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The salt industry both here and at Nantwich suffered as a result of the shelving of a scheme to open the rivers of these towns to navigation.

The southern end of Derby Haven is protected by St Michael's Island with its ruined chapel, Derby fort and battery.

The shops in the centre of Hawkshead are waiting for the tourists to arrive. The grey slate walls of the buildings and cobbled streets are typical of many Lakeland villages.

John of Milverton was created the English leader of the Carmelite Friars at a convention in Paris in 1456.

In this view of the Market Place, the vehicles in the car park are typical of the period, and the van in the centre probably came from RAF Chilmark nearby.

In the background is St Wilfred's, which was repaired in 1612 at the expense of Sir William Craven. The church houses an 11th-century font and some fragments of Anglo-Saxon sculpture.

East Cowes was once the more important of the two towns, though it has now been eclipsed by the sprawling town on the opposite side of the Medina.

Union Street was more fortunate than many of its neighbours and escaped the worst of the bombing. This view shows the tram tracks that spread along the city's main thoroughfares.

Paignton became fashionable with the arrival of the Singer family, who built Oldway Mansion in 1874.

Torpoint is actually in Cornwall, and its ferry still makes regular journeys across the Tamar, taking workers across to Devonport Dockyard and the City of Plymouth.

Paignton became fashionable with the arrival of the Singer family, who built Oldway Mansion in 1874.

As with so many towns to the west of London, Cranford lies on the old stagecoach route to the fashionable city of Bath.

The crypt at Canterbury dates from Norman times and is one of the cathedral's many treasures.

On the side of the house facing us is the date 1595. Behind the trees on the left is the church of St Michael. Note the fine example of thatching on the buildings in the foreground.

This fountain stood at the top of Monument Hill. It was erected in 1896 in memory of Henry Yool, a local benefactor and Vice-Chairman of the newly-formed Surrey County Council from 1889-92.

A small village just south of Devizes, Potterne still has some famous and wonderfully ancient buildings. It was once a manor of the Bishops of Salisbury.

Iona is of paramount importance as a Christian historical site, with an impressive legacy of Celtic and medieval buildings and monuments.

Castle Combe was once a centre for cloth weaving but now seems to trade on its picturesque qualities.

This is one of the three roads leading to the Market Place, shown at the far back of this view.

Immortalised in literature and art, and the subject of a thousand picture postcards, Lulworth Cove is at the top of everyone's sightseeing list for Dorset.

Another classic view of the Lake District. The pine-clad promontory of Friar's Crag near Keswick on Derwent Water is backed by the forested slopes of Walla Crag.

A quiet corner of the tiny village of Cark, where the River Eea flows under a low bridge into the sands of Morecambe Bay. Note the upturned cart by the bridge.

Cracoe is a small hamlet of mainly 17th- and 18th-century houses on the minor road between Skipton and Grassington.

This fine, four-arched bridge over the River Aire at Kildwick, between Keighley and Skipton, was built by the canons of Bolton Priory in the early 14th century.