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It was in Victorian times on the Old Bedford River near Earith that a most bizarre experiment took place.

Difficult though golf is, the natural hazard of crumbling cliffs on the edge of Sheringham Golf Links normally ensures that golfers practice their accuracy. Here we have two who have not!

Removal of the ivy enables us to admire the late 18th-century house (with a painter in action, left) and next door, a Georgian façade conceals a timber-framed house dated to 1454-55.

The first house on the left is a 16th-century timber-framed structure with an early 17th-century façade.

The priests of the college were 'chantry priests' who offered masses for the souls of the dead, their founder and benefactors.

Mid-way between Chailey and Haywards Heath is Scaynes Hill, and this photograph shows the summit of the hill. Though there is still a pub here, it is now called the Farmers.

A mile east of the Culham Science Centre we reach the charming village of Clifton Hampden on its tree-covered cliff by the River Thames.

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.

After the Dissolution of 1538 nearly all the monastic buildings, including the great church, were demolished, some quickly, others more slowly, until little trace remained of the vast Benedictine

The Lion, a fine and historic building, had been largely demolished in the late 1930s and replaced by the pallid neo-Georgian Woolworth's building seen on the extreme left of the photograph and the more

Virginia Cottage is on the left, and the shop of shoemaker Fred Cox who was succeeded by Frank Cox.

A bracing north-easterly catches flags and furls the lugsails of three packed boats entering harbour.

We are in the extreme southern tip of the county: whilst Stanford Hall is in Leicestershire, the parish church and the village are in Northamptonshire.

As can be seen here, the river formed part of the castle's defences. The landward defences included a moat, a drawbridge and a barbican.

Marrying the Duke of Monmouth, she sheltered him at Toddington when his scheme to take the throne from James II came unstuck.

Blackburn possessed six parks, but Corporation Park was the one laid out on clear Victorian lines. Sixty acres were transformed with terraced walks, as we see here.

The art of bartering was just dying out. Fifty years before, you would spend a long time on every purchase discussing the price and making offers.

Here we see the front face of Owen's College on Oxford Road, and you can see similarities to the Assize Court, and even the Town Hall, all of which were designed by Alfred Waterhouse.

Stonehenge is the most well-known stone circle in the world, and this view is possibly one of the most remembered and famous.

The shop extension filled with shoes and boots is now filled with all manner of things for pets. On the other side of the road was a garage, which is now the Job Centre and the Sue Ryder shop.

The Old Priory Café, the gabled building on the left, now a picture gallery, has a 17th-century façade and a medieval jettied front with pargetting (plaster designs).

Looking North The main street of Old Swindon was first recorded in 1581.

Shirehampton was eventually linked by rail to Bristol with the opening of the Clifton Extension Railway in the 1870s.

Though the Gardens were opened in 1836, within four years of this picture being taken the Gardens' operating company was in financial trouble.