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It was paralleled 79 years later with the opening of the Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth railway line, and its branch line from here to Bridport and West Bay.

These ruined windows and arches are the remains of the cloisters.

As well as being in the West Riding, Saddleworth was also in the wapentake of Agbrigg.

Further west, the High Street meets Abingdon Road (right) and Steventon Road (left) in a small green.

New housing and shopping facilities near the station were soon erected.

The village of Bradpole is shown here from the north-east, looking south-west from above Hole House Farm and the valley of the Mangerton River across to Holy Trinity Parish Church (right) and the fields

The churchyard to the west of the church is framed on three sides by remarkable and complete sets of almshouses.

Back inthe Chess Valley we reach Latimer, a very pretty village with a triangular green and, uphill to the west, Latimer House.

A lane leads south-west from the green by the former post office to St Paul's Church and Culham Manor.

The new seaside resort was mostly laid out south of the old town on flatter land between the Lower Town, largely destroyed by fire in 1791, and the sea.

In this town we will find a fascinating mixture of alleyways, courtyards and shambles.

St Mary Magdalene's church runs west from the Market Place and was heavily Victorianised and extended – the new chancel's foundation stone was laid by the Duke of Portland in 1887.

Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.

The lord of the manor, William Gossip, purchased land here with the view to owning a substantial but convenient house in this rural part of the West and North Yorkshire border.

The vicar of St Mary's, F Leith Lloyd, wanted a larger church for his congregation, and engaged William Niven to design this enormous church at a cost of £30,000.

All Saints' Church, built on a mound, was consecrated in 1190, and contains three bells, one of which weighs a ton.

Pound Street continues south-west from Hiugh Street; it is more cottagey, apart from two grander houses on the left.

he first effective spinning mill in the west of Scotland was built at Rothesay.

Although not large, the church is a superb and complete Perpendicular Gothic building of high quality and some originality, particularly in the west tower's design.

From this view it is obvious that the town occupies a ridge between the two rivers: the land drops to the Great Ouse (see the previous views) and to the Ouzel, as we see here - this view was

The limestone obelisk has a ball finial and is mounted on a square base.

Symondsbury is an intimate little village positioned between two rounded hills, and probably on the route of a medieval road linking Bridport and Axminster.

Opened throughout in 1772, the Staffs & Worcestershire Canal was designed by James Brindley as part of a scheme to allow traffic to operate between the Thames, Trent, Severn and Mersey.

Opened throughout in 1772, the Staffs & Worcestershire Canal was designed by James Brindley as part of a scheme to allow traffic to operate between the Thames,Trent, Severn and Mersey.