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The harbour was developed by the railway companies—wagons of the London Midland Scottish Line are drawn up at the quayside.

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border. Its church, St Augustine's, was built in 1873.

Invariably the village shop and post office (left) was the social hub of village life, and Ardingly is no exception.

There is some debate over the meaning of the name of Cranleigh. Is it taken from the notion that the lord of the manor once bred cranes or herons for his table? Or that cranberries once grew nearby?

This is an unusual view of St Andrew`s Church, taken from the graveyard looking west towards the main road.

The new A1 bisected the town of Ferrybridge after 1967.

Apart from the heavier loss of life during the so called Great War, men then overwhelmingly joined the army with local conflict saw a much wider variety of occupations in the armed forces,

Now past the North Street junction, Frith's photographer is looking north past the covered wagon with its load of barrels and sacks towards the pedimented gable of the 1868 Wesleyan church

South-east of Shalford, Wonersh has an old core with some fine timber-framed houses, including the 16th-century Grantley Arms pub; there are more old houses along the winding The Street, which starts

The sign here says 'The Old Cock Inn, by Walter Harrison, licensed in the tenth year of the reign of Queen Anne. Retailer of foreign Wines and Spirits'.

It was funded by local merchants grown wealthy in the wool trade, and some of their stories are told in the notable collection of brasses found inside.

The town`s impressive Chinese Bridge was built in 1827 - the name reflects the design of the bridge. It links Post Street to the riverside walk on the west side of the Ouse.

This old manorial village 5 miles north of Sheffield was part of the industrial revolution: it established small craft workshops making nails and parts for the burgeoning factories in Sheffield

Glen Middle Mill 1908 If Sally Spencer, the lady looking at the photographer, came back today, she would see that almost all in this view (except the rear block of Pavey's Temperance Hotel) has

It is a stone town, with one of the finest 15th-century churches in the county, largely built from the wool wealth of the town.

A closer view of the Ilchester Arms Inn.

A little further south, is Jesus Hospital, a fine quadrangle of 28 single- storey almshouses with a taller entrance bay.

It is thought that the Bishops of Llandaff were resident in Mathern as early as the 14th century; they eventually left in 1763.

Here we can see a closer view of the railway line, which runs parallel to the river virtually all the way to Carmarthen.

At this point the River Medway ceases to be tidal; the electrical sluice gates here, thirty feet wide and fifteen feet deep, are an essential part of the flood control scheme of the Medway Valley.

Even in the mid-fifties, Edenbridge retained some of its atmosphere as a small agricultural town, strung out along the Roman road which reached out across the Weald from Lewes to London.

Said to derive its name from a local family, the area basically occupies a stretch of Edgware Road about a mile south of Edgware.

The decline of the herring fishery was offset to a certain extent by dredging for scallops and queenies. In 1937 the first dredging operations on a commercial scale were undertaken around Port Erin.

In 1506 the Archduke Phillip of Austria and his wife the Spanish Infanta Joanna were brought to Charminster after being cast ashore on the Dorset coast.