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At the east end of the village, the village green has the war memorial at its centre.

The Red Lion Inn shown here at the centre of the picture survives where others, such as the Bell (on the left) have not; public houses sprang up alongside the canal route which opened to great national

This is a very popular view of the town, showing the three bays separated by rock outcrops. The pier was built on one of these outcrops in 1865, only to be damaged in a storm the following year.

The castle was built by Richard, Lord Scrope some eighteen years after being granted a licence to crenellate by Richard II.

An ancient village recorded in the Domesday Book as Penictune, it has a stream flowing through it like Downham has, and it also lies at the foot of Pendle Hill.

The success of Wisbech has always depended on its rivers and canals. The five mile-long Wisbech Canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech.

Modern golfers benefit from the latest technology: an aerodynamic ball, and well-balanced clubs made from a precise blend of metals.

Beverley's beers were certainly best at the Horse and Jockey (left) back in 1959. Now the village's oldest pub is almost the only remaining building in this picture.

The Town Hall was designed by Christopher Kempster, who was probably advised by Sir Christopher Wren, as Kempster was one of the masons he used in rebuilding London after the Great Fire of 1666.

Blackburn means 'on the black stream'.The town guards the entrances to the river valleys we have been looking at in earlier pages - the Ribble, the Hyndeburn and the Hodder - and was the starting

At the extreme end of the `ring` is the Ferry Boat Inn. The Ferry Boat claims to be one of the oldest inns in Britain.

It was a hundred years after the Normans defeated the English at Hastings that they had ambitions to conquer Ireland.

Punch and Judy hold the attention of the formally-dressed crowd of holidaymakers in the South Bay.

Charlotte Bronte and her sisters spent such a spartan childhood at the school for clergymen's daughters here that she immortalised it in her famous novel 'Jane Eyre': 'We set out cold, arrived at church

Of the priory buildings, only the mid 14th- century gatehouse survives, with the medieval market cross in front.

One of two Hertfordshire inns with cross-street signs (the other is the Four Swans at Waltham Cross), the Fox and Hounds moved to its present site in 1955 after a disastrous fire at the old building in

Built around 1130, the Manor is supposed to be the oldest continuously inhabited house in Britain.

They lie in a north-south axis on the western edge of the town; they measure as high as 22ft 6in, and are as big as the stones at Stonehenge.

We look eastwards down Church Street from the Main Road on the south side of the Talbot Arms and Doon Beg (far left).

At the top of Church Hill we find this Swedish-style church, built in 1902 at a cost of £2678.

This chapter finishes across the next valley and up on the chalk ridge at Warlingham, 600 feet above sea level.

As well as the old church, Braddan has a newer one built out of local stone in 1869 (at a cost of £4300) to a design by John Loughborough Pearson.

, Bletchley; and a silver and gold pendant necklace on the skeleton of a woman at Shenley, along with some small iron shears and a knife beside her.

One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.