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For his defence of Ogmore Castle against the Welsh, Arnold de Boteler was awarded the manor of Dunraven by William de Londres.

The next sequence of views shows the Victorian and later development of Sutton to the south of the railway line.

Outside it stands a row of watering cans on a sheet of corrugated iron balanced between two barrels. Farther along are more barrels and boxes.

Sad to say, the fine thatched house and barn have not survived; only the row of Rose Cottages stand today as a reminder of the tiny village of Wyddial.

It was originally dedicated to St Gwynllyw, a 5th-century warrior saint who established the first church on this site and is buried here.

As late as 1930, parts of the High Street at Berkhamsted were not fully made up; but with the increase of traffic on this main arterial road, it had one of the first junctions in Hertfordshire to become

We are looking down on The Square from Middle Row at the bottom of Broad Street. The shot is north-eastwards, along Bridge Street (centre) to the roofs of Coombe Street.

The small town of Watlington, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, used to be famous for its many inns.

Bucklers Hard and the Beaulieu River are now visited regularly by yachtsmen who are fond of the old anchorage.

The long main street of Dorchester probably established its present line at the time of the Romans, and has been used by travellers since.

This view shows the bridge over the Cam Beck at the top end of Ketttlewell, a charming village in the heart of Upper Wharfedale.

The elegant Abbey Crescent was built in 1858 in anticipation of the opening of the nearby railway station the following year.

Thirteen years before this photograph of Sandhurst was taken, the village police station was completed in memory of some of Sandhurst's older residents.

The cobbled surface is clearly visible with the rails of the horse tram curving away sharply to the left. The large scale of many of Belfast's buildings is also apparent.

A splendid variety of architecture, ranging from medieval through Georgian to Victorian, greets the visitor to Dorchester.

Also situated north of the town and at one time also called the Lions' Den, these sandstone caves were once a feature of The Plot, an area of common grazing land.

Thirteen years before this photograph of Sandhurst was taken, the village police station was completed in memory of some of Sandhurst's older residents.

East of Marlow, where the river bends south, Townsend's and Shaw's boatyards and their wharves were a focus of boating activity in the heyday of the late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom.

Roger de Berkeley, the first tenant after the Conquest, was probably responsible for the construction of the first castle on the site, and we know that Henry II was entertained here over Easter in 1121

The popularity of the north coast beaches and the advent of mass tourism led to the stretch of coastline between Rhyl and Colwyn Bay being almost totally occupied with caravan sites, amusement arcades,

This somewhat featureless shopping centre has developed to the north of the Tally Ho pub and Tally Ho corner, which can be seen as a multi-gabled vista stopper in this photograph.

This high-powered, very low frequency telegraph transmitter is capable of world-wide range. Erection of the masts commenced in 1924 on a site chosen by the Air Ministry and the War Office.

Above the cliffs we can just see the Park Hotel, built as a terrace of three houses, part of a larger development of North Cliff which never materialised.

Today, we feel that when Louis de Soissions designed the layout of the Garden City, he underestimated the impact of the motor car.