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The River Taff is meandering out to sea in Cardiff Bay in this scene, and in the foreground is a most congenial crescent of well- proportioned Victorian middle-class residences.

This view shows Carbis Bay when it was still largely undeveloped, with just a scattering of houses above the cliffs overlooking the sandy beach.

St Mary's can be seen to the right. Slightly to the left is Brownston House, one of only two Grade I listed buildings in town. It was originally built in 1700, but was rebuilt later in 1720.

Wildersmouth Bay was the original bathing beach of the town; those beaches to the west only became accessible after the drafting in of Welsh miners to dig the tunnels by which they are now reached.

West Bay is the small port of the neighbouring town of Bridport.The River Brit, which gives the larger town its name, is held back by a series of sluices and released at low tide.

Round the corner to the Eastbourne Road, with The Bay Hotel on the right, the architectural quality drops sharply to typical seaside nowhere.

Greenodd stands on the Leven Estuary where the River Leven from Windermere and the River Crake from Coniston Water flow into Morecambe Bay and the Irish Sea.

This splendid early 19th-century house is the former rectory. The symmetrical front has five window bays; the central bay over the porch has rounded tops.

The Beach c1955 Totland Bay is a good starting point for a long coastal ramble past The Needles to Alum Bay - some of the most dramatic coastal scenery in England.

Tourism was boosted in 1930 by the opening of the high-class Carlyon Bay Hotel on a headland overlooking St Austell Bay.

Colwell Bay, just west of Yarmouth, has a good mile of sand sheltered by the low cliffs behind.

West Bay assumed the role of port for the nearby town of Bridport, but it only acquired its present name in the 1880s with the arrival of the railway.

The old lifeboat station at Runswick Bay on the North Sea coast is rather incongruously painted with black and white half-timbering in this photograph.

Llandudno stands back against the mass of the Great Orme's head, which shelters it from north winds, and on a neck of sand between two bays, which are so close together that in rough weather their spray

Bridport haven, an estuary under East Cliff, became Bridport Harbour as we know it in the 18th century, with the final layout taking shape in 1824.

The latecomer amongst Dorset's holiday haunts (the author Thomas Hardy called it Port Bredy), West Bay hamlet grew up around historic Bridport Harbour (centre) and its double piers, which protect a ship

This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.

The Promenade above Main Bay (Viking Bay) overlooks the harbour; Edwardian promenaders are taking the air.

This is another small bay with good shelter and fine sands - here only two boats were built. Until the 1850s there was just an inn and a cottage in the bay, with a limekiln nearby.

The exposed headland separating Newquay Bay and Fistral Bay has always been a popular walk from the town.

The many bays and inlets of Connemara are dotted with little harbours and villages. One of the largest is Roundstone, situated on the coast road between Recess and Clifden.

Greenodd stands on the Leven Estuary where the River Leven from Windermere and the River Crake from Coniston Water flow into Morecambe Bay and the Irish Sea.The line of the Furness Railway, built

The long range of buildings on the left is the Cornwall Minerals Railway locomotive works, built in 1872-74 by Sir Morton Peto.

The original timber building, dating from c1580, has two gables; the brick extension to the right is 19th-century.