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Just a few years later, Christchurch Mansion was built on the site of the 12th century priory of the Holy Trinity.

Apart from the railway and asylum, the erection of any additional buildings was hampered by a settlement clause in Warden Sergison's will.

Gatwick remains in Sussex, but Horley north of the River Mole was returned to Surrey. However, this brief selection of views of Horley are included in this book.

Although it is ten miles from the sea on what is now an artificial River Nene, Wisbech maintains its long tradition as a sea port.

This passageway, which now runs from St Mary's Street down into the car park beside the meadows, formed one of a tight network of passages and closes which provided cramped tenement accommodation in this

On the A52 between Nottingham and Grantham, Bottesford is the most northerly settlement in the county.

Kilby is a Scandinavian form of the Old English 'cilda-tun'; the first part means 'child', or more probably 'young nobleman'.

When he died in 1653, Humphrey Chetham had already started the work of educating the 'sons of honest, industrious and painful parents'.

We can see the porch attached to the west tower, and also the good proportions of the building. Inside, the wide three-bay nave is tall and light with thin piers.

The biggest docks were the Royal group east of Canning Town on the north bank of the Thames. The Royal Victoria Dock opened in 1855, enclosing 94 acres of water.

The castle, re-built in stone from 1189 by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, keeps a broody watch on the town - as it has always done. Henry Tudor, the future King Henry VII, was born here in 1457.

Here and above we see contrasting aspects of one of the town's most important thoroughfares: a quiet residential section overlooked by the comforting bulk of the Town Hall, and the busy shopping

The original lower height of the chancel roof can easily be seen, but otherwise, the interior is very similar to today`s church.

Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back.

The churchyard to the west of the church is framed on three sides by remarkable and complete sets of almshouses.

The home of the de Hoghton family, the house (which is still there today) was mainly built in the reign of Elizabeth I.

This is the T-junction at the centre of Hurst Green.This stretch of road has a history all of its own. In 1826 J C Macadam laid a new road surface here as a trial.

In the mid to late 1950s, this pattern of school building was springing up everywhere.

Moreton Hall, Whalley lies just over the boundary from Great Harwood at the other side of the valley of the Calder.

Shortly before this photograph was taken, the Town Council approved an expenditure of £850 to be paid to Frederick Pomeroy RA for the design and execution of a statue of the Lord Protector

The village nestles at the foot of Ingleborough, one of the famous Three Peaks, but it was the waterfalls walk that brought town dwellers to the area.

In August 1543 two treaties were ratified at Holyrood for the marriage of the infant Queen Mary to Henry VIII's son Edward.

Originally designed in 1767 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Earl of Bute, this unique country house was reconstructed in 1843 after a fire in which little of the original building was left untouched.

Silver Street is typical of the narrow winding streets that lead to the focal point of the city, the Market Square.