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This, the original hamlet on the shore, consisted of fishermen's cottages and the Ship and Nimrod Inns. Henry Pease was said to have had a vision of 'a town arisen on the edge of a cliff'.

This scene, showing the loading of a hay wagon on the shores of Buttermere, with Honister Crag and Fleetwith Pike prominent in the background, demonstrates that timeless way of life.

This scene, showing the loading of a hay wagon on the shores of Buttermere, with Honister Crag and Fleetwith Pike prominent in the background, demonstrates that timeless way of life.

A deep-sea diver, William Walker, was employed to go deep into the marshy water beneath and shore up the building.

The pines of Crag Wood are prominent in the centre of the photograph, while the slopes of Dodd sweep up the lake shore beyond.

This scene, showing the loading of a hay wagon on the shores of Buttermere, with Honister Crag and Fleetwith Pike prominent in the background, demonstrates that timeless way of life.

This popular sea town sits on the western shore of the Roseland promontory under its castle.

This view of East Cliff, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach, and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character

An ancient rhyme runs: 'The two great Cows that in loud thunder roar, This on the eastern, that the western shore, Where Newport enters stately Wight'”.

Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.

Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.

The artificial lake occupies land formerly lapped by the sea before the railway cut it off from the shore. The houses were then just above the shoreline.

This view looks south-east across the Mawddach estuary saltings towards the village, which lies on the south shore. The great bulk of Cadair Idris rises behind it.

The opposite shore carries the railway, built in 1846-8 by Brunel, who had originally wanted to run it across the mouth of the river.

Rock is now a very popular resort for dinghy sailors on the north shore of the Camel estuary, which is seen behind at high tide.

Before this, the river frontage would have been largely open to the shore.

Here we see the 1891 Town Hall with its tottering facade shored up. A year later, in 1956, it received its present insipid Neo-Georgian frontage.

Freshly boiled shrimps were sold in the cottages at South Shore—the visitors loved sea food—but supplies were dwindling by the 1920s.

Porthleven's large harbour was built in 1811 to load copper and tin; it is an important haven on the exposed east shore of Mount's Bay.

Portchester Castle was built by the Romans to defend the English Channel from raiding Saxons and is one of the largest of the 'Saxon shore' forts.

Taken from the south shore, this view features two attractive clinker-built rowing boats still afloat as the tide streams out.

This main street runs parallel to the shore, and displays many of the late 19th-century shops that accompanied its development as a resort during that period.

These elegant Scots pines on the shores of Buttermere are among the most photographed of any in the Lake District. However, this Frith scene must be one of the earliest photographs of them.

Beneath the castle, the outer suburbs stretch along the shore of the lough.