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This picture postcard village is strung out along the road, with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford

It has a Norman flint-built round tower, and a fine shingled octagonal spire.

It was constructed primarily of wood, except for the section that passes over the river bed, which is of iron girders and pile-driven steel cylinders.

This is the inner pool of the Cobb Harbour; we are looking north-westwards to High Cliff, prominent on the wooded hilltop (left).

Tregenna Castle was built as a house for John Stephens in 1774 to the designs of John Wood the younger, the well- known architect of Georgian Bath.

Opened in 1874 the line was much used for sending timber from Edenhall Woods, as well as local dairy produce and potatoes. The old station now houses a tearoom.

The surrounding gardens contained tennis and croquet facilities, together with delightful wooded walks.

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet

This view of the village was taken in the days before its castle, once the home of Anne Boleyn, became internationally famous and attracted hordes of visitors.

Billy Banks Wood, prominent in views from Castle Walk, is ancient 'hanging' woodland clinging to limestone rock on the south bank of the River Swale just west of Richmond Castle.

The horse chestnuts (left) belong to the Rookery woods, while on the right is Nag's Head Island with A W H Halford's premises, the long shed-like structure, offering boats for hire.

On the lane south from the crossroads the last two houses on the left are timber-framed, the White Cottage on the left with original framing in the side elevation and fake to the front.

Take a fond farewell/From one unused to sight of woods and trees,/ Amid the strife of cities doomed to dwell,/Yet roused to ecstasy by scenes like these;/Who could for ever sit beneath thy trees,

The coming of the railway put Whitby on the tourist map; its harbourside streets, ruined abbey, and souvenirs made from jet, which is a fossilized wood found locally, all proved a magnet for holidaymakers

The path beckons the visitor to venture into the woods to discover the story that this castle might tell.

In the 1920s, when the Lickeys were at the height of their popularity, several tea rooms were in business, and this one was still going strong in the 1950s.

Take a fond farewell/From one unused to sight of woods and trees,/ Amid the strife of cities doomed to dwell,/Yet roused to ecstasy by scenes like these;/Who could for ever sit beneath thy trees,/Inhaling

Anchor Wood is a narrow band of trees with a pleas- ant walk overlooking marshy ground downstream of the Long Bridge and at the foot of Sticklepath.

Inland from Eype, towards the Marshwood Vale, Symondsbury clusters between Colmer's Hill and Old Warren Wood (centre skyline).

Swanwick and neighbouring Bursledon, on the extreme left of the picture, are popular villages on the banks of the Hamble.

Built by William de Albini in the 12th century, Castle Rising sits inside a ringwork, with a small bailey on either side; these defences may originally have been constructed of wood.

This splendid branch railway ran from Ulverston to Newby Bridge and Lakeside at the foot of Windermere.

This photograph shows the wooded valley at Capel Curig. In the Victorian era it was very popular with anglers, and there were coaches carrying visitors from Betws-y-Coed to Bangor and Llanberis.

Now merged with Dorking, North Holmwood is one of three small villages along the west side of the large and mostly wooded Holmwood Common - the other two villages are Mid Holmwood and South