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The Abbey was originally a preceptory of the Knights Templar, and is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

He took large advertisements in emerging newspapers and printed his prices openly.

Now let out as 'honeymoon cottages' (fully booked for Valentine's Day 2003), they have a new lease of life.

On the other side of the road is the church of St Andrew the Great, which contains a monument to the explorer Captain Cook, along with the graves of his widow and two sons, the younger of whom attended

On the other side of the road is the church of St Andrew the Great, which contains a monument to the explorer Captain Cook, along with the graves of his widow and two sons, the younger of whom attended

Listed in the Domesday Book as 'Eleacier', the town's name tells us that this was once 'Aelle's field or ploughed land'.

At the cutting edge of equal opportunities, even in the 19th century, the women of Looe, as well as looking after the children, cooking, washing and everything else, were expected to assist with loading

Those who wanted an inexpensive holiday could book into Seaburn Camp, which even as late as 1960 looked like a German Stalag with flowerbeds.

Though camping was already enjoyed, Baden-Powell's book 'Scouting for boys' was published in the same year, and may have increased its popularity.

It was erected in 1907 as a memorial to M J B Baddeley, whose guide books were greatly esteemed at that time and for much of the earlier part of the 20th century.

When the author was researching this book (2004), the road (the A631) was almost non-existent as large road works were taking place, which were due for completion by the spring.

time, there is not as much smoke coming from the dwelling houses along the Crag (which lies behind the houses on the river front), but there is still enough to show that dinner was being cooked

An account of his childhood years, his book charts the changes in this rural settlement during the 1920s, including the death of the last squire, who lived at the 18th-century house called Steanbridge.

The famous Len's specialist railway book and model shop was situated here in a ramshackle building, precariously poised above the pit. It was one of my frequent haunts in school lunch hours.

Some old guide-books claim that the name derives from the sloe (or blackthorn) tree, but it more likely comes from 'slough', meaning a muddy place.

The 19th-century author Charles Kingsley was passionately fond of Devon; Rose of Torridge and the Brotherhood of the Rose feature in his best-known book, 'Westward Ho!'

Many of the characters that feature in his books are thought to have been inspired by the strange carvings within the church.

Colaton dates from at least Saxon times, and it was a royal manor at the time of the Domesday Book.

The Esplanade Hotel, on the right-hand end of the terrace, had incorporated the neighbouring Gould's Hotel by the 1920s, when a guide book described it as 'a well- appointed and comfortable

Above Nobletts Chocolates we have the Victoria Commercial Hotel (established 1269) which, given its great age, was conspicuous by its absence from late 19th and early 20th-century guide books for overseas

The pub became especially well-known for its home-cooked hams. The war memorial—with Greek maiden and her once fully-operational electric torch—had been erected in 1922.

Two doors up there are postcards outside the stationer, book- seller and Athenaeum Library of Evans Harrison.

Nestled in the rear slopes of the North Downs, the village derives its ancient name from the Saxon word 'wudmeresthorn', meaning 'thornbush by the boundary of the wood', and was mentioned in the Domesday Book

In the Domesday Book the village was mentioned as 'Bodetone', meaning 'the dwelling house of Botl'. It was 1706 before the name became what it is today, a common old England name.