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Tavistock, one of Devon's three original Stannary Towns, lies on the banks of the Tavy, which rises high on the moors near Cut Hill and flows into the Tamar upstream of Tamerton.

Situated five miles north-west of Middleton-in-Teesdale, High Force offers stunning scenery and the spectacular sight of the Tees plunging some seventy feet over the cliffs of Great Whin Sill.

Shop and inn make up the heart of this village, built round the edge of an enormous village green. There was a market here from at least 1280.

Standing in Military Road, north-west of Red Lion Square, is the School of Small Arms, the main school of army musketry, founded here in 1854.

The 15th-century tower of Charminster's church dominates the valley of the River Cerne, and was built under the direction of Sir Thomas Trenchard. Parts of the building date back to the 12th century.

In common with many seaside resorts, Saltburn enjoys a wide swathe of promenade and in this delightful view we see a group of ladies and children strolling along the Promenade, taking in the sea air

Again we still see the old font in front of the priory arch and a gravel path to the right, long since disappeared, which presumably led to the greenhouse shown in the view of 1885.

To the right of this pathway is another which leads to the site of the postern gate, which was part of the early 11th- and 12th-century defences of Malmesbury.

Richmond's Norman fortress was begun by Alan the Red of Brittany in 1071 and dominates the entrance to Swaledale.

The castle was a fortified manor of the Bishops of Chichester; it was crenellated c1377 to defend the coastal area and the river estuary. The manor was granted long before the Norman Conquest.

The land for this park, west of the GWR Village, was donated in 1844 by Colonel T Vilett, one of the major landowners in the area, for the use of the railway community as a cricket ground and

The town of Broxbourne runs along the old north road, and was originally one of the largest parishes in the county.

The church of St John the Baptist at Royston was originally part of the 13th-century priory. At the Dissolution, the nave was demolished and the western arch of the tower was filled in.

As part of the redevelopment of the central section of Leeds, the Leeds Estates Company embarked on an ambitious scheme to transform the squalor between Vicar Lane and Briggate.

In the year of this photograph, Whitby is poised for a summer influx of new visitors via the new Scarborough to Whitby Railway, which opened on 6 July 1885.

Oxford's superb Town Hall building dominates this picture of the city centre. At the bottom of the photograph is Queen Street, named after Queen Charlotte, wife of George III.

Grimspound, a few miles north of the village of Widecombe, is one of the finest examples of a Bronze Age village in Europe. It lies half a mile off the road to the right.

This sought-after village grew up at the head of Mylor Creek.

As an important cathedral city, Winchester established an important tradition of tending the sick, probably from the days when pilgrims came to the shrine of St Swithun in search of miraculous cures

The bridge in the foreground of this photograph leads over the River Leven to a car park designated for the use of patrons of Suggitts ice cream parlour, something of an institution in

Once surrounded by the deer-haunted woods and heaths of Cranborne Chase, Alderholt has kept much of its original character, despite some new houses and a church of little antiquity; the latter is a building

Elsecar was one of the many collieries which formerly existed in the South Yorkshire coalfield around the village of Hoyland.

The village stands at the edge of the park of Holkham Hall, the palatial 18th-century home of Thomas Coke, later Earl of Leicester.

Within a few decades, the face of Cleckheaton had changed beyond recognition with the establishment of machine manufacturing.