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Supplies came by sea to Poole Harbour and then by road from Hamworthy to Wimborne.

The Institute was originally the local reading room, where people came to read books and newspapers. It was the first place of adult education in Grange.

The chapel is famed for its pillar of entwined ribbands. The story is that the chief stonemason went to Italy to study a similar pillar.

This is the birthplace of the celebrated 20th-century actress, Dame Sybil Thorndike. Little has changed here over the years, despite the growth of the paper mill.

Alfred Watkins, the man who came up with the idea of ley lines, claimed that churches were sometimes built deliberately on ancient tracks, with tunnels provided for travellers to pass through.

Whit Monday crowds came thick and fast. The press of humanity on beach and pier proved the boast of the Council: 'Blackpool will not be left behind in any respect'.

Well placed to attract passing motorists, it also served the visitors who came to enjoy a day on the shore, where a fine sandy beach borders the sea.

The first people to live here built their houses from mud (the area later became an important centre for brick production), so that Lye came to be known as the 'Mud City'.

It obviously came from the temple pediment, and is now in the British Museum.

Much of the woodwork came from old ships' timbers - this was at a time when newer wood was taken for the building of warships.

The town's growth came from the nearby coal mines - they are now closed. The most noted industry now is the well-known Ibstock brick company, which sells to customers world-wide.

An ancient village, Wolviston lies close to Wynyard Hall, historically the family home of the Londonderry dynasty, whose fortune came from the ownership of several collieries and a port in County Durham

Unfortunately, the apparent care taken in its preservation came to nought when it eventually succumbed to honey fungus.

In 1930 the Ecclesall Union Hospital came under local government control and was renamed Nether Edge.

The village's name was originally spelt Cranley.

Donkeys were used to transport everything up and down Clovelly's steep street: herring, coal and lime came up the hill from the harbour, along with tourists who could not face the walk, while mail and

The George Hotel, here on the right, offered popular accommodation to Victorian visitors and those who came this way throughout the 20th century.

When the railway came to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 it signalled the town's rapid expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.

Its steep banks and overhanging trees would have provided protection for travellers when the winter storms came.

Demolition came in 1962 and the site was used for Wells Court and Wells Mews.

It passed into the hands of the Neville family, and Richard came here to be tutored by the Earl of Warwick, whose daughter Anne he later married.

It is thought that their stone came from buildings in Gold Street which were demolished in 1887.

Then came James Juby, tailor, and Garrards, wine merchants. On the corner was the Provincial Co-operative Drug Co (centre), and next was the Barley Mow tavern run by William Ellis.

The main imports of lime and coal declined after the railway came to Camelford in 1893. The Profile Rock on the headland was said to resemble Queen Victoria's head!