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This grand regency mansion was designed by Robert Lugar, an architect who specialised in castellated buildings. The

To the south of the harbour stood the power stations and gas works, the main users of coal, which represented over half of the port's total commodities by the end of the 1950s.

Corringham still has some old buildings. The

The river upstream from Kingston Bridge was largely free from commercial traffic, and consequently safer for yachtsmen.

Chapel Common has a quaint 16th-century chapel in a wood, with a new church of St Luke built nearby in 1878.

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eye- browed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings—the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing

Bognor's growth from a tiny fishing village started in the 1780s, with Sir Richard Hotham's grand scheme inland (immodestly named Hothampton) aimed at the nobility and gentry, but was followed by piecemeal

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

Bardfield has a wealth of old buildings: the house on the left is 15th-century, as is Gobions - the distant white house.

Within the short span of 40 years (1220AD-1260AD) the Cathedral was built uniquely in one Gothic style, Early English.

Frith's photographer was looking east, past the Town Hall on the right, towards St Nicholas's Church and the abbey gateway.

An ancient town situated on the River Cleddau, it has succumbed to modernisation in recent years.

Built in 1890 by Sir Thomas Jackson in limestone following the 17th-century collegiate style and blending in well with surrounding buildings. The

The post office on the left shut in 2004.

The Cock Inn and Peterhouse (left) are 17th-century buildings. The

This charming village straddles the banks of the River Bure amidst beautiful marshland.

This view up St Margaret's Street shows two fine Georgian buildings: the one on the left has a Tuscan-columned doorway, and the one on the right is Westbury House.

The large village of Heckington has two great buildings, the mill and the church of St Andrew, which is most unusual in that it was totally built in the same architectural style, Decorated, in a very few

Heading south towards Bourne, the route diverts north-east of the town to Edenham, a delightful village on the east bank of the winding East Glen River, whose church has many remarkable monuments to the

The view from this bridge has changed significantly in the last 50 years.

This view is rich in detail, including the station buildings, the footbridge, a water tower, semaphore signals, lamps and very tall telegraph poles.

Moving north of the Checker and across Abbey Close and into Abbey Gardens, we reach the site of the abbey church, which was about 300 feet long, and the cloisters and monastic buildings. The

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.

The original castle consisted of a three-storey tower with a large room on each floor, with other rooms off the projections.