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Until the commercial growth of towns such as Yeovil and Bridport, Beaminster was an important town for neighbouring villages.

The journey to Studland Bay has always been a favourite excursion for tourists from the nearby resort of Swanage.

The sturdy church of St Nicholas was originally the castle chapel, and probably dates back to the 11th century.

Worth lies just to the east of Crawley, beside the busy M23 and not far from bustling Gatwick Airport.

These covered passageways look almost like an updated version of cathedral cloisters, in the much plainer style of the 20th century.

The terrace of cottages in Allotment Lane has ragstone walls and a brick main façade; there is a low pediment at the centre with an arched window.

The Virginia creeper-clad gritstone walls of the Blue Lion Inn at East Witton, at the eastern entrance to Wensleydale. The inn has served the needs of the villagers for centuries.

Many of the trees in the various pleasure gardens were planted in Victorian times to 'improve the air quality' on the advice of the influential Dr Granville.

We are looking towards the centre of this pleasant market town.

This view of the old Causeway shows Cliffords the chemist's (extreme right) just before the shop closed. Part of this building now houses a fish and chip shop.

It was the arrival of the railway that sounded the death knell for the old port of Haverfordwest. The South Wales Railway reached the town in 1854.

Northwood House was the home of Tennyson's friend William George Ward in the 19th century. The poet and Ward would often stroll around Northwood's exquisite gardens.

West Gate, at the top of Winchester's High Street, has stood on the line of the city wall for over 600 years.

Noss Mayo's church, seen in the middle distance, was built on the orders of Lord Revelstoke in 1882 in a beautiful setting above both the village and river.

One early visitor to Budleigh was the Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais, who lived for some time at The Octagon at the western end of the parade.

Weymouth gained a reputation as a health resort quite early on in its history, particularly for the treatment of consumptives, some of whom would have stayed in this sanatorium.

The abbey played a part in the industrial development of Leeds, for it was here that iron forging first began in the district. Kirkstall was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains Abbey.

The flower market was no less frenetic.

Note the former Swan Inn of the late 17th century on the extreme right of the photograph.

Lloyds bank, on the left, provides a datum from which the quality of Loughborough's architecture can be measured. Apart from a few earlier buildings in the shot, all is rather mediocre.

From the wide basin at the foot of the locks the prospect of climbing the flight by narrow boat is daunting.

This picture shows the remains of the flint tower, which, as can be seen, needed substantial reinforcement with solid blocks of stone.

Charles Dickens was fond of Dawlish, and used it as the birthplace of Nicholas Nickelby, thus developing the town's literary heritage.

New shopping arcades were established along Low Street and North Street at the turn of the century, as the town's population continued to enjoy the fruits of the cotton boom years.