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Records of an iron and wire works here go back to the 16th century, and production continued until around the end the 19th century.

Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back.

Records of the existence of this street go back at least to the 15th century and it is known to have been used by travellers and pilgrims on their way to the Abbey.

One of these very similar views shows the town on a bright summer day with the road thronged with vehicles and the pavements, benches and sea wall busy with visitors enjoying the Cheshire sunshine and

In 1907 the Corporation cut a new thoroughfare across Newgate, demolishing the Circus and the old Hippodrome and linking Blackwater Street with the Esplanade.

Walton-on-Thames is another suburbanised town south-west of London along the River Thames.

This lovely building is at the southern end of the High Street, in the former market place where the High Street meets Worcester Road and St John`s Street.

The T-junction and the church are just ahead. Whalley had an abbey once, and that fact distracts from the importance of the church here.

The creeper-clad Dinorben Arms Hotel (left) and the Eleth Hotel provided good quality accommodation in the 1930s.

Horley is now firmly back in Surrey, but for some years prior to 1974 it, along with Gatwick Airport, was within Sussex.

Churchtown can trace its recorded history back to the Viking landings, but it is also true that the settlement will have been in existence before the outcasts from Ireland made their way ashore.

These opposing views of the town centre illustrate the character and quality of life in Aspley Guise.

We are looking back from Bath Square, with the General Post Office on the right.

Swindon - 'swine down' or 'pig hill' - is Wiltshire's largest settlement; it grew from the two villages of Old and New Swindon of about 2,000 inhabitants in 1900 to its present size of about

Performing daily at 3.30pm and 7.30pm were the Pier Pierrots.

There are records of millers in Neston dating back to 1672, and the Mostyn Estate map of 1814 indicates two windmills in the area, but one was demolished in 1822 following severe storm damage.

Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.

William Morris described Bibury as the most beautiful village in England, and it has charmed visitors throughout the ages with its quintessential Cotswold character and composition.

The shops behind the big lamp in the centre of the road are interesting.

The village shop (centre) does a good trade in cycle parts, but at certain times in the religious calendar, pilgrims arrive on foot from all over Europe.

In front of St Oswald's Church, the old market cross and bullring provide a central point for the delightful village of Askrigg.

17th- and 18th-century houses and cottages make Coxwold a delight to the eye.

Below, a shingle beach with patches of pea-grit provides a spot for rest and relaxation between Raffey's Ledge and the Mouth Rocks, where the River Char enters the sea.

The wide sweep of cobbles and double avenue of trees defines this characteristic view on entering the town from the west.