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Here the Burn winds its way through lavender-covered salt marshes to the sea; here the sand dunes stretch away to Holkham in the east and Scolt Head island to the west.

When lead was discovered in Weardale, the mining rights were granted to the bishops of Durham; by the 13th century, mining, smelting and charcoal burning and so on were on a large scale for the period.

It did not, however, stop them from burning it to the ground in 1215 and 1217.

Tyre burning polluted the reservoir in 1975 and it has not been used for drinking water since.

Burne-Jones (1833-1898), a frequent visitor to the manor, is said to have painted a piano there.

Note the building and heaps of lime in the foreground of the picture - Middleton Dale was once the site of many lime-burning kilns.

The factory burned down in 1963.

As Bishop of London during the reign of Mary Tudor, he earned the name 'Bloody Bonner' for his part in sending so many Protestants to be burned at the stake.

Further up the road is the Victorian parish church, which replaced one of 1791 which itself replaced the medieval one, apparently burned down in the Civil War.

The church's most famous vicar was John Frankish, one of the martyrs of 1555 burned at the stake in Canterbury.

This could have come from pyres on which bodies were placed, or perhaps from burning autumn stubble.

Famous as the birthplace of John Macadam in 1756 and of Robert Burns in 1759, Ayr was founded under a charter granted by William the Lion.

The Scots failed, but for centuries afterwards traces of the burning could still be seen.

Mercifully, some might say, it burned down in 1926.

A quay has been constructed in front of Quay House on the left, where there appears to be a good fire burning in the grate.

Following the burning of Rye in 1377 and of Winchelsea in 1380, Bodiam Castle was built in 1385 because of the imminent threat of invasion by the French.

They failed, but for centuries afterwards the traces of the burning could still be seen.

In case of fire, there were very long rakes which could remove the burning roof.

The Blue Pool at Furzebrook, the best known of Purbeck's former heathland claypits was dug by Watts, Hatherley and Burns of Newton Abbot, in 1846.

Edinburgh fell, Holyrood was burnt.

The stained glass chancel window of the four evangelists is by Burne Jones, and executed by William Morris & Co.

The halfpenny toll on the original Blackfriars Bridge caused riots, and in 1780 angry protesters burned down the toll-house.After a succession of expensive repairs a replacement was suggested, and

The Scots failed, but for centuries afterwards traces of the burning could still be seen.

In 1689 most of the town was again burned to the ground when another fire swept through it.