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Sited at the critical junction of the A428 Bedford/St Neots, Blunham/Staughtons roads, it is perhaps not surprising to find opportunity for a variety of forms of refreshment.

This broad road leading into the heart of the town is bounded by 17th- and 18th-century buildings.

In 1796 the old tower was pulled down and a new one built, and in 1808 the main body of the church was demolished and rebuilt at a cost of £842.

They initially consisted of a jetty leading to a landing stage for boats, but they soon became fashionable promenades extending over the sea.

Here lived some of the workers in the salt mines, including Joe Danson, Jack Fairhurst, and Bill Davis.

The rural nature of Thornton Cleveleys away from the coast persisted. On the right is one of the old farmsteads.

The King's Arms (left) is a fine example of a coaching inn and former posting house. Stables to the rear were reached through the archway leading from the town square.

This water-mill, powered by a hidden undershot wheel, stands on the bank of the river Bure, and is built of entirely of wood. There are two large millstones leaning on the small annexe.

Fritton Lake, like the Broads, originated as a series of peat pits in the medieval period. It was later used as a duck decoy. The ducks were drawn into the decoy by the decoy man's dog.

The crew of a sailing dinghy are apprehensively watched by the relaxing occupants of a punt as it manoeuvres past in a steady breeze.

The Star Inn is now more of a brasserie than a pub, and the adjacent post office has been replaced by a television and video shop.

This summer recreation corner on the banks of the Wharfe lay below the present Collingham Wood House on the Wetherby road.

Just west of Reeth is Healaugh. The original village used to be up this gated lane higher on the moors.

Monk Bar is one of the finest gates in the city walls and the closest to the Minster on Goodramgate. It is vaulted on three floors, and still has a working portcullis.

There was a time when Barnard Castle was one of a number of prosperous towns in the Palatinate; the others were Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton, Sedgefield, Staindrop and Wolsingham.

The 236ft single span cast-iron bridge was built between 1793 and 1796, and was considered to be one of the engineering masterpieces of the day.

In 1819 Charles Stewart (later the third Marquis of Londonderry) married Frances Anne Vane-Tempest, heiress to an extensive property and coalowning empire.

A positive cats-cradle of wires weaves above the roadway, with telephone cables, suspended street lighting and the power cables for the silent-running electric trolley buses contesting the airspace.

As we look at this mundane street as it drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning

Leamington's development as a spa did not begin until 1789, when William Abbotts discovered a mineral spring on his land in what is now Bath Street.

Around the beginning of the 20th century there was little difference in the cost of accommodation at either the Victoria, the Prince of Wales, or the Royal, though eating at the latter was slightly

This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

The original church was built on high ground above the River Tame, on Old Church Road. It was founded in 1347 as a chapel of ease to Aston.

The clear, shallow and gently-flowing waters of the River Allen, fed by the natural chalk reservoirs of Cranborne Chase, make it an ideal habitat for rushes, and commercial rush-cutting flourished here