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Swimbridge was the next village along the Barnstaple to South Molton road after Landkey. In this 1890s picture, there are roadside poles. Are they for gas lighting, or telephones even?

This view looks from the junction of the High Street and South Parade on market day.

This is a general view of Kendal from the south, with the Lakeland hills in the background.

In the middle ground, a substantial stone bridge supports the road connecting Greaves Wharf with South Snowden jetty. This man-made harbour was built originally for exporting slate.

Nine miles south-west of Norwich, Wymondham is noted for its fine priory church.

With their summer breezes, endless views and salty tang of the sea, the uncrowded expanses of the South Downs have long been a favourite haunt of writers and artists.

Low Brook was built in the middle of the 20th century as an overspill housing estate just to the south-east of Rockbeare village.

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

The south pier was completed in 1848. During the winter months these rough seas are common on this coast. A terrible storm in 1871 claimed the lives of six local lifeboat men.

A few hundred yards from the hall stands South Farm, where Mary Ann Evans was born in 1819.

The Isle of Portland guards Weymouth Bay from fierce south-westerly gales, though it is a rocky peninsula rather than an island.

South Parade was deserted when the Frith photographer called.

The castle and the south- eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to

Amberley straddles high ground to the south of Stroud, amid glorious Cotswold scenery.

South of the market-place, the old grammar school is centred around a wide, seven-bay red-brick building of 1765.

This one was number 24 of 103 built along the south coast in the early 1800s as a defence against a possible invasion by Napoleon. It has been restored and opened to the public.

In 1838 the South Midland Temperance Association embraced a large number of towns, including Stratford-upon-Avon.

Augustinian convent which was founded in 1232, Lacock Abbey is the place where, in 1835, William Henry Fox-Talbot took the world's first photograph - a negative of one of the windows on the south

This lighthouse once occupied the feared Eddystone Rock, 14 miles south of the Hoe.

Elsecar was one of the many collieries which formerly existed in the South Yorkshire coalfield around the village of Hoyland.

Locals pronounce Slaithwaite 'Slawit', and this bustling village in the valley of the River Calder four miles south-west of Huddersfield is another one with Norse origins.

Its streets, North, South, East and West, follow the pattern laid down by the Romans.

South of the market-place, the old grammar school is centred around a wide, seven-bay red-brick building of 1765.

The Lady Stanley sailed every day from the south end of the Parade to Weston Point.