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Before the arrival of the railway, Middleton One Row was aptly named; it consisted of just one row of Georgian cottages.

Pilton is famed for its pop festivals, which started in 1970. Its crossroads was known as Conduit Square because of an underground drainage system.

A branch of the famed family lived nearby for over 400 years from 1490; round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester was one member.

Henry VIII came here with Anne Boleyn.

At Wadebridge the Camel is so fast-flowing that it is said that there were once chapels on each bank by the ford where travellers prayed for a safe crossing.

By the time this photograph was taken, it had become a favourite amusement for tourists, who came to glimpse the awful conditions that the convicts would have lived in.

Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities. Some, such as Lady Nelson, widow of the Admiral, never left. She lies buried in the churchyard at nearby Littleham.

New varieties of fruit trees changed the character of traditional orchards, and a few free-ranging chickens came to be regarded as an uneconomic anachronism.

Prosperity came to Warrington along with industry in the 1800s, and this is reflected in the quality of all the town's commercial buildings.

The bus station was built on the site where the amusement fairs used to set up when they came to town.

This little town, on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border, has been famed for its potteries since Roman times. Coal mining and quarrying also sustained the population.

Until a by-pass came in 1990, it carried both the A36 and A361. In 1927 a recreation ground was built at the end of the road to keep children from the heavy traffic.

Some of the visitors who enjoyed a stroll through the village streets came from the nearby Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp.

As we look from inside the city walls through the arch to St Dunstan's Street, we can see the route taken by Henry II when he came as a penitent after the murder of Thomas Becket in 1174, and by Henry

In 1838 Queen Victoria came to drink the waters. She was received by Dr Henry Jephson, an outstanding surgeon in his day and also the man responsible for planning much of the town.

Farmers and merchants came from miles around to do their business here, and there were enough of them to support several inns.

Beer is famed for its quarries, which were worked by the Romans and have continued in use down the years. The stone was used extensively for the arcades of many Devon churches.

on the edge of Hainault forest, has been much developed over the years, but the village still presents a deceptively leafy appearance.The bakery and tea-rooms are reminders that many Londoners came

Much of the money for the gallery came from wealthy glass manufacturer Thomas Osler, whose firm made the famous glass fountain centrepiece for the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace.The clock

However, various benefactors eventually came to the rescue, enabling the work to be completed.

The railway finally came to the village in 1902 with the opening of a line to Skipton. Here we see a quiet moment on the banks of the Wharfe.

The centre of Wollaston is often referred to as Wollaston Junction, recalling the time when two tram routes met here - one came from Stourbridge, and the other was the Amblecote to Kinver

Axminster is famed for its carpet business, founded in 1755 by Thomas Whitty. Manufacture ceased in 1835 but began again in 1937.

Despite its fame as a fishing port from the Middle Ages onwards, people have lived around Brixham for some half a million years.