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These limestone crags, at the western end of Stoney Middleton, are the haunt of modern rock climbers, and the 200 routes up them have gained evocative names such as Aurora, Alcasan and Armageddon

Mells Manor, largely Elizabethan, was built on the site of a medieval monastic manor.

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

Famous as the birthplace of John Macadam in 1756 and of Robert Burns in 1759, Ayr was founded under a charter granted by William the Lion.

We are looking back across the Wye to the village.

Many villagers left their homes here between 1830 and 1850 when the parish gave them money to go to Australia.

In the 1790s the Kennet and Avon Canal swept past at first floor window level of the 17th-century George Inn to cut it off from the High Street.

The church on the left is St John's, the tower of which is topped off with a small spirelet and dates from the 13th and 14th centuries.

Following the burning of Rye in 1377 and of Winchelsea in 1380, Bodiam Castle was built in 1385 because of the imminent threat of invasion by the French.

In 1879 Stratford acquired a striped, turreted, gabled fantasy known as the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.

This thatched cottage with its distinctive pargetting (moulded plaster decoration) was home to one of East Dereham's more infamous sons, Bishop Bonner, the Rector of nearby St Nicholas's Church in the

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.

The church on the left is St John's and dates from the 13th and 14th centuries.

Demolition took its toll on the left side of this picture.

Here we see motorists in the village—they are probably touring the area.

In the 12th century Alresford was a prosperous community - so much so that it was later considered one of England's most important wool markets.

These six ancient graves hewn from solid rock close to the chapel of St Patrick lie on the impressive Heysham headland.

Henry VIII was desperate for his son Edward to be married to the infant Mary, daughter of Mary of Guise.

Note how the 14th century north arcade of Polyphant stone contrasts with the more lofty granite south arcade which was built a century later.

The Blue Pool at Furzebrook, the best known of Purbeck's former heathland claypits was dug by Watts, Hatherley and Burns of Newton Abbot, in 1846.