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Boats moored here are hired out by the owner of the Ferry Inn. The horse-drawn ferry has a history going back to the 13th century.

Willington stands on the Trent and Mersey Canal in the Trent valley to the south of Derby.

At one time striped sunblinds of the type protecting the third door were very popular. Nearby is the church of St Mary the Virgin, parts of which date from the 14th century.

Ashmore is a village of Cranborne Chase, with a splendid setting and a large pond that attracts a variety of birdlife.

Another view of Harrison Stickle, highest of the Langdale Pikes, this time from the valley at the bridge near the Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, a favourite haunt of walkers and climbers.

With the opening in 1920 of the Queen's Dock, Swansea Docks covered an area of 269 acres.

In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.

This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side- by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

Just beyond the green is the 12th-century church of St Michael, with its Norman tower and font.

This photograph was taken from roughly the site of the old Post Office.

Cleckheaton is another former textile town, five miles south of Bradford, which has had to find a new role during the late 20th century.

The working lives of the Dorset labourers who lived in cottages like these was hard, with poor wages and long hours.

The road here has since been widened with the demolition of the butcher's shop - can you see the legs of meat hanging outside the window of Mason's?

Schoolboys gather outside the King's School, not long before the outbreak of the Great War.

Wisbech's elongated market place bustles with activity on Thursdays and Saturdays.

This group of Tudor houses was originally plastered, and before a road-widening scheme in 1931, three gables stood across the St Margaret's Plain end.

This broad is almost a mile long, and at this part of it the dinghy passengers and the cattle are enjoying a quiet moment.

In the 10th century, when permission was granted for a house to be built on the bar, the yearly rentcharged was sixpence.

Cromer was one of the most fashionable resorts for gentlefolk in late Victorian Britain. The story of the town as a popular holiday destination began when the railway arrived in 1877.

The church sits in a well-treed landscape, close to the basically late 16th-century Hall of the Hartopp family, who financed the building of the church in 1851.

Below, a shingle beach with patches of pea-grit provides a spot for rest and relaxation between Raffey's Ledge and the Mouth Rocks, where the River Char enters the sea.

The significance of Town Bridge is that of an enduring physical presence.

The camera looks north, with Old Schools on the left; this is effectively the original Harrow School building of 1608, with the wing seen here added by C R Cockerell in 1819.

We are on the southern slope of the Downs, north of Chichester. Boxgrove Priory, of the Benedictine Order, was founded in 1105.