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These limestone crags, at the western end of Stoney Middleton, are the haunt of modern rock climbers, and the 200 routes up them have gained evocative names such as Aurora, Alcasan and Armageddon

Bursledon village consists of two distinct halves - the new and the old.

This photograph exudes the atmosphere of well-manicured countryside.

Road access between the seashore cottages of old Saltburn and the new town required a steep incline, which has been the scene of some spectacular runaway vehicle crashes.

Here Broadgate starts to climb out of the valley.

The 13th-century fortress at Inverlochy is a quadrangular enceinte with a round tower at each of the angles; the largest of these is known as Comyn's Tower, and forms the donjon.

The broad steely sea, marked only by faint lines, which had a semblance of being etched thereon to a degree not deep enough to disturb its general evenness, stretched the whole width of his front

Herbert H Raphael`s gift to the town of 20 acres of parkland and lake was given out of generosity, but he may also have been concerned that his envisaged development of the select Gidea Park Garden Suburb

Just down in the dale from Askrigg, on the banks of the River Ure, stands the ancient village of Bainbridge, once the capital of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th century as the Forest and

This view of Pateley Bridge, 'capital' of Nidderdale, was taken from Station Square and the bridge over the River Nidd.

Overton is the home of the famous paper mill that supplies paper for Bank of England notes.

There is hardly a ripple on the water of the lake in Raphael Park, ideal for a spot of punting.

Shown here, just past the Congregational Church, is the lower part of the ­cultivated gardens of the Convalescent Hospital.

London Road, as the name implies, was the turnpike from London; it climbs up to the Wheat Sheaf, one of several coaching inns in Daventry.

The house, which was at one time the largest building in the north of England, was built by Sir Nicolas Sherburn (Shirburn) around 1690.The estate was left to a cousin (named Weld) who gave it to the

The Village 1903 Just off the road between Lyminge and Hythe, this jettied timber-frame cottage stands at the approach to the 13th-century church.

The ruins of Bungay date from the reign of Edward I, but there was once an earlier castle on the site which had been owned by Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk.

The William Brown Library, with its fine portico of six Corinthian columns, was built in 1860 to house the natural history collection of the 13th Earl of Derby; this had been bequeathed to the town in

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

FOR MANY YEARS, after the decline of the weaving industry, the manufacture of rubber linked the two West Wiltshire towns of Bradford on Avon and Melksham.

A branch of Stead and Simpson, a shoe shop, is on the right directly opposite Cash & Co, also a shoe shop.

The faces on the statues, probably the portraits of local inhabitants, were meticulously painted, despite the fact that the artists and sculptors knew they were not visible from below.

Henry Frederick, Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk left his estate to his fourth son, Charles Howard of Greystoke, when he died in 1652.

Note the New Inn on the left of the picture, and how large the name-board of the publican was.