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This long and irregular village stands on either side of a switchback rise in the otherwise dead-straight Roman road that comprises this section of the A229.

The priests of the college were 'chantry priests' who offered masses for the souls of the dead, their founder and benefactors.

The roofed building has been replaced by the Ayscoughfee Café, and the gardens include an impressive war memorial to Spalding's dead of both wars.

This photograph appears to have been taken from the site of the memorial to the dead of the two World Wars, although it would obviously not have been present at the time this photograph was

The Latin on the memorial reads: `William Sparrow, gentleman, born in the year 1641, aged 88 when he died, fashioned this circle in the year 1660.` One of only eight mazes surviving in Britain

A monument to the dead stands in Burwell's churchyard.

The magnificent horse chestnut trees stand in the Priory Memorial Gardens, where the dead of the First World War are commemorated.

It was said of Runcorn that it was 'like the Dead Sea - there's a road into it but none out'. It was the building of the new bridge that really encouraged development locally.

In 1894 the Gas Committee of the Improvement Commissioners debated the introduction of electricity to supplement the gas supply, but it was 1932 before public electricity was to be added to

In 1894 the Gas Committee of the Improvement Commissioners debated the introduction of electricity to supplement the gas supply, but it was 1932 before public electricity was to be added to the

Because the curtain walls were so high, there were large areas of dead ground around the fortress that the defenders were unable to fire to into with any accuracy.

The appointed King, Godrich, Earl of Cornwall, takes care of Goldborough, and promises to fulfil the dead King's wish - to marry Goldborough to the strongest man in England when she is of age.

There are three such memorials in the town to remember the dead in foreign lands, but the town itself has seen action on its own soil.

On occasions at dead of night, staff are convinced they have seen a lady with long, dark hair and wearing long black period clothes walk down this corridor to what was the arched front door of the

There was a time when Rye was considered important enough for it to be added to the original Cinque Ports along with Winchelsea.

The function of a chantry priest was to say a mass every day for the soul of some departed citizen, the costs having been provided for in the dead person's estate, often in the form of rents from property

All good things end: the canteen was demolished in 1991, and the plaque listing the company's war dead was transferred from within to the factory front.

Out sprang Matthew, not dead but sleeping.

When Henry VIII was hunting in Sutton Park with Bishop Vesey he was charged by a wild boar, but before the animal could harm the king it dropped dead with an arrow through its heart.

(The song 'Flowers of the Forest' is a lament mourning the many Scottish dead who fell at that battle).

The clock has a Graham dead-beat escapement and is extremely accurate.'

When Henry VIII was hunting in Sutton Park with Bishop Vesey he was charged by a wild boar, but before the animal could harm the king it dropped dead with an arrow through its heart.

The Princess is lies dead on a ledge, covered entirely by a heavy sheet; only the fingers of one hand hang down from under it.

In 1967, as part of a reorganisation of the church, the font was moved to the north-east corner, and in 1978 this corner was refurbished and dedicated as a memorial chapel in memory of the dead of the