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Chirbury was the home of Lord Herbert, an Elizabethan philosopher, diplomat and keen historian.

In the tour guides of the period the Portland was 'well spoken of', with rooms from 3s 6d and lunch for 2s 6d.

Droitwich has a long history of salt production. The Romans mined Droitwich salt on a large scale, and this is the road they built running east from Droitwich through Feckenham to Alcester.

The Grange Hotel was built following the coming of the railway.

What was Broadwaters Lane led from the town centre as a continuation of the Horse Fair to meet the main road, where it became Chester Road.

The view shows the north side of the church, which dates from the late 12th century, and the fine Norman doorway. The 17th-century tower contains four bells.

Over the years the river has been something of a problem to this part of the town and the whole area was regularly flooded.

The Romford Golf Club, when it was founded, leased 90 acres of land from the Gidea Hall Estate.

This is another one of the ancient bridges that span these reaches of the River Wey. There are six in total: this one, two at Tilford, and one each at Elstead, Peper Harow and Unstead.

This photograph depicts a vanished way of life in the country. Horse- drawn wagons have brought in the straw from the fields.

This small village sits between the sea and fields of bright laven- der. At Caley Mill there is a lavender water distillery, and in late summer the fields shimmer with a deep blue.

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy Devon beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

The parish church of St Laurence is originally 12th-century with a 13th-century chancel.

Rhyl is famous for its great windy expanse of beach facing Liverpool Bay.

After 60 years on the throne, Queen Victoria did not have the strength to climb the steps of St Paul's Cathedral for her Jubilee thanksgiving service, so it was held outside.

Fleet Street had been 'the street of ink' ever since Caxton's assistant Wynkyn de Worde set up his press next to St Bride's Church in 1500.

William Wrenn had only just arrived in Alton when this picture of his shop, on the right, was taken.

Stanford's rectory was the birthplace in 1775 of the author and moralist Mrs Sherwood, whose novel 'The Fairchild Family' was a popular improving text with the more rigidly censorious readers of Regency

The curve of the river forces bargemen to make a skilful manoeuvre into the lock, which allows boats to travel past the weir.

Southwold Common stands between the town and the marshes, and is lined on its northern edge with a range of private dwellings.

The red sandstone parish church of St Mary was built by Roger Growdon and dedicated in 1450 by Bishop Lacey, whose name can still be seen on pub signs around Devon.

The flagpole still stands guard over the War Memorial and the flag is flown on appropriate occasions.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs. It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

Note the small monkey-puzzle tree in the foreground - this was one of the most popular of all exotic trees planted in parks in Victorian times.