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After a serious fire in 1975, the 18th-century building with the black cross facing us at the end of Bridge Street, formerly the Crown Inn, was demolished; this caused a major outcry.

The old library was on the other side of the road and had once been the Charity School.

As a break from a succession of market towns, the route heads north-west to Buckland St Mary, situated just north of the A303 and at the east end of the well-wooded Blackdown Hills.

The fourth tour starts in Worksop, the largest town in north Nottinghamshire, often seen as the gateway to the Dukeries.

There exists at least one account that states that the plague reached Newark in the summer of 1665, said to have been brought to the town in contaminated patterns of woollen cloths delivered to a draper

The first pit was sunk in September 1912, and a 'New' Rossington was created for the colliers and their families.

Castle Douglas lies close by the main road from Dumfries to Stranraer at the north end of Carlingwark Loch. Until the end of the 1700s it was known as Carlingwark.

Redditch town centre occupies high ground near the northern end of the prehistoric Ridgeway.

The Thames is quite wide at this point, and forms two separate streams as it flows on either side of Nags Head Island. The Nags Head Inn is the building we can see here at the end of the bridge.

Close to the northern end of London Road, the market place and the parish church, the weatherboarded Ebben Steam Bakery, now departed, contributes to the market town feel of the photograph.

From the High Street, walk down Upper Borough Walls on the site of the town's medieval north wall to turn left into Union Street.

Major high street names stood beside local businesses, and at the far end was the Capitol Cinema, one of several in St Helens.

It honours Edwin Waugh, Oliver Ormerod, John Trafford Clegg and Margaret Rebecca Lahee, but Tim Bobbin is a notable omission.

At the east end of Spilman Street is St Peter's Church, an old building on the highest ground in the older portion of the town. Little is known about this church, including the date of its erection.

This view shows the end of the Crescent Hotel and the Thermal Baths (right), and was taken from Spring Gardens.

The Highways Department had made a fine job of the flowerbeds of this roundabout at the North End of Northallerton, the busy little town on the River Wiske on the western edge of the North York Moors.

This is probably the most dull row of buildings in Edgware town.

The spire of St Mary's church soars above the town, and to the right is the boundary wall of Petworth Park, the great mansion built by the Duke of Somerset towards the end of the 17th century.

Two windmills once stood at this end of town, hence the name. Beside the clapboarded cottage is Franklin`s butcher`s shop.

During the summer of 1894, Oscar Wilde and his family occupied this house overlooking the sea at the eastern end of the extended Esplanade.

At the western end of Westgate, we see very clearly how the trees planted at either side of the road created a very attractive avenue effect when entering the town in this direction.

Beyond Westgate Street lies woodland and countryside, including Hardwick Heath. Today most of this area is covered by housing, part of the expansion of the town since the mid 1970s.

The Highways Department has made a fine job of the flowerbeds on this roundabout at the North End of Northallerton, the busy little town on the River Wiske on the western edge of the North York Moors.

There was a terrible fire in Wem in 1677, so most of the buildings in the town date from the 1700s or afterwards. One of the few earlier buildings is Dial Cottage, seen here on the right.