the Saxon word 'wudmeresthorn', meaning 'thornbush by the boundary of the wood', and was mentioned in the Domesday

The original tower was probably the first part of the castle to be built of stone, though its internal buildings were still wooden.

Often referred to as 'the Alpine village' because of its sylvan setting at the head of a wooded valley, the cluster of houses known as Hutton Village dates from the mid 19th century, when Mr Thomas

The great landslip of the coast between Axmouth and Lyme Regis took place on Christmas Day 1839, when a chasm nearly a mile in length was created when the existing cliffs fell towards the sea

The three-gabled house on the right, Hartshorne House or the Old Hospital, 15th-century and 1576, was described in 1863 as 'an unsightly pile of wood and plaster too dilapidated to allow the lowest to

Hancock & Wood and Roberts shoe shop are almost all that remain of this 1950s scene.

Churchgate Street lay on the main route from London to Newmarket, Cambridge, Norwich and the North.

The view across the river from the wooded slopes of Pelaw Wood is magnificent. In the distance are the cathedral and the castle, and below is the former race course alongside the river.

This view could be Cofton Woods, Pinfield Wood or Lickey Warren, among others.

This view could be Cofton Woods, Pinfield Wood or Lickey Warren, among others.

Porter Brook meanders its way from Forge Dam and skirts one edge of Whiteley Woods and Bingham Park before descending over the weirs into Endcliffe Wood.

Sherwood Forest once covered over 100,000 acres between Nottingham and Worksop, although the great ducal estates of the Dukeries enclosed much of the north part for their parks.

A ship carrying cotton bales was shipwrecked off Wirral, and the bales washed ashore. Wood and parts of the ship soon sank into the sand, but the bales of cotton did not.

A swannery lay on the wooded islet in the pear-shaped lake, and a paddling pool was added later. The extensive dockland area lay out of sight behind the wooded hill and the power station.

They were built in 1798 by Richard Pringle for John Wood of Beadnell Hall, and it was Wood who also extended the harbour for the export of lime and coal.

The original grandstand was built in 1830, and had a grand saloon, refreshments, a betting-room, and space for the aristocratic Jockey Club.