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The Edinburgh Castle we see today is, with a few additions, that built by the Earl of Morton following the siege of 1572.

Once known as Morton Foliot, the parish of Castle Morton runs a long way up to the Malvern Hills.

Despite some modern buildings, Castle Morton is a village of great charm.

This view was taken from the building at the very end of Morton Crescent.

A young man in a boater smiles at the Frith photographer just in front of the long and impressive Morton Crescent, so little changed since this photograph was taken towards the end of Queen

Somerleyton Hall dates back to Elizabethan times, although it was extensively rebuilt in 1846 by Sir Samuel Morton Peto, who made his fortune out of the railways.

Castle Morton has no real known link with England's most famous outlaw, though Robin Hood features as a place name all over the Midlands and the North.

The following year, a Fylde girl, Lucy Morton, won the Olympic swimming race in Paris.

Somerleyton was built 1844-51 by Sir Samuel Morton Peto, the railway contractor, builder and developer of Lowestoft.

The growth of Lowestoft in Victorian times was largely down to construction by the civil engineer Samuel Morton Peto, who lived in the splendid Somerleyton Hall nearby.

Mortons were selling 'K' shoes and next door is now the home of One Tree Books.

This fine view looks across the clock tower and Morton Crescent to the estuary of the River Exe, with Starcross and the Haldon Hills in the distance.

This fine view looks across the clock tower and Morton Crescent to the estuary of the River Exe, with Starcross and the Haldon Hills in the distance.

The Edinburgh Castle we see today is, with a few additions, that built by the Earl of Morton following the siege of 1572.

These were all part of the mid-Victorian development of Lowestoft as a seaside resort by Sir Samuel Morton Peto of Somerleyton Hall.

The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

The journalist-cum-explorer Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands in a cottage beneath the castle.

The left hand one - the 'Stafford' - sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

One of the finest medieval churches in Dorset, with an outstanding decorated roof and Turberville family effigies, the tower (top) and Morton Chapel (centre) were added in the 16th century.

This view was taken from the building at the very end of Morton Crescent.

Originally built by Archbishop Islip in the mid 14th century, it was subsequently altered by Archbishop Morton during the following century.

Lowestoft's Claremont pier was not built until 1903 - prior to that, the southern breakwater of the harbour built by Samuel Morton Peto was adapted as a pier, giving visitors the contrast of fishing harbour

Sir Samuel Morton Peto, the developer of Lowestoft, built these model cottages for his estate workers.

Charlotte's novel 'Jane Eyre' is set around the area, Hathersage appearing in the book under the name of Morton.