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The focus of the town is the triangular medieval market place, with the best buildings on its south side: the Old Vicarage of 1805 with its Venetian ground floor windows, mansard roof and battlemented

In this view of the square, coaches are parked in the broad open expanse. The town consists of ten streets within the walls, which are defended by round towers, and around twenty outside.

We are standing at the corner of Lady Lane, looking east. It is a road of late Victorian houses with names like Pretoria Villas, Rebecca Place and Grasmere.

By the banks of the graceful River Wensum is the 15th-century gateway to the city's diminutive canal, which penetrates its way to the margins of the cathedral.

Inside is a splendid collection of a hundred portraits of members of great East Anglian families, which were bequeathed by the antiquary Prince Frederick Duleep Singh.

An exhibition of fine art was held in the grounds of Bootham Park Hospital in 1866.

On the left is Leeds' oldest shop, which dates from 1613 and is receiving a face lift. Further along the street on the right stands the Empire Theatre.

The low tower of Bentley church can just be seen against a curtain of trees in this photograph. The base of the tower is over 500 years old, while the top is more recent.

Ottery St Mary was the birthplace in 1772 of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose father was the vicar of St Mary's, one of the finest parish churches in the land.

The Gardens were part of a scheme to enhance Southport's image as a garden city.

For a long time even Lancashire was not safe from bands of Scottish raiding parties, and 'Dunkenhalgh' is said to derive from the name of one of the brigands who settled in the area.

The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage. The yacht is typical of those developed since the 1930s for use on the Broads.

3147 miles from New York, England's most westerly point was named Belerion, or Seat of Storms, by the Romans.

The leafy Victorian estate village of Canford Magna was created by the Guest family of Canford House for their staff.

The font's octagonal basin is probably late 12th-century, but its original decoration of semi-precious stones was stripped off in the Puritan times of the 17th century.

This is a bit of a misnomer, as it is only a T-junction – but the view is virtually unchanged today.

The Rev Keith Holloway is reading the oath at the top of Star Lane.

Another view of the Bowness Ferry shows a full coach-and-four just about to set out from the Bowness side of the lake, with the coachman at the front steadying the nervous horses.This must have been

The sharp fangs of the Morte Slates have ripped through the hulls of many vessels.

On the far right, opposite the end of the pier and hidden by the Devon mist, is Larkstone Cove, site of a lime kiln where Welsh coal burnt Welsh limestone to produce the lime that was vital to regulate

The corner shop on the immediate left distinguishes Llando Terrace.

This sprawling modern village grew up with the coming of the railway at the junction of the A267 and B2203.

Overlooking colourful Chichester Harbour, Itchenor lies at the confluence of the Bosham and Chichester channels of the estuary and was originally named Icenor.

The fishermen of Brixham refined the technique of trawling for their catch close to the bottom of the sea; this technique mostly replaced the earlier drifting.