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Situated to the south-east of Milford Church, Hurst Castle was probably built between 1539 and 1544 and comprises a twelve-sided central tower protected by a curtain wall and semi-circular bastion towers

Because the difficult alkaline downland soil yielded indifferent crops, for centuries the South Downs were vast sheepwalks; by the 18th century there were 400,000 ewes grazing between Eastbourne and Hampshire

The bridge in the picture is just south of Padstow.

The small stone bridges still cross the beck in front of the village Post Office in the pretty village of Bishop Monkton, south of Ripon in the valley of the River Nidd.

Alongside the staithes is the South Eastern Gas Board's 'Brixton'; awaiting their turn are the 'Thomas Hardie' and the 'Flathouse'.

On the right is South Place, former home of members of the Harris family, which became the surgery of Dr Grant in 1947.

During the Second World War villagers were evacuated from many villages around the South Hams so that the district could become a D-Day training ground for American soldiers, who would practise troop

Some of the small boats here were almost certainly built at Lidstone's, whose South Town Yard started business in 1824.

Before efficient transport links were opened to Ilfracombe, steamers crossed the Severn estuary from South Wales, discharging hundreds of day-trippers into the town.

At the turn of the century, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.

While the harbour area is well known to tourists, the true village of Boscastle climbs a steep hill to the south, where it was by-passed in 1886.

We are looking south from Lower Gatesgarth. The pines of Crag Wood are prominent in the centre of the photograph, while the slopes of Dodd sweep up the lake shore beyond.

The north wing, which is jettied on a moulded wood bressumer, remains half-timbered; the south wing was rebuilt in the 19th century to house the parish hall.

These days Hopes Green is simply a westward extension of South Benfleet, but it started life as a hamlet of fishermen's cottages.

This view of Station Road looks south-west past the junction to Havelock Street, with the imposing clock tower of the 1903 Co-op store.

The South Parade pier is the more traditional of Southsea's two piers. It was opened in 1879 by Princess Saxe-Weimar, and it was extensively rebuilt in the Edwardian era after a fire in 1904.

Brixham is located at the south end of Tor Bay. Its natural harbour, sheltered by the limestone cliffs, made it ideal for settlement.

Just five miles south of Huddersfield on the road to Wakefield, Kirkburton in the 19th century was just as polluted by smoke as its near neighbours.

This was once an important stopping place on the main road from Taunton to the north Devon area; now, a new road further south has removed much of the traffic from this place.

The first structure was a toll bridge; today the river is spanned by various busy roads and a motorway - a far cry from the days centuries ago when this river and many others like it on the south coast

Excavations undertaken in 1892-93 revealed a medieval priory on the east and south side of the parish church.

This view looks north along South Gate past the extraordinarily grandiose statue in its towering medieval-style spired canopy to a 19th-century MP, Henry Handley, which dates from 1850.

The High Street is part of the old London to Brighton route through Henfield, which lies to the east of the River Adur on a belt of Wealden clay behind the South Downs.

Two of the girls have come down from the bridge and are inspecting the ruined south-west towers.