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The parish church of St John was described as 'one of the architectural ornaments of the town', and the interior came in for much praise.

It was designed by James Wilding, a Liverpool man who was associated with a number of buildings in the town and who also played an important part in the development of Runcorn Hill as a park once the

Note the engine shed and the load gauge in the goods yard. The station was at Kelly Bray, just north of the town, and it survived until 1966.

Sherborne Abbey is the burial place of two Saxon kings, Ethelbald and Ethelbert, the two elder brothers of Alfred the Great.

At the time of the Conquest, Norwich was both an important town and a major port. Control was quickly established with the erection of one of the earliest motte and bailey castles in England.

The Old Hall, very much the finest building in the town and now largely surrounded by Victorian housing, sits in its grassy square, a potent reminder of the town's great medieval past.

Magnus Barefoot built a timber fort on St Patrick's Isle in about 1098-1103; the bulk of the surviving fortifications date from the time of Thomas, First Earl of Derby, and were constructed in 1460-1504

Sudbury, on the River Stour, was once an important cloth town, and has always had a popular market. Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

The West Lodge and Gates are at the head of De Parys Avenue.

The Romans built a town here, though its ramparts are now only faintly recognisable, and in Saxon times it was the bishopric for Wessex and Mercia.

On the site of the gardens of the Old Rectory was the windmill, which burned down in 1802 and yet again within 30 years.

In 1925 the Square was beginning to show the degree of traffic problems that were to blight the town in future years.

The town and its castle have therefore been fought over on numerous occasions. Dating from about 1400, the bridge was for years one of only a handful of crossing points over the Forth.

The town and its castle have therefore been fought over on numerous occasions. Dating from about 1400, the bridge was for years one of only a handful of crossing points over the Forth.

In 1770 there were 5,000 people living in the town, and by 1811 there were 15,083, three times that number; by 1835 the population had doubled again.The railway to Preston opened in 1846, but the

Some parts of Victoria Park were left as woodland, and bracken, silver birch and oak thrive. It would be difficult to guess from the photograph that this was in the centre of a town.

Just as they do today, the boys who lived in this historic town - Fordwich is the smallest town in Britain - enjoyed boating on the River Stour which ebbed and flowed between Canterbury and the sea.

A number of these houses have been converted into shops to cater for the visitors and pilgrims who flock to this town and visit the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Throughout the First Civil War, both town and castle were held by the Royalists, and as such was one of the last to surrender.

Following the death of the owner, the site was acquired by the town and first opened to the public in 1960.

Westport was separated from Malmesbury as it was situated outside the west gate to the town, and it was linked to the town by Abbey Row.

Spilling down from the Yorkshire Dales, the Ribble streams under the lovely old bridge at Settle and through the valley that has taken its name.

Note the many shop awnings and the trams further down the street, a reminder of town centre public transport.

This, the original hamlet on the shore, consisted of fishermen's cottages and the Ship and Nimrod Inns. Henry Pease was said to have had a vision of 'a town arisen on the edge of a cliff'.