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Seven miles from the Humber and to the west of Hull, Cottingham was another desirable place to live for prosperous merchants; in the 18th century there were five magnificent houses here, which were all

The gates on the right lead to Barn Hill House, which was fitted out at a cost of more than £3,000 as lodgings for Sir Robert Peel and other ministers during Queen Victoria's visit to Burghley House in

Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham.

Butlin House (left) has been replaced by a functional modern building.

Pokes are being unloaded into the oast house from a truck; the hops will be given some ten hours drying over the furnace.

Opposite is Redcliffe Lodge, and between the trees is Dendy's Parkfield House.

A narrow bridge crosses the River Rhiw and leads the eye to a group of genuine black and white Tudor houses.

Both villages feature many delightful stone and timber houses.

The Boat House Inn ferry offered a more sedate way of crossing the Severn than by the nearby Kingsland Bridge.

The houses past Burr Meadow and the Windmill pub (left) are known locally as the Three Bears - Little Bear, Middle Bear (Ivy Cottage) and Big Bear (Standon House).

We can see the Esplanade Hotel (centre) and Steartfield House (right), the homes of Mortimer and Washington Singer.

The house, which has splendid views over the town and valley towards Middleton, was built as a family home in 1881 for Mr and Mrs George Thorpe.

Fragments of it were used in the construction of the house, which was built in 1557 and enlarged in 1600.

Knowsley is the home of the Stanley family, and is one of the most imposing of the large houses around Liverpool.

On the south side is London House, the store of house furnishers Walter Baker Northover & Son.

The church, whose foundation stone was laid on 19 June 1888 by Joseph Wilcox, was built to replace the Old Meeting House of 1715.

It shows Westgate, the main thoroughfare of the town centre, and leading off to the left is Westgate Road, opened up in 1876 on the site of the former driveway to Sunnyfield House, a prominent private

Today there are moorings along the river bank, and housing development has completely swamped the old village.

This is Robert Raikes' house, his birthplace.

Another view of the mill, showing the attractive double fronted mill manager's house.

Large late Victorian houses lined Station Road, the adjacent Queensberry Road and the Headlands, built for businessmen who 'commuted' to London.

In the 19th century the court housed a brewery, a malt-house store and a factory producing Windsor chairs.

From this view of the crossroads, one can see The Redes on the left, and on the right, Japonica Cottage, which housed Netherbury Post Office.

When this photograph was taken, the richly pargetted Ancient House, which dates back to medieval times, was occupied by Fred Pawsey, selling books and stationery.