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A small-scale start for what is now Highlands End Caravan Park. here we are Looking north towards St Peter`s Church, on The Mount.

This rural lane is now unrecognisable, being a tarmac road leading to a car park, the library and a council estate, although the church with its broach spire and the High Street houses on the skyline remain

Silecroft, near Millom, stands at the southernmost extremity of the Lake District National Park, at the foot of Black Combe (1,970 ft).

The area to the right is the edge of Debden Park - the grounds of Debden Hall that were landscaped in the late 18th century, possibly by the mighty Humphrey Repton.

The scene is virtually the same today except for an extended parking area in the foreground and a different set of retailers occupying the shops.

The park opened in 1911 on land given by Sir Alfred Hickman, a local industrialist.

A small-scale start for what is now Highlands End Caravan Park. here we are Looking north towards St Peter's Church, on The Mount.

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

It was designed by Edward Parke in 1806 and completed in 1829.

Times change, and the lane to the left leads to Petworth's main car park.

The attempt to impose parking on one side of the street on alternate days has long since been abandoned in favour of time limits.

It can, however, be very noisy here at times - the parish is now also home to the Oulton Park motor racing circuit.

In 1891 the first experiments in England using overhead wiring for electric trams took place on the Roundhay Park route.

Bridport is best explored on foot, so park the car and wander around.

When this picture was taken it had become dilapidated, and the central cottage was soon afterwards restored by the National Park Authority.

Nearby Parham Park has a fine Elizabethan mansion that is open to visitors during the summer months.

The college opened in 1876 in two houses in Park Row with just 87 day students and 234 evening students.

Just behind the parked car on the left is the carved entrance to the post office, while on the right a Singer's sign advertises the advantages of sewing on an electrically powered machine.

Further along the street, and almost a decade later, an early motor car is parked outside the entrance of the Royal Lion Hotel, which was rebuilt in blue lias ashlar after a devastating fire

To the forefront stands a horse-trough supplied by the RSPCA, and over to the right is one of the enterprises that would have kept the horses busy - Gilbey's Wines & Spirits, with its cart parked outside

This public park, with its neatly-trimmed shrubs and bushes, occupies the former site of the vineyard of the Benedictine monastery founded in 1082 by Bishop Gundulf.

The scene of Falstaff's miseries in Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', Datchet stands on the Thames bank, opposite Home Park.

Over on the Westside you can see Cripplegate Park, created in 1930 on the site of the long-established Wilesmith's timber yard.

This broad space was turned into a public park in 1840.