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The Guiness Brewery's vessel 'Guiness' waits to enter Latchford Locks near Thelwall after discharging her liquid cargo at Manchester.

This building exhibits all the usual features of a post office, including letter boxes, a clock and an information board giving details about collection times.

The short battlemented tower adorns an attractive group of 18th- and 19th-century houses at the south-eastern end of the village.

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing

The charters of Henry VIII allowed a fair to be held at the feast of Corpus Christi.

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

The weatherboarded Spring Hotel, in the background at the junction of Chessington Road and Kingston Road, was once a farmhouse, until this stretch of the highway was created in 1834.

This fine stone bridge is not unlike the one at Higher Brock. The Ribble Valley has many good examples, notably at Edisford and Halton, and Cromwell's bridge over the river Hodder.

This classic view has All Saints' spire behind the shops with the famous Butter Cross (at least 300 years old) in the middle.

Much of Borth consists of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of

John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, victor of Blenheim and Ramillies, and ancestor of Sir Winston Churchill, may have been born at Ashe House in 1650.

We can take a closer look at that terrace.

At the east side of the market place was the entrance to Abingdon Abbey.

The Greys of Bradgate fame and the Ferrars have lived at the Old Hall; Lady Elizabeth Ferrars married Sir Edward Grey, later Lord Ferrars.

River outings on the Thames were popular in Victorian times. Jerome K Jerome describes a classic journey in his 'Thee Men in a Boat'.

At one time, flocks of sheep and herds of cattle congregated at Tregaron ready for the long walk to England. However, the town continued to serve as a market place for livestock for many years.

The large building, centre left, is the old Town Hall, with the Library and Mechanics' Institute to its left (now Council offices).

Originally a narrow street of shops, houses and workshops, the redevelopment and widening of Market Street took place between 1822 and 1834 at a cost in excess of £250,000.

This beautiful village is situated on the Sussex border on a headstream of the Medway river. The village contains a number of fine weatherboarded houses and a school with Tudor timbering.

Watling Street, three miles south-west of Gravesend. It gained its name from a river passage that once reached it from the Thames at Northfleet.

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

The magnificent elevations of St Paul's soar above the surrounding streets. Wren directed its construction at such a ponderous pace that Parliament cut his salary from £200 to £100 a year.

Slaidburn nestles in a hollow with higher ground around it. As well as the River Hodder at the east of the village, it has Crossdale Brook running through it.

This tiny hamlet, almost unchanged today, is at one end of the parish of Abinger, which at nine miles is the longest in Surrey, but is never more than a mile in breadth.