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Both Bute East and West docks neared closure. West finally succumbed in 1964 with East surviving a further six years.

Although fragments of the Norman abbey remain, the present abbey church dates from 1499, and was a prodigiously long time a-building: the nave was still roofless into the 17th century.

A Panorama south-eastwards across Allington hamlet and West Allington street to the Rope Works, St Michael`s Works and Priors Mills (middle distance, left).

This view from Caversham Heights, north-west of the village centre, gives a good impression of the scale of Reading in the Edwardian period and before Caversham itself expanded far to its north and

Without through traffic, this 1000-year-old village retains its rural traditions and sense of history. A century ago, West Burton was a lively farming village with a market and many shops.

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

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.

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.

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.

Hinckley and the South-West

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

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.

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

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

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.

Walton-on-Thames is another suburbanised town south-west of London along the River Thames.

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.

To the west of Old Quad (above, 72159) lies Old Big School, surmounted by School House dormitories.

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.

West of Dorking up on the chalk and just inboard of the North Downs escarpment, and west of the valley cut by the River Mole, is Ranmore Common.

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

With a plan based on its Roman predecessor, Noviomagus, this fine walled city is divided into quarters by North, South, East and West Streets, which all meet at the splendid Market Cross in the centre