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Askrigg was already prosperous when the Domesday book was compiled, and continued as the commercial and industrial centre of Upper Wensleydale until 1699, when Hawes was granted a market charter.

Granted a market charter by William III, Hawes later became a centre for textiles, quarrying and the production of Wensleydale cheese.

The seat of the Courtenays, the Earls of Devon, Powderham Castle was first built on this site in the late 14th century.

Said to be one of the finest town churches in Kent, the parish church is built of Kentish ragstone and has an impressive interior.

The Kettle Brook 1898 A short walk from The Harrow pub at Steep brings you to this delightful spot at the heart of hilly East Hampshire, sometimes described as 'Little Switzerland'.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman doctor of medicine, became first woman mayor of an English borough when she took up office in Aldeburgh in 1908.

This small fen town was originally built on an island surrounded by seasonal sheep-walks. Even as late as the early 17th century, there was no road linking Chatteris with Ely.

Hadleigh, in past times a significant wool town, sits alongside a tributary of the Stour.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the River Bure from the village street. Here are handsome pantile-roofed red brick houses. A rotted hulk squats in a narrow inlet.

Plymouth and Devonport were served by a number of ferries, including these wonderful steam-powered, chain-guided floating bridges on the Torpoint service, which were capable of carrying wheeled vehicles

The railway finally came to the village in 1902 with the opening of a line to Skipton. Here we see a quiet moment on the banks of the Wharfe.

The golf club was established in 1905, on parkland set high above Cardigan Bay.

A few children are paddling in the sea, but there no swimmers, although rows of bathing machines are set up along the shore.

A motor dinghy carries a boatload of adults and children past the pumping mill at Martham Staithe.

'It is fitting that Balliol, the most progressive of our colleges, should have so large a proportion of its buildings modern', wrote Dr Wells in 1897.

This tight-knit village is built along a grid of narrow winding lanes with a fair bit of modern development - but it retains its attractive character.

Reaching the top of Steep Hill, the photographer looks west from Exchequer Gate, the medieval gatehouse into the cathedral close, towards the Castle gatehouse.

This is part of the riverside group of medieval buildings which also includes the Witch and the Wardrobe, which is next door.

There were also a stream and small pools here, which were eventually covered in to form part of the sewer.

For the 1920s, an assembly this size of private motorcars was unusual. I suspect that the reason was an event at the nearby Clifton Arms Hotel.

The Plantation and Madeira Walk below The Beacon and Louisa Terrace are a delightful stretch of green wooded shelter on hot days.

This is the same view as on pages 12-13, in the mid 1950s. The Hitchin Playhouse has been replaced by Burtons tailors, the first floor of which houses the Lucania Temperance Billiards Hall.

Botley Station (entrance on the left of the photograph), which is approached via Mill Hill, is well outside the village. One descends to it from a road bridge.

Built in the 13th century, and later part of the property of Anne Boleyn's family, Hever was rescued from obscurity by William Waldorf Astor, who bought it in 1903 and spent a fortune restoring it to its