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This man and his best friend are sheltering from the sun on the north-facing side of this Victorian enclosure.

This is a classic site for a church - on a hillock that is easy to defend.

Barton Bridge closed in favour of road traffic.

Designed by John Welch and built in the 1830s, the new Ballaugh church was one of a number built or rebuilt in the early decades of the 19th century.

Designed by Leader Williams, it comprised two water-tight tanks, each capable of holding a pair of narrow boats.

This is a quiet residential road in a village of fine buildings. The most impressive is probably Brasted Place, built by Robert?

Some of the lime trees have also gone; but now seats have been provided so that townsfolk can enjoy the area, and there are innovations in the form of a telephone kiosk and a pillar box.

In December 2000, it was estimated that 400,000 cubic metres of earth was slowly moving down the side of Leith Hill.

It is a sunny day in this quiet village that stands between the water meadows of the River Wey and Alice Holt Forest.

The open aspect of the street pictured here and familiar to us today originates from the demolition of older buildings in 1862 to allow road widening.

The interior view of St John's Church shows the east window depicting Christ holding the orb, flanked by St Peter and St Mary. It is a memorial to the Rev George Garbett, vicar of St James'.

A church stood on the site of the present St John teh Baptis;s church over 900 years ago.

Only the left-hand wing of the building is occupied by the police, while the right-hand wing is the Civic Hall. The photograph perhaps gives the impression of intimidating size and spacious grounds.

St Bartholomew's enjoys an elevated position, possibly the site of a prehistoric fort, at the corner of Church Hill and Vicarage Road.

This photograph, taken from the churchyard, shows the hilltop church of All Saints, Bakewell, as it appeared about 40 years after the major rebuilding which took place between 1841-52.

Like the pub and school, rural post offices are under constant threat of closure, and in recent times they have been closing at the rate of 400 a year.

The cliffs below the road in the foreground were the scene in 1952 of two notorious murders.

Situated a few hundred yards to the south of the observatory, Bidston Mill was built at the beginning of the 19th century and was in full operation until 1875.

The Kings Arms Hotel (right), built in 1750, was a stop for the changing of horses and the collection of post on the London to Bristol route.

The old hospital (1576) on the right, so called since it performed that function during the Napoleonic Wars, forms the main subject of this early picture of the most photographed of Rye's cobbled

The Fishpond is a famous petrifying well, where the high levels of lime in the water will turn to stone anything placed in it.

A crowded WSV 'Tern' prepares to embark on a trip down Windermere from the Waterhead pier on a summer's day.

Now the centre of a hectic one-way traffic system, Grasmere's parish church of St Oswald is perhaps best known for being the last resting place of the poet William Wordsworth, who is buried there alongside

The busy industrial village of Millom on the Duddon Estuary was founded on the wealth won from the iron ore discovered at nearby Hodbarrow in 1868.