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During a French attack on England in 1545, a large fleet of warships anchored off Brading harbour in the hope that the English fleet could be lured out of Portsmouth.

During a French attack on England in 1545, a large fleet of warships anchored off Brading harbour in the hope that the English fleet could be lured out of Portsmouth.

In 1882 England played Australia in a cricket match; they lost so disastrously that they then ceremoniously burned the bails used during the match.

The Old Mill 1914 'And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill'.

Visitors clamber over the site of the old castle.

The castle and church have long been popular with tourists, many of whom stay to sample the delights of the Old Rosslyn Inn.

It is probable, given the number of stone circles found on Dartmoor, that a family or a group of families erected them for ritual worship, either to venerate the dead or for an astronomical purpose.

In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.

By the time that this photograph was taken, very little of Barry Castle remained.

To the right of Balliol College is the famous Martyrs' Memorial, commemorating the 16th-century Protestant martyrs Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer, who were burned at the stake in nearby Broad Street.

The men standing at the door on the left are customers of the Lion Inn, which burned down on 8 November 1908 and was never rebuilt.

Tennyson knew and loved Haslemere and the Surrey hills.

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

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

Epping Forest, which now covers some 6,000 acres, was ten times larger in the 17th century.

The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.

In 1698 the traveller Celia Fiennes noted that there was a considerable industry of cutting and burning the bracken on Cannock Chase.

Another well-known multi-national dominates this view; the branch has been here since about 1930, though the left-hand extension is a post-War development on the site of the Cinema de Luxe, which burned

St Andrew's is the mother church of Plymouth; there is evidence that a Christian community used the site as early as the 8th century.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).