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The principal export from the tiny south Cornish port of Charlestown was china clay, much of it bound for Runcorn; from there it would be forwarded on to the Potteries.

Originally a wooden Saxon fortress built on two islands in a natural moat formed by the river Len, it was transformed into a solid stone castle at the beginning of the 12th century by the Norman baron

Built by Archbishop Warham in the early 16th century, this small manor house, consisting of a three-storey brick tower, a gallery (later turned into cottages), and the single-storey storehouse beyond

St Peters was designed by architect George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of

The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Heswall was opened in 1911 on a 9-acre site bordering Telegraph Road.

This part 16th-century timber-framed building is named after the Wylyot or Williot family, who held the manor in the mid 1300s as an outlier of the manor of South Mimms.

This area was called Crouche in 1400; the name derives from Old English 'cruc' or cross, but does this mean cross-roads or near to the cross?

In contrast to the picturesque qualities of St Andrews Old Church to its south, the late arrival has a not surprisingly metropolitan arrogance, as it was moved stone by stone from Well Street, close to

It was in Victorian times on the Old Bedford River near Earith that a most bizarre experiment took place.

Difficult though golf is, the natural hazard of crumbling cliffs on the edge of Sheringham Golf Links normally ensures that golfers practice their accuracy. Here we have two who have not!

Removal of the ivy enables us to admire the late 18th-century house (with a painter in action, left) and next door, a Georgian façade conceals a timber-framed house dated to 1454-55.

The first house on the left is a 16th-century timber-framed structure with an early 17th-century façade.

The priests of the college were 'chantry priests' who offered masses for the souls of the dead, their founder and benefactors.

Mid-way between Chailey and Haywards Heath is Scaynes Hill, and this photograph shows the summit of the hill. Though there is still a pub here, it is now called the Farmers.

A mile east of the Culham Science Centre we reach the charming village of Clifton Hampden on its tree-covered cliff by the River Thames.

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.

After the Dissolution of 1538 nearly all the monastic buildings, including the great church, were demolished, some quickly, others more slowly, until little trace remained of the vast Benedictine

The Lion, a fine and historic building, had been largely demolished in the late 1930s and replaced by the pallid neo-Georgian Woolworth's building seen on the extreme left of the photograph and the more

Virginia Cottage is on the left, and the shop of shoemaker Fred Cox who was succeeded by Frank Cox.

A bracing north-easterly catches flags and furls the lugsails of three packed boats entering harbour.

We are in the extreme southern tip of the county: whilst Stanford Hall is in Leicestershire, the parish church and the village are in Northamptonshire.

As can be seen here, the river formed part of the castle's defences. The landward defences included a moat, a drawbridge and a barbican.

Marrying the Duke of Monmouth, she sheltered him at Toddington when his scheme to take the throne from James II came unstuck.

Blackburn possessed six parks, but Corporation Park was the one laid out on clear Victorian lines. Sixty acres were transformed with terraced walks, as we see here.