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Tetbury lies near the boundary of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire on the long stretch of high road between Stroud and Malmesbury.

At the centre of this photograph lies the Norman tower of Oxford Castle. Within its precincts lie a Saxon mound and a Norman crypt.

The village of Hinderwell lies between Easington and Runswick Bay. Here, in this delightful view of 1929, we see an early motorcar outside the Rectory.

This is one of the most popular of the Broadland river inns, equally accessible by road or river.

Back in 1900, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire said of March's Market Place:'the Fire Engine House is in the Market Place; there is one 40 horse power steam engine by Shand and Mason, with about half-a-mile

Not part of Trinity College, but a college in its own right, Trinity Hall was founded in 1350 by William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich.

FEW PEOPLE would be shocked by the idea of a national poll, conducted by Idler magazine, discovering that Luton was Britain's 'crappiest town'.

On top of Table Mountain is a 2,500-year-old fort (a crug) of Hywel, from which the town derived its name.

The church of St Chad, with two bells hanging in its open belfry, stands a short distance down the lane opposite the Fenwick Arms.

This old wool town is situated north of Cheltenham in the deep valley of the River Isbourne.

Unlike King's Lynn, which remained predominantly a port, Great Yarmouth was able to embrace the functions of both port and holiday destination, with its harbour channel to the west and its holiday

KIPPAX was a small estate village servicing Kippax Hall and Kippax Park for three centuries before developing rapidly in the mid 19th cen- tury with the discovery of coal reserves.

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

One of its most famous pupils was the radical writer and activist Tom Paine, author of 'The Rights of Man' (1790-92). There is a statue of him in the town.

The pretty village of Shackleford, west of Godalming, has a mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly

Many estates of what we now call social housing sprang up around Britain following the war.

The ancient name for the village is Barelegh (meaning 'wasteland'), but lush meadows now support flocks of sheep.

The abbey was founded in AD670 as a nunnery by Sexburga, widow of Ercombert, King of Kent; the original building was burnt by the Danes.

In this very settled community, very little has happened during the past forty years to change the appearance of either the building or its surroundings.

The manor of Offord Cluny was held by the monks of Cluny from 1086. The parish church of All Saints is built of brown cobbles with Barnack limestone, repaired in brick.

Clanfield sits in a valley to the west of the A3, 12 miles north of Portsmouth, and 6 miles south of Petersfield. Its name derives from Old English, and means 'field clean of weeds'.

Even the wooden gate (centre) is newer, but of the same functional design.

The contraption on the brick wall of Allin's Newsagents beside the pub is a vending machine.

The years between 1904 and 1914 were boom years for the game of golf - a large number of both private clubs and municipal greens were opened at this time.