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Saron chapel stands alongside Market Street on the extreme right.

It was built by a French architect with the splendidly florid name of Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter Destailleur for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, who had bought the estate in 1872.

At Evesham on 4 August 1265, Simon de Montfort led the barons against the forces of Henry III.

He was executed by the barons in 1312.

The magnificent late 12th-century priory church of St Mary and St Michael was founded in 1190 by William Marshall, Baron of Cartmel.

Grains Gill tumbles over a series of cascades beneath Stockley Bridge, near Seathwaite in Borrowdale, with Aaron Crags prominent on Seathwaite Fell in the background.

This picture of the Diamond now shows the elaborate neo-Gothic drinking fountain, the Rossmore Memorial, built in 1875 in honour of Baron Rossmore, a local dignitary.

We can see the monument topped by a dragon marking Temple Bar on the City boundary in the middle of the road.

The park is just one of the philanthropic actions of the local 'biscuit baron' whose firm, Huntley and Palmer, revolutionised 19th-century biscuit manufacture.

Grains Gill tumbles over a series of cascades beneath Stockley Bridge, near Seathwaite in Borrowdale, with Aaron Crags prominent on Seathwaite Fell in the background.

The only action the castle ever saw was in 1216, when it was occupied by the French at the invitation of the barons rebelling against King John.

The lonely car on the left carries local registration marks , -RA being allocated to Derbyshire County Council.

The little gatehouse is a folly built in 1777, while the Baron's Caves which lie beneath were used as a magazine during the First World War.

The Victoria Club for Working Men in the west corner of Kingsbury is another benefaction from the Rothschilds, in this case Baron Ferdinand of Waddesdon.

The car on the left is an Austin, and behind it is an MG.

The Town Hall was built in 1618, the gift of Sir Fulke Greville, first Baron Brooke, a friend of Sir Philip Sidney.

Founded in 1190 by William Marshall, Baron of Cartmel and later 1st Earl of Pembroke, it was a priory of the Augustinian Order and still serves as the parish church.

Baron Serlo de Burg built the first castle at Knaresborough, and during the reign of King John the fortress was also a royal arsenal for the manufacture of crossbow quarrels.

The town centre of Coniston shows a quieter scene than today, with just one car on the road and a pair of ramblers (right) setting out purposefully for the hills.

Low Petergate (seen in the previous photograph) and High Petergate run up to Bootham Bar, one of York's still surviving medieval gates in the city walls, and to the Thirsk road out of the city.

Barnston appears in the Domesday Book as 'Bernestone', then held by William Fitz-Nigel, second Baron of Halton.

The car on the left is leaving Village Way, and the bus is heading for the junction with Croydon Road.

This prominent local family also produced the lawyer William Norman Birkett, created 1st Baron Birkett in 1958.

Chantries were added to the original structure by the 14th Baron Greystoke, who built the first Greystoke Castle.These had painted oak screens, which were removed during the Reformation, giving the