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Martello Towers were built in the time of Napoleon to guard the coast.

The grand Victorian hotel catering for the wealthy dominates the sky-line to the top left, mirrored by the terrace of cheaper B and Bs on the right.

'The large cellars or caves beneath the town, dug out of the sand rock, are highly curious.

This, the main body of the university, is spread over approximately 190 acres. The university uses many of the historical buildings in the city, as well as the Hall.

Kempsey's church, seen here through the trees, has a puzzling 18th-century monument inside, which reads 'Underneath the corruptible parts of a vicar, one husband, two helpmeets, both wives and both Anns

The cenotaph can be seen to the left of centre of the park, which is on Market Street. The memorial is dedicated to Whitworth men who died in the two World Wars.

The life of a moorland farmer is tough today; in 1890, with no Landrovers, electricity or modern waterproofs, it must have been unimaginably harsh and very isolated.

By the 1960s, time had taken its toll on the castle and it was in a poor state of repair.

The house dates from the reign of Elizabeth I, but was largely rebuilt following a major fire which undermined the structure in 1886.

On the ridge nearby is the source of the River Frome - that beautiful Dorset brook that crosses nearly forty miles of the county before reaching the sea.

A cart delivers fresh water around the village of Puncknowle. The water came gushing from a grotto in the middle of the village.

Bradwell is built on the steep slopes of Bradwell Dale, and the Steps are an easy way for pedestrians to get from the lower to the upper part of the village.

This delightful traditional English village scene of the ford and the church in the background has changed very little since the photograph was taken.

The popularity of Frith's postcards was already well established when this photograph was taken, as a sign on the wall above the door shows.

This is one of Frith's posed groups. The fisherman on the right is well protected from the elements.

Here we see the unchanging pageantry of the Changing of the Guard. Since it is not summetime, there are few tourists.

Here we see one of the inscribed stones, restored for the centenary of the park in 1993.

Stanhill Post Office was the home of James Hargreaves, the inventor in 1764 of the Spinning Jenny. His invention made an enormous contribution to the textile industry.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the River Bure from the village street. Handsome pantile-roofed red-brick houses line the grassy banks.

King's Norton is less than two miles from Bournville, and though urban sprawl between the wars linked it to Birmingham, the old village still retains much of its rural character.

Solid Georgian houses group around the crossroads in the middle of Fremington, just outside Reeth in Swaledale.

Kirkbymoorside, on the edge of the North York Moors, still holds its market every Wednesday, just as it has done since medieval times.

According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.

Boots is not shy of advertising itself - no less than four signs are visible here, two of them huge.