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It is almost impossible to believe that this huge stretch of placid water was hacked out by men seeking fuel for their hearths.

Sunset against sombre skies, dark shadowy trees, an invisible breeze, the slap of waters among the reeds... a woman in pinafore dress and bonnet punts her way home after the day's toil.

The Aire and Calder Navigation of the late 18th century opened up trade between West Yorkshire and the Humber, and thence to the rest of Europe.

The Natural History Museum opened in 1857, with Dr David Livingston giving the inaugural lecture on African fauna.

There is little motorised traffic, but several bicycles can be seen in this picture of the High Street in busy Bagshot.

To the left can be seen the two long windows of the surviving Blue Boar on the corner of Dear Hay Lane, but behind to the right is the Police Station, which was destroyed by fire in the

William Thomas, named on the sign, was listed in a directory of the time as a carpenter and proprietor of the Land's End 'refreshment house'.

The rails here are presumably a siding, for the Tavistock line ran across the picture a little way past the far end of the terrace, while the Princetown branch curved round to the south (left, well out

Although nothing remains of it today, there was a St Mary's Church here in the 11th century, which at that time was the most famous building in Oxford.

Peeking over the roof of the bow-fronted pharmacy is the castellated tower of St Mary's church, a building that dates from the 12th century, and largely rebuilt in the 15th century.

Ashwood Dale is just one of the names given to the deep limestone valley of the River Wye as it winds between Bakewell and Buxton.

Now being gradually subsumed into Aldershot's 21st-century sprawl, Tongham was once an important part of the brewing business in the Blackwater Valley, as the chimney of the oast house at this crossroads

The long, narrow High Street, with the Rose & Crown Inn on the right, is at the foot of a steep hill overlooking the sea.

The village of Cound is split in two by the Coundmoor Brook - this photograph was taken in Upper Cound, which is separated from the earlier part of the village (where the church stands).

East Runton cliffs were noted for their unusual 'contorted' strata containing huge masses of chalk.

St Bride's Hotel was built on the site of an old white house where previously a farm had stood.

Chamberlain Gardens occupy part of the land given to the parish by the Misses Chamberlain, who lived at Bury House. On the left, the Vicarage was built in 1989-90.

Both public house and petrol station prospered with the increasing volume of traffic on a road that the Edwardian topographer Sir Frederick Treves had described as 'a delightful walk'.

The sloping Market Place leads up to the white-paint- ed clock tower of the town's octagonal Moot Hall, which was built in 1817.

The Welsh slate industry developed in the heart of the mountains, and this resulted in settlements in some very bleak and exposed places.

St Luke's Church dates from the 12th century, but little remains of the original.

It is a busy beach in the Swinging Sixties: these people are not day trippers to Heysham, but guests of Middleton Towers who have made their way to the beach for a day of free activity and entertainment

This is an attractive approach road into the town centre of Sleaford. The grass verge has gone to make way for a cycle path.

The needle-thin 15th-century spire of St Mary's parish church at Hemingborough seems disproportionate to its low, 13th-century central tower.