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Sitting in the delightful Kennet valley a couple of miles east of Marlborough is Mildenhall - known locally as 'Minal'.

Shipston-on-Stour is situated ten miles south-east of Stratford, and was once a centre for sheep and wool for the Vale of the Red Horse.

Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village has a 1586 Elizabethan manor house. The church of St Peter and St Paul is unusual in having one of Somerset's octagonal towers.

They were part of a batch of 200 built by Avro for the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 and still carry their military markings, although the name on the side indicates some form of civilian activity

The parish church of St Michael was built in 1878 on the site of an older chapel. Beer is famed for its quarries, which were worked by the Romans and have continued in use down the years.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises 800 feet at the back of the town.

At the beginning of the 11th century Wales, the 'territory of the Welshmen', was owned by the wealthy Mercian thegn Wulfric Spott, who also owned lands in Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

Looking westward, this is the top lock of the Caen flight, which at one time had gas lighting installed for night time working. However, the economic life of the canal was short-lived.

The best of the timeless views is still unchanged here, though with the Reading Room (left) now having become the Box of Delights and providing visitors with ice cream.

It is a summer morning and high tide outside the Palace of Westminster, with the barges at anchor.

Boys pose for the camera in the middle of the road, which is almost devoid of any traffic.The overpowering but rather dull Town Hall, with obligatory clock, dominates the right hand side of the road

On the right is the clock tower of Cambridge Hall; the clock and chimes were paid for by William Atkinson.

There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.

Lyme Regis was relatively late in having the advantage of its own railway line, for its station opened only in 1903.

Lyme Regis was relatively late in having the advantage of its own railway line, for its station opened only in 1903.

In 1551 the property of the Corpus Christi Guild ended up with Lord Clinton, and then the Marquis of Northampton claimed that of the other four guilds, though he handed back to the Corporation

Rye House 1904 The front aspect of the mid-15th-century red brick gatehouse of Rye House, the scene of the ill-fated 1683 Whig conspiracy to ambush Charles II as he returned to London from Newmarket

An interesting view of the church of St Cross from the porter's lodge, where a visitor can be seen receiving the tra- ditional 'Wayfarer's Dole' of bread and ale.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

The District Church of the Holy Angels began its existence in a steel hut.

Entered through Edgar Tower (just visible here above the rooftops), or through the Watergate, College Green is a delightful quadrangle of mostly 17th- and 18th-century houses, forming part of King's School

Of Eudo Dapifer's great abbey foundation in 1096, only the 15th-century gate- house and some of the precinct walls survive, the rest having been bombarded during the 1648 siege.

A view towards the sea along a quiet backstreet of Edwardian terraces. Many of these houses rented out rooms to summer lodgers who were unable to afford bed and board in more prestigious hotels.

The uniformity of dress amongst the men is striking. The sheer size of the building indicates the importance of Brunel's railway to the town. Gas street lighting was common at the time.