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Broad Haven is sheltered from south-westerlies by the bulk of St Bride's Peninsula.

Once upon a quieter time, the broad street through the village was perfect for a fair.

The Swan still exists, with its broad slipway, though today there are no such elegant rowing boats for hire.

This, the most westerly town in England, has been raided down the centuries by Spanish ships and by pirates.

The name comes from the copper works, which closed in the early 19th century.

When the new Worcester Bridge opened in 1781 it gave Broad Street quite a boost, helping it to support three coaching inns.

The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.

Barricane Beach is behind the camera, and we see the broad expanse of Woolacombe sands stretching away south towards Croyde.

In the second half of the 19th century, Coltishall was a major wherry building centre, and even at the time this photograph was taken, Allens were turning out the sleekest, fastest wherries on the Broads

The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the

Here we have a long view down a broad Wimborne street, with the towers of the Minster in the distance.

This 15th-century market cross stands in the centre of the village.

A young man enjoys the broad prospect of Gorleston sands from the worn and pocked cliff.

Broad Street is famous throughout Oxford for its assortment of bookshops.

Reed beds can be clearly seen at the far edge of the broad, with trees on land behind.

Fashions are on parade in the warm sunshine as the Victorian era gives way to the Edwardian.

Both the house and lodge are roofed in local Norfolk reed, known throughout the land as the best material for this purpose.

This building, which was part of Leeds University, was designed by T A Lodge and opened in 1951.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.

This view looks across the broad expanse of firm sands to a goods train, which is probably carrying slate on the now-vanished harbour branch of the railway.

Station Road, though quite short in length, still manages to achieve a broad mix of shops and dwelling houses.

In 1886 houses in front of St Mary's church were cleared; the railings date from about 1890.

Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels.