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The coaster 'Depa' eases her way into the city dock with a cargo of timber.

Later housing faces Victorian buildings on the edge of this large village. In days gone by, Sapcote was a centre for cheese-making and the framework knitting industry.

During the Hundred Years War Lymington supplied far more ships for Edward III's invasion of France than neighbouring Portsmouth did.

In Tudor times, the castle became the home of the Wyatt family.

Styled the 'capital' of Weardale, Stanhope was once an important centre for the lead-mining industry.

Here we see an exceptionally pretty village green, lined on all sides with trees.

Most of them are in the area known as Flegg, itself a Viking word for a marshy place.

These 18th-century properties are undoubtedly some that were part of the benefit bestowed by the Moore family in Aspley.

This tower was built in 1322 as an outwork to the tower on the north-west corner of the wall.

This part of Finchingfield is known as Duck End. The mill lurks behind the attractive cottages in the foreground.

By the turn of the century, it was able to boast a 'Grand tepid swimming bath ... Pure milk from own dairy farm.

This charming and ancient market town, between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands, takes its name from Floki, the name of a Norse settler.

Small merchant vessels and privateers were constructed during earlier times for trade and piracy, though in later years many of the shipbuilders concentrated on building and repairing fishing boats

Kings Walk leads us back to the exit, past the Victoria Statue unveiled in 1904 by the Duke of Connaught, after being erected by cadets and others who had connections with the College.

The pool was subsequently drained and filled in prior to the development of the later road system around Runcorn. Today the Daresbury Expressway literally flies overhead.

The Petersfield and Selsey gas-works were in Hylton Road; but all that is left on the site of the gas-works, now Tesco's car park, is a regulator valve in a compound next to the pathway into Hylton

A yachting regatta first took place off Cowes in 1776. The town's yacht club became the Royal Yacht Club in 1820 on the accession of George IV, a notable member.

The River Waveney has been the making of Beccles.

At one time they owned 200 fishing smacks, but by the end of the 19th century the big takeover by steam was just around the corner.

The distinctive large black gaff mainsail of a trading wherry dominates the skyline on the River Bure.

On the banks of the Little Stour, whose waters flow peacefully under the bridge on the left, the small general stores and post office on the right served this little hidden village with its 18th- and 19th-century

This attractive waterside village was the home of the novelist and poet Sylvia Townsend Warner for over forty years.

Who can imagine a seaside resort without its herd of gaily caprisoned 'mokes'? Neddy's perennial face appears everywhere, surely nowhere better represented than at Skegness'.

It is well worth the effort to climb up these rocks: you're on top of the world, if a little weary and overheated.