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It is the county town on the eastern side of the Island of Bute. The pier has changed little from how it appears in this photograph: in the holiday period it is still as busy as it was a century ago.

This chapter starts in the county town of Northampton – in its superb and large market square.

This is a well-kept Garden of Remembrance in the centre of this large village; next door is the County Library.

Built in 1813 by Oxley of Alford, it is a five-sailer owned by the County Council and often open to the public.

No doubt the kiosk sold tickets for the boats at the end of the pier, but for a generation which knew nothing of cars it also led to a railway system opening up the delights of County Down.

South-west of the town centre, along the Ampthill Road, on a large site between it and the railway line, the County Schools were built in the 1880s on a grand plan with a massive tower and,

It is now restored and car free; the central areas are surfaced with Denner Hill setts, a hard stone from the Chilterns above High Wycombe which is used all over the south of the county for kerbs and

The policeman standing on the road (left) was then part of the former Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Police Force.

This first one starts on the banks of the River Trent and crosses the grain of the county: the limestone ridge, the chalk Wolds, the flat lands between the hills and the knobbly coastal sand dunes.

Blackburn became a County Borough in 1888. On 5 November 1925 the Blackburn Church Diocese was founded, and the parish church became a Cathedral.

WILTSHIRE is a greatly underestimated county.

In the year of the photograph a telegraph pole was placed near the bridge; it now carries the town motto, 'Imperium in Imperio' ('a government within another'), an allusion to the county

The photographer almost had his feet in Sussex while taking this picture, so close was he to the county border.

The Post Office is to the left, the Harris Public Library on the right, and the County Sessions Hall in the middle.

Situated in the village which was the home of the powerful Cobham family, one of the county's most distinguished families from the time of King John to James I, this half-timbered pub is opposite the

On the wall is a bubble gum machine, once a popular feature of the frontage of every village store in the country.

The Gothic-arched County Bridge straddles what was the old border between Yorkshire and the Palatinate of Durham.

The first Woolworth's store was built on the site of Swindon's first permanent cinema, the County Electric Pavilion, in the 1920s.

At the centre of the junction is the fine war memorial cenotaph designed by Gilbert Ledward in October 1921 and unveiled by Lord Treowen, Lord Lieutenant of the county.

The tiny flint-walled church of St Mary was rebuilt c1135, and is one of the smallest in the county. It is only 60ft long, and consists of a nave and a lower chancel.

Situated in the village which was the home of the powerful Cobham family, one of the county's most distinguished families from the time of King John to James I, this half-timbered pub is opposite the

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Across the Colne the main road to Pinner reaches Batchworth Heath, just before the old Middlesex county boundary.