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By the time that this photograph was taken, very little of Barry Castle remained.

The men standing at the door on the left are customers of the Lion Inn, which burned down on 8 November 1908 and was never rebuilt. The Congregational Chapel in the background was built in 1831.

To the right of Balliol College is the famous Martyrs' Memorial, commemorating the 16th-century Protestant martyrs Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer, who were burned at the stake in nearby Broad Street.

Tennyson knew and loved Haslemere and the Surrey hills. Aldworth, his former home, is in Lurgashall, Sussex, but close to Haslemere, along the now renamed Tennyson Lane.

Epping Forest, which now covers some 6,000 acres, was ten times larger in the 17th century.

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.

In 1698 the traveller Celia Fiennes noted that there was a considerable industry of cutting and burning the bracken on Cannock Chase.

St Andrew's is the mother church of Plymouth; there is evidence that a Christian community used the site as early as the 8th century. Construction of the present building commenced in 1370.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Exeter College was founded by one of Exeter's bishops in 1314, though most of the college buildings have been restored or rebuilt over the years.

Another well-known multi-national dominates this view; the branch has been here since about 1930, though the left-hand extension is a post-War development on the site of the Cinema de Luxe, which burned

This bustling view of Church Road with its bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles is dominated by the sadly- lamented old Town Hall, which burned down in 1966.

The notorious Judge Jeffries condemned her to be burned at the stake, but this sentence was commuted to beheading. She is buried in the nearby churchyard at Ellingham.

The Constitutional Club (far left) burned down in February 1910. The blaze also damaged Archer's ironmongers' shop next door (with a kettle for its trade-sign).

Perhaps Richmond's most handsome and unchanged cobbled street, Newbiggin means 'new settlement'; its level width suggests that it was planned as the town's original market place.

Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.

During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burning hayricks and destroying machinery.

If coal was burned in these houses, it had to be imported from the mainland.

Firstly, the Shaa family, who owned land here, produced two Mayors of London. Secondly, a local farmer called Thomas Higbed was burned at the stake in 1555, on a charge of heresy.

Tennyson knew and loved Haslemere and the Surrey Hills. Aldworth, his former home, is in Lurgashall, Sussex, but close to Haslemere, along the now renamed Tennyson Lane.

The lighthouse was designed by Samuel Watts and built by John Matson at a cost of £8000. It was first lit on 1 December 1806.