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Looking out over Druridge Bay, the rectangular three-storey tower of the late 14th to early 15th centuries takes its name from the Cresswell family.

The village was created at the turn of the century to house construction workers for the very large brick-built Christ's Hospital school nearby.

The foundations of Harewood House were laid in 1759, and work continued for the next 23 years. Gawthorp Hall was demolished, and its foundations now lie beneath the lake.

Approach from the south, over a brook and through trees, to the 15th-century tower and slender recessed crocketed spire of St Mary's, standing over 200 feet high.

This fine pink granite church, mainly of the 15th century, is well sited at the head of Church Street. Its solid clasping buttressed and battlemented tower rises in four stages.

Despite a number of attempts at regeneration, the Lido at Ainsdale was an early casualty of the national move to overseas holidays.

On non-market days, the centre of St Ives was a quiet and unhurried place.

St Peter's stands in meadows beside the Usk, to the left of the A40 and just beyond the western outskirts of Abergavenny.

Moreton was a market town for the woollen industry in centuries past, and it was also an important centre for the linen weaving industry and a coaching town in the days of horse-drawn travel

The date of this photograph is the year in which the Duke of Bedford opened Woburn Abbey to visitors in the commercial sense.

The nave of All Saints' Church is Norman, with later windows of c1300. Only the chancel is now used for worship; the rest of the building is in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund.

In that year the cutlers of Sheffield presented a successful bill to Parliament.

On the exposed Wolds, the ironstone church is situated on the south side of the village street, away from the main A606 Nottingham to Stamford road.

The sign on the shop wall, where the tickets were sold, shows that admission to the Priory Church was 6d.

Although spinning and weaving were Paisley's main industries, there were also several shipyards along the banks of the River Cart. The longest lived was Fleming & Ferguson.

The church of St Margaret was rebuilt in 1852 and has a tower dating from 1507, which is just visible through the trees. The Pigeon House is a medieval yeoman's house.

He at once embarked on a programme of rebuilding and extension, doubling the size of the house, and moved the entire village of More Crichel except for St Mary`s Church, a mile away to the south in

The West Lodge and Gates are at the head of De Parys Avenue.

Its foundation stone was laid by the Marquess of Tavistock, the eldest son of the Duke of Bedford, in 1811. The costs proved high.

Beyond the route suggested in this chapter, which finishes at Bedford Park, the 1950s and 1960s expansion of Bedford to the east was well planned with parks, shopping parades and schools - many of the

The east side begins with the projecting porch of the 16th-century building known as the Old Castle (far left), which is now Bridport Museum.

Moving down the lane away from the green there is a row of architecturally more mixed houses, some 1840s Estate houses, others older before the Estate went into picturesque Tudor mode.

The actual width of the road can be estimated by assessing the relative sizes of the open-top bus and horse-drawn vehicle passing it.

This slow growth of population in the 1900s is explained by the fact that Runcorn was very much a cul-de-sac town.