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Only a mile or so from Petworth, the village of Byworth typifies the rural community in this Edwardian photograph.

On the downlands close by are a considerable number of prehistoric barrows - burial grounds of some of the earliest inhabitants.

The sign on the creeper-clad walls of the Old Bridge Hotel proclaim it as 'one of England's best'.

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

This waterfall is not as spectacular as the Rhenass falls of Glen Helen or those of Glen Meay or Dhoon Glen, but even so the Frith cameraman managed to provide us with a pleasing view of the Colby falls

castle demol- ished and made untenable); Conwy (Scottish Committee to consider how garrison may be slighted); Denbigh (extensive demolition); Flint (extensive demolition); Harlech (demo- lition of

Boston was not only the largest town and the commercial capital of Lincolnshire in the early 19th century but was also the first town in the county to industrialise.

On top of Table Mountain is a 2,500-year-old fort (a crug) of Hywel, from which the town derived its name.

The church of St Chad, with two bells hanging in its open belfry, stands a short distance down the lane opposite the Fenwick Arms.

This old wool town is situated north of Cheltenham in the deep valley of the River Isbourne.

This is St Mary's Parish Church, seen from the north-west, showing the two bays of the nave and aisles extended in 1860 (right).

Sited away from the city centre in the last remaining enclave of 18th-century and earlier buildings, the Cathedral with its fine broach spire of 1862 would hardly wring an awed gasp from even the most

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester and to the west of the busy A6.

Not visible in this photograph, but well worth walking to see at the west end of the street, is St Stephen's church, a large and handsome building which was founded before the Norman Conquest.

At the height of the great slate trade of the 19th century, slate was shipped out from Porthmadog harbour, and the town grew steadily because of this.

On the western edge of the North York Moors, Osmotherly was a centre for milling, weaving and clog making, and it grew considerably in the hundred years from 1750.

East of the village, the Shelford Road climbs on to the red sandstone hills, which are undercut by the River Trent to form river cliffs.

Lickey village is an unremarkable sort of place, but the name is famous among railway buffs because the two-mile Lickey Incline (between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green) is, almost incredibly, the steepest

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

Begun in the mid 1830s, Walton Hall was to be both the family home and the country estate of Gilbert Greenall, a wealthy local brewer and prominent businessman.

Hancock & Wood and Roberts shoe shop are almost all that remain of this 1950s scene.

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

It is notable for its collection of grotesque gargoyles, and for two carved capitals which are derived from the stories of Reynard the Fox; appropriate in Cottesmore country.

The ferry originated for the use of monks from the priory, to cross to their farmland on the west bank.