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A mile east of the Culham Science Centre we reach the charming village of Clifton Hampden on its tree-covered cliff by the River Thames.

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.

After the Dissolution of 1538 nearly all the monastic buildings, including the great church, were demolished, some quickly, others more slowly, until little trace remained of the vast Benedictine

The Lion, a fine and historic building, had been largely demolished in the late 1930s and replaced by the pallid neo-Georgian Woolworth's building seen on the extreme left of the photograph and the more

Virginia Cottage is on the left, and the shop of shoemaker Fred Cox who was succeeded by Frank Cox.

A bracing north-easterly catches flags and furls the lugsails of three packed boats entering harbour.

We are in the extreme southern tip of the county: whilst Stanford Hall is in Leicestershire, the parish church and the village are in Northamptonshire.

As can be seen here, the river formed part of the castle's defences. The landward defences included a moat, a drawbridge and a barbican.

Marrying the Duke of Monmouth, she sheltered him at Toddington when his scheme to take the throne from James II came unstuck.

Blackburn possessed six parks, but Corporation Park was the one laid out on clear Victorian lines. Sixty acres were transformed with terraced walks, as we see here.

The art of bartering was just dying out. Fifty years before, you would spend a long time on every purchase discussing the price and making offers.

Here we see the front face of Owen's College on Oxford Road, and you can see similarities to the Assize Court, and even the Town Hall, all of which were designed by Alfred Waterhouse.

Stonehenge is the most well-known stone circle in the world, and this view is possibly one of the most remembered and famous.

The shop extension filled with shoes and boots is now filled with all manner of things for pets. On the other side of the road was a garage, which is now the Job Centre and the Sue Ryder shop.

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport. Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside.

The Old Priory Café, the gabled building on the left, now a picture gallery, has a 17th-century façade and a medieval jettied front with pargetting (plaster designs).

Grange-in-Borrowdale was originally founded as an outlying settlement from the medieval monastery of Furness Abbey. It is a popular centre for fell walkers. The peak of High Spy is in the background.

Gazing over the town of Windsor stands the imposing figure of Queen Victoria, depicted here two years before her Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

Founded in 1823, this building, at the foot of The Mound, housed a statue gallery when this picture was taken. There was also a collection of casts that was open only to art students.

The ornate Victorian shop fronts of Dawson's and the branch of the Enfield Co-operative store, on the right, with their elegant lanterns, are in contrast to the stern brick frontages across the

A line of parked cars, and a frozen foods van making a delivery, marks this mid-summer morning scene along the shopping centre of the village which, at the time, was already rapidly expanding.

The creators of the impressive neo-Jacobean panelling probably never expected that it would one day be partnered with a set of utilitarian chairs that would look more at home in a village

Long shadows indicate the end of a pleasurable day's sailing from this well-known beach.

Many of the buildings we see here had recently been built in the third and fourth quarters of the 19th century as the town grew on the prosperity brought to the locality by visitors.