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By the 1650s Lionel Copley had become one of the leading ironmasters in South Yorkshire, thanks to a leasing arrangement with the Earl of Shrewsbury which gave him access to Shrewsbury charcoal woods and

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

The steep, densely wooded gorge below Dartmeet is a wild, inaccessible place, and farmers, exhibiting their usual good sense, have never tried to cultivate it.

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

During World War II the forest was laid with temporary roads and was used as a bomb dump and collection point for tanks and other equipment in preparation for the D-day invasion of Europe.

Nestling among expansive woods and fields, St Neot is famed for its church, with its magnificent 14th century stained glass windows.

The Truro River promises visitors exquisite scenery, its broad banks enriched with lush green woods.

As with many Victorian seaside resorts, Saltburn boasted elaborate, well kept, (and labour intensive) public gardens, as seen here in the Italian Gardens.

The lady in her long black dress and the gentleman wait for the ferryman to take them across to the western side of the lake, where the wooded Claife Heights stretch away to the right.

This quiet little corner is on the north side of Torquay and reached by way of a romantic wooded ravine.

A timeless scene in one of the many creeks of the long estuary that runs between Salcombe and Kingsbridge.

This quiet little corner is on the north side of Torquay and reached by way of a romantic wooded ravine.

It is an octagonal structure made of wood with an unusual three-tiered dome. The town took the cross over and installed a chimney clock in 1899.

Yarmouth Pier opened in 1876, and was built out of wood, a common material for the less elaborate piers.

Woods Corner is a hamlet in the parish of Dallington, about four miles north-east of Herstmonceux.

In the 19th century, this area south of Dorking was a wild and dangerous part of Surrey, where highwaymen pursued their villainous trade and smugglers transported their contraband goods at night along

The castle and the south- eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to

Rifts Wood, the area between the old town and the new town, was spanned by a pedestrian bridge known as the Ha'penny Bridge, under which were laid a series of lovely gardens, including

Blakeney stands at the edge of the Forest of Dean at the point where Blackpool Brook and Soudley Brook meet.

Benfleet's wooded hills once provided vital material for fuel and boat-building.

Note the unmarked roads, the shops on the left (D H Davies and M Woods) and the various forms of traffic (there are bicycles and motor cars, and a bus on the left).

The Plantation and Madeira Walk below The Beacon and Louisa Terrace are a delightful stretch of green wooded shelter on hot days.

This is the administrative centre of the city, with the late 19th-century County Hall, the Court House and the Town Hall.

The entrance block of the theatre was formed from Beau Nash's first house in Bath, a pre-Wood era building of 1720 with heavy moulded window surrounds and cornices.