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From the Crown and Anchor pub on the left, the A6 trunk road heads away to Hadley Wood and on to Coventry, while on the right, the gleaming frontage of Clark's shoe shop reflects the passing scene.

The name Hest comes from 'hyrst' (a copse or wood), and the name was first recorded in 1184.

The church of St Peter, with its 14th-century tower made entirely of wood and supported inside by a framework of huge oak timbers, also has a 13th-century chancel and a south aisle added a hundred years

Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect

It is thought that the name derives from the Welsh `porth coed`, or `the harbour below the wood`, and indeed it may well have been the port for the nearby Roman town of Caerwent.

Nestled in the rear slopes of the North Downs, the village derives its ancient name from the Saxon word 'wudmeresthorn', meaning 'thornbush by the boundary of the wood', and was mentioned in the Domesday

The original tower was probably the first part of the castle to be built of stone, though its internal buildings were still wooden.

In the decades that followed there were a number of minor landslips, forming the wild and jumbled wood and cliff that we see today.

Hancock & Wood and Roberts shoe shop are almost all that remain of this 1950s scene.

The three-gabled house on the right, Hartshorne House or the Old Hospital, 15th-century and 1576, was described in 1863 as 'an unsightly pile of wood and plaster too dilapidated to allow the lowest to

Inside there are elaborate wood and stone carvings, a hammer-beam roof and a modern altar-screen, which is a war memorial.

Stafford Almshouse, now privately owned, was originally the home of a priest until 1548, when it became an almshouse for 'two poor widows to be given 20s for wood and 20s for clothing every year'.

Wood and parts of the ship soon sank into the sand, but the bales of cotton did not. Then grass started to grow on the cotton bales, and this held firm in the sand.

During race week the firm of Barnards put up temporary stands of wood and canvas along the course to the right, and on the left there was a smaller stand built for the Prince Regent.

millennium, it is now time to update the town centre's image by developing high quality, long lasting Visionary Buildings and Open Spaces During the severe flooding in September 1958, bits of wood and

The roof is chestnut wood, and on the shields between the ribs are carved emblems of the Passion.