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Easily the oldest building in Farnborough, the parish church of St Peter dates from about 1200, although there is evidence to suggest a Saxon church may have occupied the site before

On the left of this view is Trinity College, which dates from 1759 and is 300 ft in length.

From the left are the Wesleyan chapel (1890), the old school, now empty, and the Friends' Meeting House and burial ground, dating from 1864. The market cross bears the date 1674.

Otherwise, there is little but the parked cars to give a clue to the date of this photograph. The timber-framed buildings, on the left, are believed to date from the 16th century.

Bindon Abbey was the location of an important Cistercian monastery and dates back to 1172. Little remains of the original building; this neo-gothic gatehouse dates back only to the 1790s.

Although the facade has a date in the 1680s, internal timbers in this building date from the 1400s.

The red sandstone tower dates from the 15th century, and may itself have been a rebuild on the base of an earlier structure.

Although the register dates from around 1560, the beautiful interior of the church owes much to restoration carried out in the mid-1800s.

The village of Bramber probably dates from the building of its Norman castle, since there is no evidence of a pre-Conquest settlement.

The school in the foreground dates from 1906, and beyond it, Brunner Guildhall and Verdin Grammar School both date from the 1890s. The latter is now used by the Mid Cheshire College.

The High Street has a fascinating diversity of provincial architecture dating from the 16th century through to the late 19th century.

Dating from 1926, the war memorial was opened by the Earl of Derby, though its cost was borne by Caleb Thornber, a cotton manufacturer and former Mayor of Burnley.

It dates from about 1860. The well pre-dated the cottage by a decade. Crays Hill National School used to stand amongst the trees on the right.

Its charters date back to c1179, although St Machar is said to have founded a church here in AD 580. This single-span bridge is situated a few hundred yards to the north of St Machar's Cathedral.

The earliest building work visible dates from the 15th century, and extensive 19th-century restoration means that apart from the west tower very little earlier work can be seen.

The buildings on the right were once part of Middle Farm and date back to Tudor times.

With parts thought to date from 1469, when the original hall was built by Piers Warburton, the present building largely dates from the 1830s and 1840s, and is considered an important example of the Victorian-Jacobean

Since then it has been replaced twice; the current wooden bridge dates from 1930, and was refurbished in 1979.

The building with the tall chimney stacks dates from the late 19th century; it was the Maternity Hospital and nursing home until the hospital moved to Burton Hill in 1925.

On the right is the former Coffee Tavern in a building dated 1710, and beyond that the side roof of The Woolpack, its building dated 1714.

Bromborough is an ancient settlement that dates back to Saxon times when King Alfred's daughter, Ethelfleda, had a monastery built here.

This red brick building is dated 1868 on the gable end. The 18th-century white plastered house is the former Town Hall, reminding us of the town's former borough status.

Ormskirk's parish church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, dates from about 1276. It is unusual in that it has a separate bell tower.

St Mary's, the parish church of Higher Brixham, was the town's original place of worship, dating back to the 15th century. There are some impressive altar tombs and a font dating back to the 1300s.