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It was in one of the houses here that William Withering was born in 1741.

The church of St Martin le Tours, on the right, was consecrated in 1962.

The Victorian Church of All Saints in Harnham was built in 1854 and dedicated to the memory of a former Dean of Salisbury Cathedral.

As the High Street runs down toward the medieval town wall gate and through to the harbour, the influence of Robert Wynn's Plas Mawr can be seen in the transomed stone mullions of the Castle

Visible evidence of medieval Sultan is sparse, but remnants of the castle motte survive to the west of the parish church.

At the east end of the Parade, by the last slipway, is the Island Sailing Club (left), which was founded in 1889, and is amongst the largest in the world.

Built of red brick, the church of St James the Apostle was erected in 1881 with seating for 250 parishioners.

A most interesting architectural feature of the church of St James the Elder at Llanvetherine is the tower.

This view is from the balcony of Knight's Croft, the home of Peter Morgan, who enjoys one of Dorset's classic views.

The roack gardens were given in 1932 by Henry Parkinson, a founder member of Accrington Historical Association, in memory of his grandfather, also named Henry Parkinson.

Boulters Lock is probably the most famous lock on the Thames, and was the first and the lowest on the river of the first set of eight to be built under the legislation of 1770.

The new library and mayoral suite were seen as the first phase of a new block of civic buildings, though in fact it was another 30 years before the rest of the site - the Civic Centre and Civic

Tantallon was a stronghold of the Douglases, a powerful family who were wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway, and by the end of the 15th century masters of much of Lothian, Stirlingshire and

Chesham also developed north of the town centre along the valleys and ridges in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the northern part being named Newtown.

The lines of parked vehicles on both sides of the road tend to detract from the architectural riches of the fine Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings that adorn this spacious street; they are evidence

This 13th-century castle, home of the Comyn family, is built in the form of a square, with round towers at the corners.

This was built for the twelfth Earl of Eglinton by John Patterson of Edinburgh in c1798.

This steep-roofed brick building with rather a Gothic flavour, designed by G E Street, replaced a block of fives courts.

Balsham was the site of a bloody battle in 1010. Local legend says that the only survivor of the massacre hid in the tower of the parish church of Holy Trinity.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

The elevated entrance to the Queen's Gate was due to the fact that behind it lay the motte of the 11th-century castle built by Hugh de Lupus, Earl of Chester.

The Mother Church of Nottingham has the appearance, if not the stature, of a cathedral. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the present building dates from the fifteenth century.

At the junction of Common Road and Slough Road, two College schoolboys, one carrying a cricket bat over his right shoulder, are seen walking past the 'Burning Bush'.

Potton's market existed at the beginning of the 13th century, and the town owes much of its present layout to that period. In the early 1900s a count revealed the existence of 32 alehouses.