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Originally designed in 1767 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Earl of Bute, this unique counrty house was reconstructed in 1843 after a fire in which little of the original building was left untouched.

The crews of the fishing boats prepare to hoist sail once they have cleared Hartlepool.

Bell Street, part of the original town of Sawbridgeworth, runs from London road eastwards towards the church and the school.

Ardingly is a village overlooking the Ouse valley, north of Haywards Heath. The 14th-century church of St Peter has an impressive tower. Ardingly College, situated nearby, is a notable Public School.

It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tailpole. The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron.

The church of St Andrew and the rear of the buildings in St Mary's Street sit on the spur of land surrounded by the River Avon which attracted the Saxon settlers.

Here we see the white-washed walls of the Willington Hotel. Willington is today overshadowed by the massive cooling towers of the huge power station to the east of the village.

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

This is an old village, but there are plenty of older habitations nearby: this part of Dorset boasts an impressive collection of earthworks, burial barrows, ancient ridge paths and strip lynchets.

He was Rector of Blunham from 1621 until his death in 1631, during which period he also held the post of Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London.

A small boy watches the antics of the Frith cameraman as he positions his camera for this picture of the main road to Sheffield.

Dronfield parish once consisted of the townships of Dronfield, Dore, Coal Aston, Holmesfield, Unstone, Little Barlow and Totley.

Portreath's first pier was built in 1760 by Francis Basset, a member of one of Cornwall's most prominent mining families.

The north side of Cobourg Street is almost unchanged.

Considered to be one of the finest Gothic Revival houses in England, Arbury is built on the site of an Augustinian monastery demolished during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Vast quantities of water are required to manufacture paper, hence the situation of the paper mill at St Neots on the Great Ouse.

Boscombe spent much of its history in Hampshire, until bureaucracy reassigned it to the County of Dorset in the 1970s.

The village nonconformist chapel is prominent on the right of this photograph of Frizington, a large former coal mining village just inland from Whitehaven.

This is a closer view of Darley Dale, looking towards the solitary tree-topped Oker Hill, which was the subject of a sonnet by William Wordsworth published in 1829 about two local lads going to war

De Montfort Hall has been used for nearly a century for all types of meetings, entertainment, education and civic celebrations. A host of stars have performed here, for the acoustics are first-class.

Whippingham village lies close to Osborne House, and Victoria's consort Prince Albert had a hand in the extraordinary design of the church.

There are few scenes on the Isle of Wight more captivating than Yarmouth harbour on a busy sailing day.

Because the town had been so heavily dependent on the single industry of fishing, the Depression of the 1930s arrived in Brixham early.

One row of houses further on is the line of the old Roman wall, whilst just off-camera to the right are the ruins of the Norman St Botolph's Priory, the first in the country founded by the Augustinian