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Devonport stands to the west of the city of Plymouth, and is the newest of the three towns that make up Devon's largest urban area.

Dorothy Vernon lived at Haddon Hall during the 16th century and eloped with John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland.

There are many fine houses in the generously laid out leafy suburban roads of the New Town.

This early 16th-century timber building was commissioned by the Guild of Corpus Christi, a trade organisation which regulated the local industry of wool production.

The many bays and inlets of Connemara are dotted with little harbours and villages. One of the largest is Roundstone, situated on the coast road between Recess and Clifden.

It is probable that much of the stone from the abbey was used to construct and repair buildings in the town.

The hydropathic craze swept Britain from the 1840s onwards, when a German practitioner named Vincenz Priessnitz developed a series of treatments using ordinary cold water, thus saving the need to visit

Town Lock is one of two mechanised locks; the other is Newark Nether Lock at the northern end of the branch.

Sherborne is, by some people's estimation, the most beautiful of the Dorset towns.

An open view of the 12th-century church from across Church Road, with neither hedges nor yew trees.

The lifting bridge was opened by the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, in 1894. During the first year of operation it was raised more than 6,000 times for shipping.

Before James Brindley's arrival much of the site of modern Stourport was just sandy common land, with a solitary inn and a ferry crossing point.

We are inside the three-sided courtyard of Sizergh Castle, near Kendal.

We are inside the three-sided courtyard of Sizergh Castle, near Kendal.

Winchester's High Street boasts a variety of Georgian, Victorian and half-timbered Elizabethan buildings; some of them still have their original shop fronts and doorways.

Castle Combe was once a centre for cloth weaving but now seems to trade on its picturesque qualities.

A stroll across the water meadows of the River Itchen brings the traveller to the village of St Cross, seen here just after the end of the First World War.

Subsidence has been a constant problem in recent years for a number of buildings in Northwich - this has been the result of the underground mining of salt locally.

A less familiar view of this much-photographed place.

A wide range of architectural periods is represented in Astwood Bank, though Victorian buildings are particularly numerous.

This scene is of Banstead Downs, which are actually outside Sutton's boundaries, south of Belmont station. The clubhouse of the Banstead Downs Golf Club is seen in the distance.

The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist, but it was known in 1488 and in 1755 as the church of SS Peter and Pawle, a name used by the followers of St Augustine in around 600AD.

It is Market Day in the busy little town of Thirsk, standing at the foot of the Hambleton Hills, halfway between York and Darlington.

The view is dominated by a very attractive shopping parade by Welch and Hollis of 1913, and beyond somewhat utilitarian premises of the 1930s looks on towards Hampstead Garden Suburb; this was said by