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Port Isaac made front page news in 1999 when local farmer Robert Sloman's Landrover went out of control on the steep hill behind the village.

Only just visible on the horizon is part of Lancaster University. The mainstay of Galgate villagers from 1790 to 1960 was the silk mill, where 400 people worked during the mill's heyday.

Quite early in the 19th century the University of Durham began offering places to those without means. Hatfield College opened in 1846.

The Kennet and Avon Canal, authorised by Act of Parliament in 1794 and opened in 1810, linked Bristol with London, cutting a canal from the Avon in Bath to the Kennet, which was then canalised to the Thames

Continuing uphill past the end of The Paragon and at the junction with Guinea Lane, Roman Road heads for the junction with a steeply climbing Walcot Street and London Road.

Here we glimpse the High Street through the arches of the Market Hall, which was built in 1627 at the expense of Sir Baptist Hicks.

Four miles from Stroud, picturesque Painswick titles itself 'Queen of the Cotswolds'.

This is the main road that links Ironbridge with Coalbrookdale, the place where the Industrial Revolution really did start in 1709 when Abraham Darby I discovered a method of smelting iron

A carved inscription on the front of the building tells us that at the time of the fire it had just been built (some six years previously in 1577) for a wealthy merchant named Rychard Churche

Substantially rebuilt by the Earl of Leicester in the 1880s, the village provides homes and a community for his staff. The far right building was the Reading Room; today it is the social club.

A number of the boats here were still working boats at this date; fishermen took them out to sea to mussel beds renowned for the size and quality of their shellfish.

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a sturdy 14th-century building with a 13th-century western tower.

Originally called the St Leonard's Hotel, the Royal Victoria was the first principal building of the new town laid out by James and Decimus Burton.

This view looks into the Trinity Chapel, with the tomb of a wool merchant on the right. On the left, a curtain covers the north door. The same radiators are in use to-day.

A visitor from 1955 would be rather confused by this view (taken from the gateway of Cotton End House), as the war memorial was moved in 2001 from the centre to the right-hand side of the road and

The route ran through this area of marsh and woodland known as the Heronry. With the relaxed timetable of the Southwold line, there was ample opportunity for poaching en route.

Continuing eastwards along the A52 beyond The Sherwin Arms, we come to a complex of council schools, both primary and secondary, built in Bramcote Hill Park.

A chance for the local people to relax sailing on one of the canal reservoirs. These were built along the Grand Union Canal to maintain the water level in the canal.

Situated on the junction of Telegraph Road, Brimstage Road, Barnston Road and Chester Road, one of the busiest in West Wirral, this atmospheric pub has changed little in appearance since

The present building dates from 1769, although it contains within it parts of an earlier medieval building.

The 'City of Bristol' foundered on the Llangennith sands in 1840. According to the Cambrian newspaper, 27 people drowned, but pigs and cattle swam ashore and were penned at Cwm Ivy farm.

This church was built as part of the 'suburban' church movement for dealing with the expanding industrial towns of Wiltshire.

The Church of the Holy Saviour was built between 1876 and 1880 with money raised by the Phipps family, who had been connected to the woollen industry since the 17th century.

The Market Hall is just visible on the left, and the area beside it still serves as the town's main bus terminal.