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Thurlestone takes its name from a holed, or thirled, rock just out at sea in Bigbury Bay, which was mentioned in a Saxon charter way back in 845.

Limestone rocks are a major part of Lathkill Dale.

The tower, marking the eastern entrance to the High Street, dates back to 1492 and took seventeen years to complete. The delay was probably caused by lengthy financial problems.

A little way back from Freshwater Bay is the former home of the poet Tennyson, who loved the place but hated the constant procession of visitors.

This modest resort of broad beaches and spectacular rock scenery can be reached along the sands from Newquay.

The parked lorry belongs to Jones & Co, Corn and Seed Merchant; perhaps it is more than mere coincidence that a transport café is just across the road.

Helsby's name means the 'village on a ledge', but it would be more correct to say that it nestles just under the ledge or outcrop of rock seen here.

This picture of the famous lighthouse on Middle Head was taken from Bracelet Bay.

The Lodore Hotel, at the southern end of Derwent Water, is a fine Victorian Gothic structure, built at the foot of the twin cascades known as the Lodore Falls, which were very popular in the Victorian

The distinctive profile of the Lion Rock frowns down on the River Dove in the part of Dovedale known descriptively as the Narrows.

One of the strangest rock formations in the south-west, the Cheesewring near Minions on Bodmin Moor has been a place of pilgrimage for centuries.

The extensive remains of 12th-century Scarborough Castle crown the headland in the background of this summer time view of Scarborough's South Beach.

On the journey from Keld and Muker towards Hawes in Wensleydale we can see this awe-inspiring rock formation, which is created by water erosion.

Built in the late1820s, Fort Perch Rock Battery site was then manned continuously until the end of World War II.

We are now high above the famous Cow and Calf Rocks looking down the eastern side of Ilkley with the Ben Rhydding Hydro dominating the original hamlet of Wheatley, which was renamed once the hydro opened

This bleak, wind-blasted village, the most westerly in England, is known locally as Church Town. The low granite tower of St Senana looks down on the first and last hotels in England.

Known today for its caravan parks and the long sandy beach of Black Rock sands, Morfa Bychan, just west of Porthmadog, was long celebrated for the story of Dafydd Garreg-Wen, the blind harpist, known for

The grand old West End Hotel looks out over the promenade and Cardigan Bay at Marian-y-mor. The seafront terrace, West End Parade, was built in the late 19th century.

The ironmonger on the right has taken every opportunity to display the variety of his wares, though the children will almost certainly be more interested in the next shop along where both Chester rock

Troops were billeted at the shoreward end pavilion during the Second World War, though it had re-opened to the general public by 1946.

In the first letter of his Natural History of Selborne, Gilbert White described Selborne as consisting of 'one single straggling street, three-quarters of a mile in length, in a sheltered vale, and running

A big sea is running into the famous cove, as if to emphasise the rugged grandeur of the west coast of the Lizard.

With the town so resolutely proper, the pier was the mecca for the feckless pleasure-seeker. Noisy and colourful, it offered a myriad pleasures.

This is a good view of one of the few places with access to a good beach for many miles of slate coast, although even then the sand is covered at high tide. Gull Rock is offshore.