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The iron bridge (demolished in 1978) brought the line from Exeter, and did not run parallel to the road bridge.

Much of this view looking west from the pier is now dry land occupied by the west part of Adventure Island, while Never Never Land lies amid the now much thinned trees on the right.

Situated on the south-west side of the village, the church was heavily restored by Frederick Peck of Maidstone in 1872.

In a well-treed setting, the church is seen from the west. This small elevated village lies about a mile to the north-east of Melton Mowbray on the A607 Grantham road.

West Horndon is a planned village dating only from the 1940s. Before that, it had been a sparsely-inhabited parish, whose medieval church had collapsed by the early 18th century.

To the west lies the village centre and the partly Norman church of All Saints. The First World War poet Edward Thomas lived at nearby Berryfield Cottage.

Designed by Wilson and Wilcox, its ponderous late Georgian style had the side wings topped by Frenchified pavilion roofs.

The church, dedicated to St Cuthbert, was designed by John Dobson and built between 1826 and 1828.

This is a detail of the frontage of 34 West Street, which was the 'Bridport News' office and West Dorset Printing Works in 1909.

The esplanade and suburban seaside at West Bay rise to the west (left).

The west front of Lichfield Cathedral dates from the Decorated period, but most of this amazing display of sculpture is Victorian – only five statues high up on the north-west tower are original.

Hinckley and the South-West

Wells Cathedral was begun in the 1180s and finished in the 1230s; its glory is its magnificent west front, surely the finest in the country, which has over 400 carved figures in its niches.

The west towers are built outside the line of the side aisles, making the façade twice as wide as it is high. The carvings on the west front date from about 1230.

Today, it is still almost entirely enclosed by water - the English Channel lies to the south-east and south-west, Pagham Harbour to the north-east, and a brook, known as the Broad Rife, to the north-west

Though the west tower with its distinctive recessed spire is said to contain masonry older than Roche Abbey, the rest of St Bartholomew's dates from 1859, when it was rebuilt to a design by P Boyce.

Looking West This view looks down Commercial Road towards the old market site.

The arrival of the railway one mile away, sealed the fate of West Liss.

According to Nikolaus Pevsner, the original design was spoilt by the addition of an arched window to the west of the Venetian windows, and the small west tower.

This is a detail of the frontage of 34 West Street, which was the `Bridport News` office and West Dorset Printing Works in 1909.

This photograph shows the crowded Promenade the year before the outbreak of war, and looks west to the pier pavilion and the tall buildings of the esplanade.

This view looks west with the Red House (left) in front of and next to Lorne House and West Deyne, the school boarding houses.

This splendid Perpendicular church at Seend, near Devizes, is ashlar-faced; there are gargoyles, battlements and pinnacles, and a squat west tower.

West of the town centre, Mill Street climbs uphill to West Street and remains little altered since the 1950s, although the bus stop has gone.