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The afternoon tea dances held here were very popular, and visitors could dance in the flower-filled pavilion below its clusters of hanging baskets.

This pair of windmills stand on Outwood Common: a post mill with four double-shuttered spring sails and a roundhouse protecting the trestle, and also a tall weatherboarded smock mill.

This delightful rambling village acquired its name from the Saxon king Ehta, or Otha's settlement. But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.

Immediately south-east of Lingfield lies the race course, founded in 1890, and beyond that is the next station on the railway line, Dormans.

East of Redhill, on the A25, Nutfield is still heavy with traffic, despite the M25 by- passing it to the north.

The village sits high above the flood plain of the Medway. This peaceful scene shows the 14th-century five-arched ragstone bridge, which is considered by some to be the finest in the south-east.

The gardens for the Prospect Hotel (rebuilt in 1870) on the corner used to extend down to the road and over the site of the memorial.

To the west of Old Quad (above, 72159) lies Old Big School, surmounted by School House dormitories.

Whalley means 'the clearing or field by the hill', and we can see how close the hill, known as Whalley Nab, is from our photograph.

In 1451, Bishop Bekynton commissioned his 'New Works', which included the Dean's Eye, or Browne's Gate, built in 1453, which connected the cathedral precinct with the city.

The Avebury Stone Circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.

Here we see the buckthorn-covered dunes in the Park or Jungle; we are looking towards Roman Bank, with bits of the main footpath visible through the trees.

The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road.

The Lloyds Bank building on the right has been renovated, though the exterior is similar. The Crown to the right of it is now a building society.

Immediately east of Wicksteed Park, on the higher ground above the River Ise, Barton Seagrave has a small core of stone-built houses and cottages and a good Norman church around a triangular green.

They were the traditional enemies of Cromer men, who referred to them disparagingly as 'Shaddocks'. Nets were regularly cut and battles fought.

A lace maker works at a floral sprig of Honiton lace outside her cottage door at Beer in South Devon.

The process involved in loading or unloading ships can be seen clearly here. Cargo is off-loaded from and to horse-driven wagons along wooden gullies directly from and into the hold of the vessel.

Outside the Higher Clovelly post office, postman Roy Fisher accepts the sacks of local post from the Bideford van.

The process involved in loading or unloading ships can be seen clearly here. Cargo is off-loaded from and to horse-driven wagons along wooden gullies directly from and into the hold of the vessel.

In this carefully composed picture we see the lower part of the village. The two men, one holding the horse and one with his dog, are everything a photographer could want in a village scene.

In the distance a crowd gather to be entertained – could it be minstrels or a Punch and Judy show? A little closer, a group of donkeys await their rides.

This is a view from the south-east, and shows the Ladies' Gate on the right and the bowed fernery on the left. The brickwork of the original windmill can be seen on the Round Tower.

Even so, it is possible to linger in the middle of the road - not a pastime to be indulged in on summer days in the 21st century.