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The traditional, stone-built market town of Dolgellau has developed at a crossing point on the river Wnion.

Set in the midst of particularly fertile part of the county, Ottery had a market for centuries.

Viewed from the west, the façade of the west front is dominated by the Great West Window and the Triple Arch Door.The west front of many cathedrals were intended to be showpieces.

This shows the view from the roof of Bent's Brewery. In the 12th century there was an Augustinian priory in the village.

Wrexham stands on the tributary of the River Dee. It is a town full of history - the founder of Yale University in the US (Elihu Yale), came from the Wrexham area, and is buried at St Giles's church.

A further view of the High Street taken eight years after photograph 35669, this time from closer to the columns of the Town Hall.

From Saxon times Feckenham was the administrative centre for the Forest of Feckenham, which once covered most of north Worcestershire.

A Rover 80 is parked to the left of the yellow brick Grosvenor Hotel, the headquarters of the Houghton Club, a fishermen's club controlling fishing on the River Test.

It was not only Wordsworth who could see daffodils; we in Lincolnshire can see millions of them at the appropriate time of the year.

Solid sandstone terraced houses line the Main Street of Castleton in Eskdale, on the northern edge of the North York Moors.

Here are some splendid examples of Victorian shop fronts. W J Bacon's general store has awnings and a covered walkway to protect customers from both sun and shower.

Until the late 13th century, the town of Chepstow appears to have had no defences on its landward side.

Five years after the end of the Second World War, there was still much evidence of the severe bombing around the cathedral.

Pub, children's playground, restaurant, tea room - the Combe Cellars is all of these. It is built on a spit of land to the south side of the Teign estuary, and can be reached by only one road.

This is one of the final stretches of golden sand that once graced the foreshore at Parkgate before the estuary totally silted up and salt marsh encroached. Parkgate was a popular yachting centre.

Stevenage was the first of a series of post-Second World War new towns ringing London. Initially, Knebworth had been suggested, but it was felt that railway provision was better at Stevenage.

A set of stone steps leading nowhere might seem a rather odd thing to have on the roadside.

Now in Cornwall, Mount Edgecumbe, from where this picture was taken, was once part of Devon. The nearby vil- lage of Kingsand still has a stone showing where the boundary used to lie.

One of the most famous prehistoric structures in England, these three upright stones, surmounted by a capstone almost thirteen feet long, formed the central compartment of a Neolithic burial chamber.

This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking

St Mary's Church was built between 1875-77 on the site of a former cotton factory in Buttermarket Street, close to the working-class districts which provided its congregation.

The post office and general store were essential parts of village life, so not surprisingly they feature on many of Frith's postcards; these were later sold at the post office counter and the village store

Road traffic was much lighter in the 1950s, but even then Sankey Street represented a major bottleneck on the main A57 Liverpool to Manchester Road.

The school was built on the Green in 1872 at a cost of £700, with accommodation for 70 children. The side windows have gone and have been replaced by six sky-lights in the roof.