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The first Christian church at Newers Wood had a moat.

This most attractive of towns is sets amongst woods and gentle rolling hills.

This photograph somehow conveys the feel of a picturesque West Country creek, with its thickly wooded shore and little boats stranded at low tide.The scene has changed little today.

Ardleigh Green Road reaches the Southend Arterial Road (A127) and beyond is Squirrel's Heath Road heading for Harold Wood.

Sunnyhurst Wood is a Nature Reserve; Sunnyhurst Brook runs through it to join the River Darwen that gave the town its name.

It was now firmly on the map: its narrow crowded alleys and harbourside streets, its ruined abbey and its souvenirs made from jet, fossilised wood found in the local area, proved a magnet for day trippers

This summer recreation corner on the banks of the Wharfe lay below the present Collingham Wood House on the Wetherby road.

Rydal was the home of William Wordsworth from 1813 until his death in 1850, and Rydal Water was one of his favourite lakes.

The zig-zag roof now covers a swimming pool, and the displaced bar is in a new part of the extended building. To the right behind the car is the Miniature Zoo.

The stocks have succumbed to wood rot and are no longer there.

This monumental glass pleasure dome was created in Hyde Park by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2,000 workers erected it at high speed, bolting and welding together 3,300 iron columns

Some of the older buildings of the village present a pretty and tranquil picture below the wooded hillsides, although in 1955 the road through the middle of Staveley still carried all the traffic to and

This monumental glass pleasure dome was created in Hyde Park by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2,000 workers erected it at high speed, bolting and welding together 3,300 iron columns

The monks had their own path through the woods to the church, where they had their own pews.

These woods around Melbury Park lay at the heart of the Fox-Strangways family lands of the Earls of Ilchester.

Rumour has it that the Romans did not camp here at all, and that the mounds are medieval workings.

The name means 'the clearing where the waters meet', the waters being the Calder and the Cragg Brook.

It had become quite dilapidated and very unholy indeed. Local cricketers were even using it as a pavilion, drinking beer while notching the runs into the wood of the altar.

St Leonard`s dates back to at least 1183 and it was largely rebuilt in 1414 and 1524. Its wooden steeple was added in 1709 and it is a rare and distinctive feature.

The coming of the railway put Whitby firmly on the tourist map; its harbourside streets, ruined abbey, and souvenirs made from jet (a fossilized wood found locally), all proved a magnet for holidaymakers

Temple Newsam was bought by Leeds Corporation in 1922 from Edward Wood, the future Lord Halifax.The first house known to have been built here belonged to Thomas, Lord Darcy, who was executed for

This picture postcard village is strung out along the road, with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford

It has a Norman flint-built round tower, and a fine shingled octagonal spire.

It was constructed primarily of wood, except for the section that passes over the river bed, which is of iron girders and pile-driven steel cylinders.