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This is the entrance to the Bishop’s Wood Fish Mine in north Wales overlooking Prestatyn. Despite the name, it was where lead was mined, not fish, wood or bishops. Opened in 1725 by the London Lead Mining Company, several tons were extracted but it was rarely deemed profitable.

Moses sings in the fifteenth of Exodus:

At Middleton near Sedbergh is found a Roman milestone. It was first discovered in 1836 by Richard Bownass of Hawkin Hall, who had ploughed it up and arranged for it to be re-erected, but not before adding his own inscription to commemorate the great event, which he described as "restoring it from the soil".

Gunby Hall by the Lincolnshire Wolds is a rather fine country house built in 1700 for some minor aristocrats, the Massingberds. The house was all very typical, with National Trust functionaries positioned in every room, regaling visitors with their scripted anecdotes of the various family members who once lived here.