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n Victorian times Dorking was still a very rural town with a wide market place in the centre. The shops displayed their wares to the elements.

n Victorian times Dorking was still a very rural town with a wide market place in the centre. The shops displayed their wares to the elements.

By the time this photograph was taken, Crowthorne was firmly established as a community, though the centre of the village really only dates back to the 1860s.

Dunham Mill dates back to the medieval period; it was one of only a handful of mills in this part of Cheshire.

The boating lake covered 30 acres. The smaller lake, for younger children, was separated from the larger one by a hump-backed bridge (K13007, pages 76-77).

In the distance is the parish church of St Wilfred's, which is noted for its Norse hog-back gravestones and a Norse font dating from the 11th century.

This was the main road through the village, before the advent of by-passes; we are looking back in the direction of Blackwater. This was the A327.

When this photograph was taken, the richly pargetted Ancient House, which dates back to medieval times, was occupied by Fred Pawsey, selling books and stationery.

Empty barges waiting to be towed back down the river are tied up at the embankment alongside the Portsmouth Road where it becomes the High Street.

Slough dates back to the 12th century, when it was a hamlet on the London to Bath road. The settlement later spread to the neighbouring parish of Stoke Poges.

On our way back to Camberley we arrive at the Dukes Head public house. Notice the telegraph poles supplying the new telephone system to those who could afford it.

The boating lake covered 30 acres. The smaller lake, for younger children, was separated from the larger one by a hump-backed bridge (K13007, pages 76-77).

Back Beach was the fiefdom of William Curtis & Sons, boatmen and fish merchants from nearby Long Entry on Church Cliffs. The spot was locally known as Curtis Cove.

The parish church dates back to the 14th century, with 16th-century additions from when the simple old building was enlarged.

Looking back across the bridge towards Salutation Square. The Cavendish County Theatre to the right has since been demolished and this area is now the site of the new County Offices.

This photograph was taken back in the days when an open space in a town did not have to be completely covered by cars! The Angel Hotel was immortalised in Dickens `Pickwick Papers`.

Slough dates back to the 12th century, when it was a hamlet on the London to Bath road. The settlement later spread to the neighbouring parish of Stoke Poges.

The photographer moved back down the road and caught the colonnade of shops, one of Hawkhurst's best known features; this is an early 19th-century shopping arcade with weatherboarded houses and cast-iron

Time stands still on a summer's afternoon, with houses going back four hundred years placed all around the square. The market is still held here, and buyers and sellers come in from miles around.

Boroughbridge, to the southeast of Ripon, dates back to Norman times, when a bridge was constructed over the Ure. It was then known as Burgbridge, the borough on the bridge.

St Mary's Butts is in the centre of Reading. The chequerboard flint and limestone tower of the church of St Mary's is a distinctive local landmark.

Dating back to the 18th century, the deed to each of these cottages restircts the householder to replacing the roof only with thatch, and further prescribes the method and colour of redecoration that may

Enjoying a stroll along the riverside path beside the Stour. Not far from here are some half-timbered houses dating back to the time when Sudbury was one of the most important weaving towns.

This view looks towards Back Road West. (St Ives' streets were often named with commendable simplicity).