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The village was formed around a Celtic monastery, which in turn became a shrine to St Cedd in 1078. 19th-century architecture took hold in the village after the building of Lastingham Grange.

This small market town on the banks of the Sow was entitled to hold four annual fairs, mainly for the buying and selling of horses and cattle.

The Saxon church is a well-known local landmark, with a distinctive and very unusual cap on the tower known as a 'Rhenish Helm'. This design is quite common in the Rhineland.

The Victory Hall means that Mobberley's original place-name meaning 'the clearing in the forest where meetings are held' still holds true today.

The right to hold a weekly market and an annual fair was granted in 1227. These continued to be held until the 1960s.

Kendal was granted the right to hold a market as early as 1189, when it was also made a barony.

Lynn has two market places, holding markets on different days of the week. The large stone building is the Corn Exchange, built in 1854: Ceres, the goddess of plenty, stands at the top.

The port had kept abreast of technology: massive cranes on tracks have appeared, which could lift an entire coal wagon and dump it into the ship's hold.

The statues on the parapet are holding rocks or boulders, and are ready to throw them at any invader.

The Church of St Just has a 15th-century tower which was built to hold a light for shipping. This may have helped local boats, but the nearby Dodman Point claimed many ships.

At least seven sailing vessels are floating in the harbour, thanks to the lock gates which hold in the water. Chutes descend from Quay Road in front of the terraced houses for loading china clay.

Endowed by both the Harpur Trust and the Bedford School Trust, the former owns the school - and three others in Bedford - and the latter exists to hold certain funds and property for its general benefit

As well as public parks and memorial gardens, Aldershot is famous for its enormous open-air swimming pool, which covers an acre and can hold a million gallons of water.

As well as public parks and memorial gardens, Aldershot is famous for its enormous open-air swimming pool, which covers an acre and can hold a million gallons of water.

Kirkbymoorside, on the edge of the North York Moors, still holds its market every Wednesday, just as it has done since medieval times.

This small market town on the banks of the Sow was entitled to hold four annual fairs, mainly for the buying and selling of horses and cattle.They were held on Midlent Thursday, Holy Thursday, 5

The town council still holds its meetings at the 17th-century Town Hall - note its open loggia. The building is owned and maintained by a charitable trust.

A wagoner has dismounted to hold his horse steady for the camera. He is carrying a load of logs.

The Wakeman was the title of the chief magistrate of the town; Hugh Ripley was the last to hold the office under that title.

In the 1960s their advertisements often showed a jovial man holding a pint and a caption reading 'Drop in for a while at the pub with a smile'.

Raglan was the last castle to hold out against Parliament in 1646. On his restoration, Charles II rewarded the Pembroke family by raising it from an earldom to a marquessate.

The Birkenhead and District Co-operative Society shop on the corner now holds a conservatory showroom.

Today, the ivy has really taken hold of the gate-piers. The Dog is still open for business, but not, one suspects, to many Hillman Imps.

The prac- tice of holding the Parliament at Crockern Tor, 1,200 feet up in the middle of the moor, had very sensibly ceased some time before.