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One of Lamorna's most famous residents was the painter Samuel John Birch, who moved there in 1892 and stayed for the rest of his life.

Swans are afloat on the river on a sunny day.

Low Row is one of several pretty villages which mark the length of Swaledale, many people's favourite among the Yorkshire Dales, with its spectacular scenery and long history of lead mining.

One of the attractions of England's villages is how each one seems to play a part in the greater history of these islands.

In the fishing era, every household had at least one cat, for the very practical purpose of keeping the net cellars free of mice. Natural fibre nets of that time were damaged by mice nibbling at them.

This pub has a date of 1635 in sheep's knucklebones set in the floor of the bar.

The tower contains a grand carillon of forty-seven bells. Built to remember the fallen of the Great War, it is a fitting tribute, for one of Britain's two bell foundries is in the town.

Cow Lane has changed in recent years, with infill building visible to the left of the house in the centre of this picture.

On the left-hand edge of photograph H252061 (page left) we see the shop George Hilton & Sons, which was built in 1932 and designed by Harold Turner (a local architect whom we will meet elsewhere

The archetypal memorial is sited at the junction of Frolesworth Road and Station Road, offering a permanent reminder of the inevitably sad consequences of war.

Devonport stands to the west of the city of Plymouth, and is the newest of the three towns that make up Devon's largest urban area.

Dorothy Vernon lived at Haddon Hall during the 16th century and eloped with John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland.

There are many fine houses in the generously laid out leafy suburban roads of the New Town.

This early 16th-century timber building was commissioned by the Guild of Corpus Christi, a trade organisation which regulated the local industry of wool production.

The many bays and inlets of Connemara are dotted with little harbours and villages. One of the largest is Roundstone, situated on the coast road between Recess and Clifden.

It is probable that much of the stone from the abbey was used to construct and repair buildings in the town.

The hydropathic craze swept Britain from the 1840s onwards, when a German practitioner named Vincenz Priessnitz developed a series of treatments using ordinary cold water, thus saving the need to visit

Town Lock is one of two mechanised locks; the other is Newark Nether Lock at the northern end of the branch.

Sherborne is, by some people's estimation, the most beautiful of the Dorset towns.

An open view of the 12th-century church from across Church Road, with neither hedges nor yew trees.

The lifting bridge was opened by the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, in 1894. During the first year of operation it was raised more than 6,000 times for shipping.

Before James Brindley's arrival much of the site of modern Stourport was just sandy common land, with a solitary inn and a ferry crossing point.

We are inside the three-sided courtyard of Sizergh Castle, near Kendal.

We are inside the three-sided courtyard of Sizergh Castle, near Kendal.