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The village of Muker, set toward the western end of the dale, dates back to 1274. After a chapel of ease was built here in 1580, the delightfully named Corpse Way gradually fell into disuse.

Looking eastwards along Church Street from Magnolias, across the River Bride, in a sylvan setting beside a clapper bridge next to the village school.

The house which forms the angle with Chapel Street on the left is pre-17th-century, lately repainted and rethatched.

In thirty years, this scene would be reinterpreted to become the Broadway. Gone would be the village pump, the pond and the water splash.

Along Padleys Lane, which curves north out of the village amid 1950s and later estate houses, we pass Burton Joyce Primary School.

The village green complete with its old water pump is surrounded by 17th century timber-framed cottages, such as Foliots on the left, 19th century estate cottages and an old school.

Twinned with Agincourt, Middleham today is a major centre for racehorse breeding and training - 300 horses are stabled around the village.

Large mansions were built here for the wealthy merchants from the prosperous port of Hull. Ferriby House dates from 1775, and both Ferriby Hall and the manor house still stand.

A little further south, the photographer looks past The Old Cottage, on the west or left side of the High Street, towards the rendered and jettied mid 16th-century Tudor House with the carved bargeboards

This is what children of all ages like best: fishing about in the rock pools at low tide.

Paignton's beaches and coves give a combined sea-frontage of over two miles; this led to the growth of the town's satellite villages of Preston and Goodrington.

The poet and biographer William Hayley lived in the Turret. In 1800 he invited his poet friend William Blake to come and live in the village, where he stayed for four years.

This photograph was taken about five years after R353020 (pages 62-63) and further down the hill towards the centre of Rockingham.

The fine Perpendicular windows have exceptionally beautiful tracery and were added in about 1450, but their glass was shattered by a flying bomb which landed in the churchyard in 1944.

North-east of the village and north of the A415 Abingdon Road is a large complex of austere Gothic- style buildings. This is now the European School, and not much softened with age.

While the village lads pose for the camera and the girls stroll nonchalantly by on the other side, a `bullnose` Morris overtakes a horse and cart.

This photograph was taken in the other direction to H277056 (page 35), looking east along Market Street.

Lying in the tranquil Rye valley two miles west of Hemsley, this is the first Cistercian monastery in the North of England.

Water flows through the village from Semerwater 2 miles away, via the country's shortest river, the Bain. Here, next to the Ure, are mill cottages.

The half-timbered, mock-Tudor frontage of the Three Greyhounds Hotel on the left faces the more modest frontage of the Crown Hotel opposite.

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

Moorland sheep scatter in front of the Goathland Hotel in the pretty North York Moors village of Goathland.

Closely-packed village houses built almost entirely of slate enclose a small cobbled courtyard. The youngest to oldest inhabitants are represented here.

Another view of Low Row, showing the Post Office and the Methodist Chapel on the right.