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The Domesday Book refers to the settlement as Rinwede.

All looks peaceful and quiet in this photograph. Today all roads seem to lead into Liphook, and it is a busy, noisy place.

When Lewis Carroll was visiting his father, who was Canon of Ripon from 1852 to 1868, these wonderful carvings inspired his book 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.

Lord Brotherton donated his collection of rare books and gave £100,000 in cash.

Occupying the corner, right of centre, is Thorogood's ('Fancy Pastry Cook') - originally built as the town's first post office in the early 1870s.

On display inside the church is the baptism register recording that the world-famous navigator and explorer Captain James Cook was christened here on 3 November 1728.

Victorian guide book writers were not impressed by the bathing at Ryde.

Barnston appears in the Domesday Book as 'Bernestone', then held by William Fitz-Nigel, second Baron of Halton.

This area of Norfolk is sheep country, and Stokesby is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 180 sheep in the manorial flock.

By the 1880s the shoeblack societies had four hundred boys on their books. A number were given cheap board and lodging.

When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and at

Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the present building dates from the fifteenth century.

Owned for centuries by the Aspinall family, Pendleton was an old village when the Domesday Book was compiled.

The other lady, walking along the back of the jetty, is oblivious to everything other than the book in which she is

The Domesday Book records that the manor of Fordingbridge possessed a church and two mills, and was rented at 14s 2d.

Of the three arches at the north end, the central one leads to the chapter house, whilst those on either side were book cupboards where the abbey library was housed.

Of Hardhorn, Newton, and Staining, only the last name is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Much Wenlock is the most delightfully evocative town, so much so that Ellis Peters (the local author of the Brother Cadfael detective books set in the 12th century) once said of the town that you almost

The fishermen are sorting nets and a crab or lobster pot, while three children are posed sitting in their midst reading a book.

The steps lead up to West Cliff with the flagstaff and Cook's statue.

Thomas Cook started his travel business from a building overlooking the Clock Tower in 1841, and the front commemorating this historic undertaking, put up in 1894, is, indeed, special.

Owned for centuries by the Aspinall family, Pendleton was an old village when the Domesday Book was compiled.

This is the most northerly of all the photographs in our book. Hammerton Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the grounds.

As the hills are owned by Birmingham, it is reasonable to include the area in this book.