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Prinknash Abbey stands on the lower slopes, a small Benedictine community that moved here from Caldey Island in 1928.

Hingham was responsible for providing New England with many settlers in the 17th century, where they founded another Hingham.

Beyond Smith's chemist's shop, on the left, and the entrance to the Shambles, is another Smith's: Alma House clothing store.

A hundred years before this picture was taken it would have been less desirable, with the nearest passable road a mile away and the best route from one country house to another across the fields.

On the left is the Electra Cinema which occupied the ground floor of the defunct Market Hall.

This pier was called the Promenade Pier to distinguish it from the Admiralty and Prince of Wales piers, which were both primarily used by steamers and trains.

They appear to have been early exponents of the corporate image, both in the style of lettering used on their signs and in the way their premises were fitted out.

Here we see both Norman and Perpendicular features, but the organ is early 19th-century Gothic; a brass plate was set in 1789.

A shop, a café, a guest house and two pubs feature in this view, and all are still there today in one form or another.

John Rennie's gorgeous bridge, built in 1817 as both river crossing and monument to the battle, was demolished in 1923.

North Walk was destroyed when the Lynton and Barnstaple railway came through in 1898. Subsequently, a road was built linking The Strand with the end of High Street.

When this picture was taken, most of the villagers would have earned their living from agriculture or fishing, or both.

On the extreme right of the picture is the war memorial, recalling the men of Higham Ferrers who died in both World Wars, and to the left of it, partly screened by trees, is the 13th-century Market Cross

Traffic travels both ways. Notice the Police Officer on his bicycle to the left, examining a parked vehicle.

Often you can walk for miles in its foothills without meeting another person.

Another fine church, St Paul's was opened in 1866 for the local Methodist congregation. It cost £8,000 and all of this money was paid by one benefactor, Thomas Hazelhurst.

Beside the memorial to the dead of two world wars is a statue to another of Colne's brave sons, Wallace Hartley.

Occupying a hill-top, Preesall grew as a small market around a corn mill and two pubs, both of which are shown here, the Black Bull and the Saracen's Head.

The railway line to Huncoat and Burnley crosses the road here.There was at one time another line down to Rawtenstall, joining what is now the East Lancashire Preserved Railway.As well as having three

The village postman poses for the photographer, while another villager gets a bucket of water from the fountain memorial to Dent's most famous son, the pioneer geologist Adam Sedgwick.

Having survived yet another war, this ancient battlement enjoys a total restoration carried out by its owner Sir Martin Conway in 1905.

The library has since moved to another site, and this building is now used by Stourbridge College.

This shopping parade was built for Shirley's growing commuter population in the mid 20th century, but today it is part of a seemingly endless string of commercial premises along both sides of the road.

Looking more like two churches than one, Ormskirk's parish church is unique in the north for having both a tower and spire.