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Yet it was intermittent, and well into the 19th century there were fields on both sides of the road, while the postal address was 'near Worcester'.

The ruined walls are now free of the lush vegetation shown here, and well consolidated, but Easby Abbey is still privately owned (although in English Heritage's guardianship).

When the bishop of Bath and Wells visited in the early 14th century, he was not impressed with their conduct and commanded them to build the nearby parish church and provide it with a priest.

Wiveliscombe has been occupied since the Romans passed by, and during the medieval period it served as a summer residence for the Bishops of Bath and Wells.

can see old shops in the photograph— S Selvey, the grocer, and Wood, the butcher.The ancient market cross has been knocked down by vehicles and restored several times.The scene is similar today, and well

An example of immediately post-war council housing, this street is now leafy and well-established, and largely in private ownership.

Built on the site of a palace of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the present house dates from 1728.

The resort is described in an 1890s guidebook: 'it has a wooded and well-sheltered situation and a singularly lovely seaward prospect.

Votive offerings were often thrown into the water; today, tourists often so the same by throwing coins into fountains and wells.

Votive offerings were often thrown into the water: today, tourists often do the same by throwing coins into fountains and wells.

Long demolished, its site is now occupied by Technology House, a rather good 1960s building, long and well-proportioned and in generous grounds, the remnants of the school site.

This well-ordered scene is typical of the high quality ambience of the suburb as a whole, and well anticipated by the Midland Bank with its impressive, yet restrained, neo-classical frontage, exactly as

St Augustine landed here in AD597, and a St Augustine cross and well can be found at Cliffsend.

This view of the north or garden front shows the design of this beautiful and well-proportioned house with its projecting side wings and pedimented centre, the whole forming a letter H plan.

This charming little watering-place may be described as having a wooded and well-sheltered situation at the foot of the Penmaenmawr Mountain, and with a singularly lovely seaward prospect.

A pleasure steamer, the 'Queen of the Broads', crowded with tourists and well equipped with life belts, ploughs her way round the wide bend of the river Bure and down towards the sea.

This Wiltshire village grew up on three roughly parallel terraces on the steep and well-wooded Avon valley side, with the parish church at the south end.

Its name comes from the springs and wells in the area.

Luckily, the horses were freed as the stables collapsed, and next morning all twenty-two were found alive and well.

Here the photographer has positioned a number of smartly dressed and well-behaved children as artistically as he could; let us hope that their parents are looking on from behind the camera.

Trusts usually ran at a loss, but the Andover Turnpike Trust from Basingstoke to Lopcombe Corner was uniquely profitable thanks to Hampshire's stable and well-drained chalk.

The Victorian brick building (centre) was Carter's cycles and Wells's electrical shop.

The building still stands on the eastern side of the A540, close to Thurstaston, but it is now a very attractive and well cared-for inn, with manicured lawns, picnic benches and a mass of brightly coloured

Set in remote and well-wooded rolling countryside west of and utterly remote from Crawley, Rusper has a gently curving main street with many good houses and cottages.