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Christchurch was built by Edmund Withypoll in 1548-50, of red brick, on the site of Holy Trinity Priory. In 1893 the house and park were offered for sale.

This is taken from the 'tongues' in the middle of the River Brett, adjacent to the two 18th-century hump-backed bridges. The Peacock is early 15th-century.

This compact little village in a hollow south of the Hog's Back is benignly watched over by St Lawrence's Church, with its wooden 14th-century south porch.

These demure Victorian villas, constructed to house commuting City workers, are outwardly unchanged, although now augmented by two more modern houses on the right-hand side of the picture.

This small town, now part of Wrexham, was a mainly working-class community supplying workers for the various industries and mines in the area.

The houses on Pennine View are from a different era to the ones we saw in D210004, and catering for more modern workers.

The old road follows the line of the ridge and the beach was once occasionally used to load coal onto boats at high tide from the nearby Trefân Cliff Colliery.

The lanes and streets of Porlock wind delightfully between attractive whitewashed and thatched houses, including The Ship Inn with its characteristic external chimney stack in the centre of the street

Beyond the nave and the crossing is the medieval choir and sanctuary, the oldest part of the church, dating from the 12th to the 14th century. It is crowned by an 18th-century vaulted ceiling.

When digging foundations for the footings on the far side of the railway bridge the Victorian engineers discovered the remains of a Saxon fortification built in AD 915 by Queen Ethelfleda

It's amazing to think that Halton is now the centre of the modern town once more; history has turned full circle.

The old village of Weston, sitting on Runcorn Hill, has given its name to Weston Point where the docks and industries are largely to be found.

The buildings all survive but the whole view has changed considerably with, believe it or not, a much narrower road.

Looking at their family tree, one can see how the Gregs were connected to many other important inventors and industrialists of the time, including Josiah Wedgwood and the Darbies of Coalbrookdale

Off the Lizard, fearsome rocks are a constant reminder of why a lifeboat station was established in 1859 in the very exposed Polpeor Cove right under the most southerly point in England

It has been damaged on a number of occasions by passing lorries. The 4ft-high figure of the blacksmith then has to be repaired by a firm that makes traditional merry-go- rounds.

The main Huddersfield to Manchester railway makes its way along the steep side of the valley, and it has to cross many side valleys.

A gas lamp stands in the middle of the square, where the market cross once stood. A pestle and mortar (still present) proclaims that Mackereth, late Mason, is a chemist's shop.

Burford sits right on the county boundary with Herefordshire - the boundary is defined by the River Teme at this point.

In order to compare this picture with picture number O1044, look for the gable end with the two chimneys as a point of reference.

Standing some 800ft up, rising in green terraces above the village, it affords panoramic views with the erosion caused by rivers and frost action during the Ice Ages evident in the isolation of the

The 'Millie Walton' was sent to Cromer for evaluation in 1945 before she was sent to her station on the Isle of Man.

The war memorial stands on a tiny green close to the Swan Hotel (the white- painted building, centre) which dates from 1668.

There can be few people in Britain who have not seen a photograph of this scene at some time or other, consciously or not.