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The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

Built on a 1660s terrace, today's Cliveden is a Victorian mansion by Sir Charles Barry, one of the architects of the Houses of Parliament.

This perfect little town, the capital of the Kentish Weald, was formerly a centre of cloth weaving.

The ancient town of Rye was built on a sandstone rock at the confluence of the Tillington and Rother rivers.

The 15th-century Perpendicular west tower of the Church of the Holy Cross is remarkable for the three sculptures of heraldic lions, which crouch at the corners of the battlements.

A splendid panoramic view, taken early in the year, of the Stour Valley looking across to the Julliberrie Downs, with the 14th-century tower of Chartham church rising above the trees.

Looking South This photograph shows the wide carriageway of Cricklade Road leading to Stratton Crossroads, with the junction of Beechcroft Road to the left and Whitworth Road to the right.

His carriage has stopped near the summit of one of the most famous of the Lake District passes. It connects Troutbeck with Patterdale.

Described in 1890 as a 'handsome modern thoroughfare', Corporation Street was the result of a massive redevelopment of 93 acres of slums.

This view, taken from an upper floor window of the execrable Empire Hotel, looks beyond the Parade Gardens, laid out in the 1880s, to North Parade, a long 'palace front' of twenty-five bays with a central

The statue of Joseph Pease stands guard over the entrance to Northgate.

This view was photographed from the tower of the Westgate.

An overview of Ludham from the tower of St Catherine's Church shows the well-wooded, rich agricultural land surrounding the village before many of the hedges had been removed.

In a road of rather mundane buildings is the Palace Theatre, a remarkable building designed in a Moorish style by the Robert Adam of theatre design, Frank Matcham, for Moss Empires in 1901, with a seating

During the summer months there is a good service of steamboats between this interesting watering-place and London. Shakespeare's Cliff commands a broad view of the shores of France.

In the distance, the graceful Portland stone spire of St Mary le Bow soars sublimely over the City. It was the most expensive of Wren's refurbishments, costing £15,400.

In 1838 there was a grat conflagration which began in the rooms of Lloyd's coffee-house. Thousands of tons of masonry fell and the old Royal Exhange was destroyed.

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machicolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

Of the great Benedictine Abbey of St Mary in Abingdon little survives above ground.

Henry II's great keep stands high above the mural towers of the inner bailey. It was under Henry and his son Richard I that Dover was transformed into one of the greatest fortresses in the kingdom.

Brecon is a well-manicured town on the River Usk with a smart range of buildings, mainly of the Georgian and Victorian periods, as we can see here.

Though he was the nephew of King Stephen, Hugh was a Prince-Bishop in the true sense of the word.

The pub occupies a picturesque setting on the crown of the hill, and is named after the leader of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

Very close to Junction 19 on the M1 motorway, the village is unremarkable.