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A local legend says that the people planned to build it on lower land, but each night, after work, a pig came along and moved all the stones back up to the top of the hill.

The dark façade hides an 18th-century timber-framed house. Set back behind the railings beyond is The Rosery, a red brick house of c1750, which stands opposite the parish church.

This is locally known as the back road to Lincoln, and it looks a well surfaced village road.

A coble (pronounced 'cobble') is a very ancient type of fishing boat that goes back to Viking times. It is clinker built, with a flat bottom for landing on the beach.

Back towards the Market Hall we have another view of the King's Arms, the left hand part and the chimneys dating from the 1936 remodelling.

There have been important grammar schools in Thetford right back to 1566, when the Free Grammar School and hospital were founded by Sir Richard Fulmerton.

The young man's body was brought back to St Donat's, where it lay in state in the great gallery, looked down upon by the portraits of his equally dead ancestors.

This area dates back to the Middle Ages. This gate was manned for almost twenty- four hours, and was used to collect tolls from visitors and merchants on their way through to the town.

Ven House c1955 Further downhill along London Road, Ven House is set back from the road beyond a forecourt.

The back was occupied by a farmer, while the front housed a flourishing girls` school run by the Misses Bell, sisters to Nether Alderley`s rector.

Separated from the old town of Warrington by the Mersey and also (since the 1890s) by the Manchester Ship Canal, with Thelwall we are now back in that part of the county that was always Cheshire.

Part of this building dates back to the 16th century. It was once three separate houses, Nos 8,10, and 12 High Street, so there are still three entrances onto the pavement.

The so-called Giant's Grave in the churchyard of St Andrew's is actually a pair of tall Norse-influenced Saxon crosses with two hog-backed grave slabs in between.

Set off the main road, this square accommodates considerably more parked cars today.

The quarries, which roofed Victorian England from London to Birmingham and back, now offer various tours, and the Ffestiniog narrow-gauge railway carries passengers, rather than slate, to the coast at

A motte and bailey was built here in the early 1070s by Robert de Rhuddlan, but the ruins we see today date back to the fortress of Edward I.

The tall buildings behind the lamp post, one with a sign for the Club and Literary Institute and built as a temperance hotel the other a bank dated 1898, flanked the entrance to Station Road.

Situated on the north bank of the Medway, the original motte and bailey castle was replaced with stone by the early 13th century, when the shell keep was built.

The Duke's Head Inn (right), which would appear to date back to the 16th or 17th century from its quaint interior, is still here at the side of what is now a modern dual carriageway.

This is a quiet town on the south bank of the River Stour, at the point where it begins to widen into the estuary.

Further up Church Road, we are looking at the backs of 18th-century houses on Church End, the lane which leads to the medieval parish church of St Laud, out of shot to the left.

Today it houses the Yorkshire Bank and Provident Personal Credit.

The banks of the nearby river were strengthened, so that today it is safe to drink in the Feathers without wearing waders.

The sudden inward rush of water up the Severn is at its best when backed by a south-westerly wind; then the bore is like the one pictured here.