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Byworth is a very pretty village with a single winding street a mile east of Petworth; it is set on hilly ground above a small stream flowing in a steep valley towards the Rother.

Three air raid shelters are in the field in front of the church.

Chestnut trees were planted to soften the outline of the semi-circular area, and there were changing cubicles and two springboards. Mixed bathing (even for children) was forbidden.

Blackburn means 'on the black stream'.The town guards the entrances to the river valleys we have been looking at in earlier pages - the Ribble, the Hyndeburn and the Hodder - and was the starting

The first recorded wooden bridge was built here on the site of the original ford in the early 12th century.

It was built in 1816, and the story most often told is that it was erected by the duke's tenant farmers in thanks for having their rents remitted during a period of agricultural depression.

The church of St Mary was built in 1847. Balcombe House, once called Parsonage House, is a large Tudor-style house of 1856.

Loxwood is on the route of the partly-restored Wey and Arun canal near the Surrey border - 'London's lost route to the sea'. The church of St John the Baptist was built in 1898.

This prominent rock formation stands high up on the St Ives estate over the river; before the age of the car it was holiday treat to walk up here for the exercise and fresh air.

This tiny cathedral city stands above the confluence of the River Clwyd and its tributary the Elwy. The cathedral is the smallest in Britain.

The Bowness Ferry across the narrowest part of the lake was originally a hand-rowed operation.

Lakeside is the settlement furthest away from the Lakeland mountains, but it is historically important as the entry point for large numbers of Victorian day visitors who came up from Lancashire by way

Nothing could more illustrate the pace of change than this photograph of the Horse Fair in 1923. Not only is the event a distant memory, but there have been wholesale changes to the area.

The Victoria Buildings were built in the late 1880s and named in honour of Queen Victoria's fifty years on the throne.

The attractive village of Bromham is now bypassed, so the old bridge over the Great Ouse is mercifully much quieter than it was a few years ago.

The Cistercians, like the Knights Templar, were not noted for their standards of personal hygiene and rarely washed.

By this time, one of the houses has become a shop. The Red Lion on the left is now the Hobgoblin.

The Industrial Photographers on the left have taken over from Freeman Hardy and Willis's shoeshop.

The narrow road has gone, widened in the name of progress.

A Tudor fort sitting on top of Beblowe Crag, Lindisfarne was raised for defence against the Scots.

The promenade provides a curious facility that seems less user-friendly than we might expect today and is more akin to a stadium.

The wooden swing bridge appeared on maps in 1847.

The town became a thriving port, from which 200 vessels a year carried 265,000 tons of Forest of Dean coal.

Designed by J W Stansby (who also designed the tower of Christ Church), St Paul's was built in 1868-69 at the expense of the Grand Junction Railway Company. The spire was added in 1888.