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The terraced gardens were its equal – both tropical and alpine collections shared space with an orchard and beautifully maintained tennis courts.

In the foreground, the garden area to the left was originally part of the orchard. Note the woman with a child in a pram at the front of the Hall.

Orchard Hill and Whitecross are at the top left, and the 893ft summit of Lewesdon rises centre left. The cottages and trees in New Inn Street are overlooked by the parish church (right).

Beyond is a thatched barn, now converted into a house, Orchard Barn. The other two houses are now much changed, with extensions and modern windows.

The brick-faced building with arched windows was the Angel Inn, which had an orchard and yard where the customers played quoits.

By Victorian times there were orchards, hop gardens and two sizeable breweries in the village.

Back in 1880 an orchard, stables, piggeries, a bowling green and two cottages surrounded the pub.

An early resident was the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, a contemporary of Charles Darwin, who lived at the now demolished Old Orchard in Wallace Road from 1889 until his death in 1913.

Just below the abbey we can see the extensive orchard which has now become the Cloister Gardens.

Technology buildings at Pond Street (now the city campus of Sheffield Hallam University) built between 1953 and 1968; the Cole Brothers department store in 1965, the Crucible Theatre in 1971 and Orchard

Technology buildings at Pond Street (now the city campus of Sheffield Hallam University) built between 1953 and 1968; the Cole Brothers department store in 1965, the Crucible Theatre in 1971 and Orchard

We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards.

Technology buildings at Pond Street (now the city campus of Sheffield Hallam University) built between 1953 and 1968; the Cole Brothers department store in 1965, the Crucible Theatre in 1971 and Orchard

The site was re-developed, and the Orchards shopping centre was opened there in 1982.

We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards.

We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards.

This was once part of a quiet residential area, with orchards and gardens.

This high village of the Weald looks out on a panoramic view of orchards and hopfields, although the foundation of its prosperity in the Middle Ages was based on weaving and iron-working.

Orchards and market gardens continued to spread over the former heath land to the north and east as the century advanced.

Then it moved into the Orchards shopping centre, off South Road, its current site. During this time, a series of sub-post offices were established throughout the town.

I'd spoken to Dennis Orchard ten minutes before he died. They were working on the early jet engines in V block.

The spire behind is that of Chard's large Congregational church.

At the bottom end of Fore Street, on the right, is another Elizabethan building: the old Grammar School of 1583, with its tall porch bay, now part of Chard School.