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The electorate consisted of those men who had a hearth in Newport and St Stephens, and they voted as they were ordered to by the Duke of Northumberland; this effectively meant that the Duke decided who

No town centre worth its salt was complete without its Co-op store.

A barbican provided additional defences to the outer gatehouse on the east side, and the inner and outer wards were divided by a ditch, wall, and inner gatehouse equipped with a drawbridge.

The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.

Although the Gothic style flint and Bath stone cruciform church was completed in 1886, it was not consecrated until 1888 due to strong and often bitter opposition from the rector of Broadwater and

The fine setting of the town church is shown in this picturesque view through the gateway.

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

residence of Dr Bird, the house, like Sunnyfield House, had grounds stretching back to the North Bank Lane, now known as Bolckow Street/Park Lane (it was on this land that Mr Tom Pallister, the baker and

Rothesay is the county town on the eastern side of the Island of Bute, in an ideal location in the sheltered 'sweet Rothesay Bay', to quote the popular song.

The new factory was commissioned in 1912, and was built over the following eight years.

KIPPAX was a small estate village servicing Kippax Hall and Kippax Park for three centuries before developing rapidly in the mid 19th cen- tury with the discovery of coal reserves.

The Town Hall and the Market Hall stand out at the centre; the large building to the right of the Market Hall is Samuel H Facey & Son's brewery, which opened in 1862.

Edwin James Trendell, who had presented the Queen Victoria statue to the town to commemorate her 1887 Golden Jubilee, lived in Abbey House, and laid out its grounds, Abbey Gardens, in the 1880s.

There was a great fire in 1600 in Gamlingay, and most of the buildings along Church Street were burnt down.

its sylvan setting at the head of a wooded valley, the cluster of houses known as Hutton Village dates from the mid 19th century, when Mr Thomas, a local mine owner, built two rows of cottages and

During the inter-war years the council tried to alleviate the high rate of unemployment and set up a number of public works schemes.

The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

Leighton Buzzard's name has nothing directly to do with birds of prey, despite several local organisations adopting the title 'The Buzzards' and using the hawk as an emblem.

Opened in 1984, the new Lanes keeps frontages on English Street and Lowther Street and manages to retain something of the character of the old properties.

On the level ground to the south-west of the town stands the almost ploughed-out remains of an ancient double-ditched camp called The Aubreys.

The town is best-known for its castle of Edward I, started in 1294 in response to Madog's revolt, but never completed.

Welshpool has had an anxious history, situated on the border with England, and has been destroyed on several occasions.

Further down the Thames are the Houses of Parliament - or rather, the Palace of Westminster.

We are looking down on the village from the site of a Roman camp.