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Still more came in the late 19th century after the arrival of the railways.

Just eleven years later the railway came to Whitby, altering trading patterns completely.

The wide end of the Ironmarket was also known as Butchers' Row; even its supply of water came to the surface courtesy of the Butchery Pump.

After the railway came to Mundesley in 1898, it was anticipated that the village would be as popular as Cromer.

The names Crane Street and Crane Corner came from the use of the crane to transfer trucks onto the tramway.

Piped water came to the village in 1892 after an outbreak of typhus. The ford was replaced by a bridge over the beck in the winter of 1966/67.

Compton Castle, near Marlton in Devonshire, is a 14th-century manor house built without a moat, though the gatehouse came complete with machicolations.

Its name refers to its position on the river Anton. In 1945 its population was 16,000, but today it is three times that. High Street remains unchanged, and is still used for markets on Saturdays.

The latter write his poem 'Lamia' here, while Longfellow wrote a verse in praise of the ferruginous spring which issues out of the Chine, whose waters health-conscious visitors came to sample

Laleham was a tiny village when Dr Thomas Arnold, soon to be the formidable headmaster of Rugby School, came to live here in Regency times.

In the early-1850s, an old soldier lived in Tunstall who, because he was a veteran of Wellington's army at Waterloo, went by the name of 'Waterloo'.

In the early-1850s, an old soldier lived in Tunstall who, because he was a veteran of Wellington's army at Waterloo, went by the name of 'Waterloo'.

The village has acquired international fame as the home of the Quorn Hunt; its founder Hugo Meynell took residence in 1753 at Quorn Hall (now an educational centre).

When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1953, the village erected a Coronation Bridge and laid out Coronation Gardens, which we can see here.

The slip road on the left-hand side leads through to a grid-work of streets of Victorian houses, presumably built to house the miners who came to live in the area during the mining boom of

The Spirella Company came to Letchworth in 1910. The new factory was commissioned in 1912, and was built over the following eight years.

The very fine 15th-century gateway came from the Old Schools in Cambridge in c1754. Queen Victoria rented Madingley Hall in 1861 while the Prince of Wales was at Cambridge.

Her close neighbour at nearby Rydal Mount was William Wordsworth, who had his own pew in the church; so did the family of Dr Arnold of Rugby School fame.

She came into service in 1958.

Working people usually had one set of clothes for work and another for best, and for a trip to the seaside the best clothes came out of the closet - or the pawn shop.

Lakeside is the settlement furthest away from the Lakeland mountains, but it is historically important as the entry point for large numbers of Victorian day visitors who came up from Lancashire by way

An old story says that King Alfred came here to build a palace, but instead he built a shipyard on the estuary of the Cuckmere nearby.

It is said that the ornate staircase in the Town House came from Standon Lordship. The white shed on the left stands next to the village pond where the villagers skated in winter.

The village began to expand in 1866-1867 when a local man came up with a scheme to transform it into a popular seaside resort.