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What remains of Crowland Abbey is only a small part of what was there before the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The remains became the small town's parish church.

Humorist Laurence Sterne, once Vicar of Coxwold, lived at nearby Shandy Hall, where he wrote Tristram Shandy.

A gallery was added to the church in 1886 because of the need for more pews.

St Paul's Square, also known as Market Place, is bounded on the west by the churchyard of St Paul.

The church stands on the site of an important regional Roman town known as Calleva Atrebatum.

Stone from the same quarry was used in the construction of the seafront at Scarborough.

The High Street was laid out in 1826 as New Road, but development off the hill was slow.

The Park was formally opened on 1 July 1937. It is remarkably little changed, apart from the line of tall Lombardy poplars which went in the 1990s and the removal of the hedges.

This view looking towards town captures well the flavour of interwar development along the Tring Road itself.

The lower end of the Bude Canal has a basin with a sea lock to allow ships to enter and remain afloat. Three vessels are in port, while a fourth one lies aground beyond the lock gates.

Perhaps the chapel was built to house the relics of St Edward the Martyr, which were moved there from Shaftesbury.

It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn

The fishing village of Robin Hood's Bay lies just a few miles to the south of Whitby. Also known as Bay Town, the village became a favourite haunt for artists and holidaymakers alike.

As well as the River Hodder at the east of the village, it has Crossdale Brook running through it.

Watling Street, three miles south-west of Gravesend. It gained its name from a river passage that once reached it from the Thames at Northfleet.

Aynho, on the Oxfordshire border south of Banbury, is a beautiful ironstone village dominated by its great mansion, Aynho Park House.

A mile and a half north-east of Daventry, the Grand Junction (formerly the Grand Union) Canal cuts through the limestone ridge via the Braunston Tunnel.

Another mystery regarding Stonehenge is that many of the stones have been dressed - again there is no precedent for such work in Britain prior to Stonehenge.

Situated in Market Street and close to Apiary Gate, the church design echoes that of Non-conformist chapels up and down the country.

The printing offices of the Lancaster Guardian was the second building on the right. Church Street was used as an open market on Lancaster Fair days.

East of Chiddingfold the lanes wind to Alfold, which lies close to the Sussex border.

Nork is a suburb that merges south into Burgh Heath in the large triangle between Reigate Road, Brighton Road and Fir Tree Road, the north boundary of Nork.

The clock above the Market Hall (centre) was a favourite rendezvous point for many courting couples on their way to the theatre and cinemas.

This is the north end of Melford Green with the road to Stanstead to the left.