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It is hard to believe looking at this unremarkable village centre that just round the corner lie the remains of an important Roman town, Calleva Atrebatum.

The wonderful sandy beaches of the Sands have a backdrop of stunning rock formations in shale and sandstone.

The mock-Tudor building seen here gives little indication of the real timber-framed buildings that remain in the town, although most would have been destroyed when Owain Glyndwr proclaimed himself Prince

This is prime sheep-farming country, with wide open fields on either side of the river valley. When Charles Kingsley stayed at Bridge End, the area inspired him to write his novel The Water Babies.

On Cove Lane there was an ancient chapel. The lane also led to Jenny Brown's Point, where an old lady of that name lived in the 18th century.

Samuel Long (right) was a well-established fishmonger, so the bustle of people outside the shop suggests that something tasty was on special offer - elvers or lampreys locally caught in the Severn, perhaps

The exporting of coal has ceased by this date, and the loading gear and coal trolleys are long gone.

The Mansfield, Sutton and District Co-operative Society shop on the corner (left) was funded by Earl Manvers in 1895.

Records show that Formby was the site of the first lifeboat station in the British Isles.

The journey to Studland Bay was probably the favourite excursion for tourists from Swanage, who could either get there by walking along the cliff tops or by taking a carriage or charabanc along the

Townsend`s Stores (left) have become J G Clifford, dispensing chemist; the tearooms and cafe are now Riverside Hair Design; Ali`s Tandoori Restaurant lies on the opposite side of the arched

The statue is Archdeacon Robert Johnson, the founder, who is holding a model of the school in his hand.

People sit and watch life go by under the hexagonal arches of the Poultry Cross. For five hundred years commerce has surrounded this area with ironmongers, shoemakers and fish and meat shops.

Little has changed at this junction on the roads to Newnham and Hinxworth, known as West End and Back Street.

The road has now been truncated to allow for the building of the Barbican; the church survived severe Second World War bombing to stand in the way of the development, which was completed in the early 1980s

Following the publication of Jerome K Jerome's book 'Three Men in a Boat', the pastime of 'messing about in boats' became very popular in Victorian and Edwardian times.

The foundation stone of this very attractive red brick building was laid on 21 October 1911 by Lord Derby, and the church was finally consecrated on 12 April 1913.

Roath Park was laid out in 1894 at a cost of £62,000 - a considerable sum in those days. The land, 132 acres, was presented to the city by Lord Bute.

The shops, work-shops and brick houses are built on the street edge, while the older cottages and farmhouses are set back, possibly on the line of the original village green.

The parish itself included the outlying villages of Bickerstaffe, Burscough, Lathom, Scarisbrick and Skelmersdale; the population of Ormskirk itself grew from 2,554 in 1801 to 3,838 in 1821.

On the left outside Rodber's furniture and floor coverings shop can be seen tables, beds and a chest of drawers, and also their delivery van.

It was from Brancepeth in November 1569 that the rebel earls of Westmorland and Northumberland launched their attack on Barnard Castle, which was being held for Queen Elizabeth by Sir George Bowes.

Broadstairs was the queen of all watering places as far as Charles Dickens was concerned; he first visited here in 1837, and subsequently wrote 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'Barnaby Rudge', 'The Pickwick Papers

On the left are the boundary walls of the Hospital of God at Greatham, founded in 1273 – this was not a hospital in the modern sense, but accommodation for the elderly and the poor, the earliest present