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Built in flint, it is notable for its very short west tower and shingled broach spire.

It closed in 1990, and for a short while was an antiques shop which only opened on Friday afternoons. The property is now a private residence.

Construction began in 1089 on a site where there had been ecclesiastical houses of one sort or another since 681.

Behind the high brick wall to the extreme right of the photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne

The church of St Chad, with two bells hanging in its open belfry, stands a short distance down the lane opposite the Fenwick Arms.

Powered by two sets of inverted triple expansion engines, fed by eight boilers and 24 furnaces, the Eclipses could exceed 19-20 knots for short periods.

Shortly afterwards it was taken over by Henry Fourdrinier, one of the most innovative of local paper makers, but the cost of development broke him, and by 1808 he was bankrupt.

The church is a short distance from the Nower, another one of Dorking's parkland areas.

The banks of a short stretch of Milewater had once provided clay for bricks, tiles and a pottery.

A short- lived plan to reopen the camp three years later ended in bankruptcy.

Rockingham also built a short canal to link with the Dearne and Dove Canal.

Waterhouse, an eminent Victorian architect, most famous for designing the Natural History Museum in London, to design the new Grammar School buildings and the headmaster's house (right), seen here shortly

Those short of funds could take a non-landing trip to Burntisland for 10d return. One of the companies active on the Forth was the Galloway Saloon Steam Packet Co.

Once again, money was short, and maintenance was haphazard. The profits from the popular tower and its athletic track in the grounds was used to prop up other parts of the scheme.

Local collectors found themselves £100 short to complete the construction, so they turned to Trinity House, who donated the money on the understanding that the monument could be used as working lighthouse

It would be a short, exciting race of only a mile and a half for young untested three-year-olds.

The paddler pulling away might be the 'Ivanhoe', shortly after her sale to the Caledonian Steam Packet Co, but before her paddle-boxes were painted white and a bar installed.

The Roman Catholic Church, discounting the 1000 years or so before King Henry VIII separated the Anglican church from it, has a relatively short history in Godalming.

The castle was enlarged by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, during his spell as Guardian of the Western March toward Scotland, but its career as a fortress was short. A

At the mill, shots were exchanged, resulting in a watchman being wounded. The gang overpowered the other watchmen and factory workers and then smashed over 50 machines.

This short stretch of road, which joined Bury Road to the west with Queen Street, now Lower Queensway, became known as Broadway.

Other monuments in the church include a Purbeck tomb in the north chapel; this is a short tomb chest and canopy of three hanging arches on colonnettes with lozenge patterns.

For a short time after the opening of the nearby gas works in 1829 it was known by the hardly more attractive name of Gas Lane.

The town's two stations were built side by side, but the Bute Street link to Dunstable was closed during the short-sighted Marples era at the Transport Ministry in the 1960s - Ernest Marples employed