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St Anne's Church at the end of Load Street was originally a chantry chapel, said to have been built by fugitives so that they might claim sanctuary. The present church was built in 1746.

This possibly romantic view of rural England is balanced by the Hungerford Almshouses, built during the Jacobean period in 1668, which were charitable institutions to house the poor, and which overlook

Broadway and its continuation, the High Street, almost certainly follow the line of an ancient trackway that crossed the River Itchen during the Iron Age.

This photograph shows Kings Road at the point where it meets Cemetery Junction, to the east of the town.

Every town, village and hamlet had its market place; Pocklington market is still held on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

He swept into Wales at the head of a strong force, mopped up Tenby en route (capturing another renegade, Powell, in the process), and besieged Pembroke Castle.

Designed by Capt John Kitson, Royal Engineers, Fort Perch Rock was built between 1826 and 1829 at a cost of £27,000 to defend the seaward approach to Liverpool and the Mersey.

The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.

Work began in July of that year to prepare the estate for its opening as a park. The official opening took place on Whit Monday, 22 May 1893.

ST IVES, Bridge Street1955 S23004 Today, the bridge at St Ives is restricted to pedestrians, but up to fifty years ago, it was possible to drive a cart or a car over the bridge.

By the mid-1960s the university had embarked on an ambitious expansion programme complemented with an equally impressive building scheme.

Hamilton Square was laid out in 1826 by Gillespie Graham on the lines of an Edinburgh square.

A strange-looking craft heads southwards towards Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal. The pretty tower of the 14th-century church is clearly visible here.

Commoners could gather thatch for roofs, cut rushes to strew on the floor, dig sods of turf for fuel, catch wildfowl, and fish in the numerous small lakes as well as putting cattle, sheep and horses

On the downs above Osmington is this famous hill-figure of George III, 108 yards high and 93 yards long.

The artist Thomas Gainsborough was born here in a former 16th-century inn, and he lived and worked here for a number of years.

Eight years later, the South Pavilion at the end of the pier was destroyed by fire.

The gardens were used as the site for Orleans Park Secondary School in the 1970s, and all that now remains of the once celebrated landscape is a small garden next to the Octagon Gallery where the

Because of its situation on the Wash, Hunstanton is the only east coast resort where you can watch the sun set over the sea!

Despite a great deal of demolition in the 1950s, Bishop's Cleeve boasts many fine old buildings.

It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.

She has drawn her row boat up on the sand alongside the ivy-encrusted boathouse. All around is a scene of utter rural peace.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the Bure from the village street. Here are handsome pantile-roofed red-brick houses. A rotted hulk squats in a narrow inlet.

The road and rail bridge were built in 1856; today another bridge, built in 1970, runs alongside it, built with money from the Bridge Trust of 1391.