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The sides of the Knoll are fringed with medieval strip linchets, or terraces, formed for ploughing very steep slopes.

Favourite inns were the Plough and the Coach and Horses.

Devil's Den, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, is an example of how the ravages of the plough is nothing more than intentional vandalism.

The view shows a typical West Yorkshire industrial landscape of mills; these ones were originally powered by the fast-flowing streams of Colden Clough.

The sad looking building on the left was the Plough public house. In 1928 it was said to have a saloon, a lounge and a dining room, and it sold Bass, Youngers, Hammerton Stout and Fremlin Pale Ale.

The hump in the road by the Plough and Dial is the bridge, which gives the street its name. On the right is Sale's garage, with a Pratt's petrol pump delivering Shell fuel.

In 1943 the green was ploughed in a 'dig for victory' experiment to grow potatoes, flax and peas, but the soil proved too poor, and the scheme was abandoned.

It originally started as just five women students assembling in a house in Cambridge to be tutored by Mrs Jemima Clough; as the establishment grew, it moved into a building in the suburb of Newnham,

A pleasure steamer, the 'Queen of the Broads', crowded with tourists and well equipped with life belts, ploughs her way round the wide bend of the river Bure and down towards the sea.

In 1890 a headmistress died and others were injured when an express train ploughed into a light engine standing at the station. Most of the buildings to the right survive.

This view of the Plough Inn and the handful of cottages has hardly changed over the last 100 years.

Since this photograph was taken, the first-floor frontage of the Plough public house has been extended.

The Pandy and Monnowside Ploughing and Agricultural Society, formed in 1867, continues to hold annual competitions in agrarian crafts like this.

Behind the police officer is the Plough Inn, which belonged to Cheam Brewery, and was demolished in 1935 along with an adjoining draper's shop run by W D Harris.

Devil's Den, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, is an example of how the ravages of the plough is nothing more than intentional vandalism.

Listed in the Domesday Book as 'Eleacier', the town's name tells us that this was once 'Aelle's field or ploughed land'.

The Infirmary (on the right) was built opposite Coleman & Morton's ironworks - a firm that had specialised in ploughs and cultivators, but closed as a result of the agricultural depression.

There were two inns, the Manor and the Plough, where cock-fighting took place until it was outlawed.

Sailors and agricultural workers lived here, rope walks were busy, and so were the inns, the Plough and the Coach and Horses.

The picture shows Friday Street, with the historic Plough Inn on the left, obscured from view by a large tree.

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.

In this photograph, the side entrance to the market halls can just be seen to the side of the Plough Inn on the left.

On the north side of the road is the Plough Inn, occupying another of the 16th- and 17th-century village houses, in this case with late medieval cruck frames within.

Four carters and waggoners watch its passage with interest from the entrance to The Old Plough.