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This view illustrates the three main occupations of the people of Borth – seafaring, farming, and tending to the needs of holidaymakers.

Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.

The square is named after the founder of the burgh.

To the north of Borth lies Ynyslas, which consists of a fine series of sand dunes, many now protected as a National Nature Reserve.

This is the original nucleus of Borth village from which picture No 30253 was taken (page 59).

This small village had a café, the Dolybont Café (centre), whose sign was visible from the road between Talybont and Borth – the proprietors hoped that holidaymakers would stop on their way to or from

St Matthew's Church was built on a hillock a few hundred yards inland from Borth.

This is the first view that many visitors would have had of Borth.

were planted to commemorate AE Housman, the poet most famous for his volume of poems 'A Shropshire Lad' - one poem begins 'Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough

also met his death in the New Forest by 'a pestilential blast', while the King's nephew - also called Richard - died either by being shot by an arrow or by strangulation after being caught up in the boughs

Medieval Gothic arches can be seen beyond the splendid cedar's spreading boughs, while the rest of the house has more of a Tudor character.

Beyond them is the headland on which the Borth war memorial was built after the First World War.

Only the Burgh Heath Parade and the petrol station are recognisable today in this view from The Green, Reigate Road.

Much of Borth consists of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of

also met his death in the New Forest by 'a pestilential blast', while the king's nephew, also called Richard, died either by being shot by an arrow or by strangulation after being caught up in the boughs

Clydebank became a burgh in 1886.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

The mansion of the mighty 15th-century De Burgh family, with a great central hall and long side wings, it is a miracle it survived, having at various times been a prison, a factory and tenements.

It was made a royal burgh in 1592.

Nork is a suburb that merges south into Burgh Heath in the large triangle between Reigate Road, Brighton Road and Fir Tree Road, the north boundary of Nork.

Dumfries itself became a royal burgh in the 12th century, but the two towns were not officially amalgamated until 1929.

An ancient royal burgh, Perth was once capital of Scotland.

Jabez Goode was an interesting man who lived in Burgh le Marsh in Victorian times.

To the north of the north porch there is a massive, very ancient yew tree, its weary boughs propped on posts.