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This view, taken from the Abbey's aisle roof, again shows the Guildhall to the right; much of the left hand side has now been rebuilt, including the Christopher Hotel, in 1960s bland and cheap neo-Georgian

Holy Trinity was built in 1838 at a cost of £3700 on land given for the purpose by William, sixth Duke of Devonshire.

The Market Hall was designed by Davies & Sons and completed in 1857 at a cost of around £8000.

Yewbarrow Terrace, with its colonnades and cover for shoppers, had only recently been built at this time, but it still looks the same over 100 years later - even the rings to which to tie horses remain

In April 1941 the house suffered some damage during an air raid, but it was in good enough repair to provide Winston Churchill, then the local MP, and his wife with luncheon whilst touring the district

Manor Hall was built shortly after 1935 as a dance hall at a time when a number of residential estates were being built south of Manor Road.

The Ship was once famous for its quoits lawn. It hosted the annual Peachey Quoits Cup Championship - Mr Peachey was the owner of some nurseries in the village.

With no village centre to speak of, except where the Gothic/Tudor-style Hautboy Inn stands, Ockham is nevertheless a pleasant community of leafy lanes.

Deep within The Hurtwood at Abinger Bottom are several stone-built cottages surrounded by pine trees. A stream, that eventually joins the Tillingbourne, runs through the hamlet.

The original Charter for this busy market was given around 1250 at the time the town became a borough.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises 800 feet at the back of the town.

These are the original university buildings at Western Bank, built between 1903 and 1905.The university was an amalgamation of three earlier institutions, the Sheffield School of Medicine, the Firth

At the beginning of the 11th century Wales, the 'territory of the Welshmen', was owned by the wealthy Mercian thegn Wulfric Spott, who also owned lands in Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

The tower and spire, which reaches a height of 124 feet, were added later in 1891, as a memorial to Freda, daughter of the Reverend Middleton, vicar at the church for 27 years.

Looking westward, this is the top lock of the Caen flight, which at one time had gas lighting installed for night time working. However, the economic life of the canal was short-lived.

hide the identity of Whittingtons, Outfitters, soon to be Fosters.

It is a summer morning and high tide outside the Palace of Westminster, with the barges at anchor.

Two Thames sailing barges discharge cargo at low water on the beach, whilst drawn higher up are some bathing machines.

There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.

Abbotsbury, situated at the western end of Chesil Beach, is most famous for its swannery, the waters of the Fleet often being turned white with hundreds of birds.

It captures the designs of the tents and caravans of the period, all set down at apparent random, a far cry from what is normally seen on campsites today.

In 1837 the local squire, Reverend Canon Rogers, commissioned James Rendell to design a harbour for the Loe.

Hazelgrove, the valley between the two cliffs, was laid out to provide a picturesque walk from the shore to the western side of the town.

In the heyday of Stevenage, at the start of the 19th century, up to twenty stagecoaches a day passed along this stretch of the Great North Road.