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Overlooking the River Asker and Happy Island, north-westwards to Watton Hill (centre) as a Great Western Railway pannier tank engine (right) steams out of Bridport Station (far left) with a goods train

Taken from the bridge over the River Bride, this view looks northwards into the southern section of the High Street.

In the residual hedgerows and trees lie clues to an 18th-century rural landscape; the enclosures of the 1760s were hated by John Clare, the Northamptonshire poet, for its deleterious effect on the

The castle grounds were purchased from Lord Montagu and passed to the people of Clitheroe in 1920. Essential work on the grounds cost £15,000, which was found by fund raising.

The expanding population of Walney meant that a bridge to replace the ferry became essential. It had to be an opening bridge to allow the passage of shipping up the channel to some of the docks.

Trains from Ulverston to Lakeside no longer cross the viaduct spanning the channel of the River Leven – it has gone to make way for A590 improvements.

Following the death of the owner, the site was acquired by the town and first opened to the public in 1960.

A four-hour period in the stocks was the usual reward for misdemeanours such as blasphemy, drunkenness, vagrancy or breaking the Sabbath.

By 1900, the citizens had erected a statue in front of the Market Hall of the great Admiral Blake, who was born in Bridgwater in 1598.

After the historic riches of Dunster we descend, physically as in other ways, to Blue Anchor Bay, a seaside resort with a long beach and little character.

The sheer size of the building indicates the importance of the railway to the town.

Travellers on the A25 cannot fail to see the scars on the south side of the North Downs that were once the Betchworth quarries.

The institute, which offered a range of evening classes for workers, and was famed for its penny lectures, was one of the earlier projects linked with a major redevelopment of the town centre

The arrival of the railway in 1878 was one of the reasons for its growth.

The house was built for Sir Thomas Eden in c1593, of which only this range remains.

Ashburton was the terminus of the nine-mile branch of the Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon line, which was completed in 1872.

We can see the entrance to the Switchback Railway (which arrived in Barry in 1887) on the left, with cloakrooms and toilets on the right.

Like Macclesfield and many other small towns around, Wilmslow was to develop enormously in the 18th century with the introduction of industries linked to local silk and cotton mills.

St Mary's Church stands overlooking the old village green; it once served a parish that included the then small hamlet of Congleton nearby.

Overlooking the Gayton Sands, Parkgate now attracts bird watchers rather than travellers on their way to Ireland. Much of the land around here is now owned by the RSPB.

The horse-drawn carts in the fore ground have yet to be superseded by motor transport, even in this comparatively late stage of mechanised development.

The name of the small boat, 'Emily', and that of her owner, one T Ley of Porlock Weir, can be readily identified from the stern sheets.

The top end of the main street in Penzance is dominated by the impressive classical frontage of the Market House and Old Town Hall, erected in 1837.

Situated just to the east of Leeds, the village of Kippax was the scene of much coal mining since 1410. The estate surrounding the old Kippax Hall contained many unusual black deer.