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The church of St Mary the Virgin at Upper Swainswick dates from Norman times.

He finally bought a three-acre plot from the Sergison family just north of Muster Green; one of the many restrictive clauses was that any future house built on any part of the site must cost in excess

The library is housed on the first floor of the new centre, leaving the ground floor for retailers.

The bottom of the church steeple is higher than the roof of the parsonage, just visible in the trees.

As the Alice Holt Forest receded, this area was planted with hop-bines; Wrecclesham helped to supply the breweries and ale-houses of Farnham with their raw materials, while its inhabitants maintained a

Seven miles from the Humber and to the west of Hull, Cottingham was another desirable place to live for prosperous merchants; in the 18th century there were five magnificent houses here, which were all

The church was built between 1623 and 1625 of materials from the original 13th- century structure.

Uttoxeter cattle market was the biggest market south of Nantwich. Before the foot and mouth outbreak of 2001, it hosted fat and store cattle sales on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The church sits in a well-treed landscape, close to the basically late 16th-century Hall of the Hartopp family, who financed the building of the church in 1851.

The supporting bearers to the timber frame of the Tudor building are visible in detail.

St Peter's is Early English in style and is appropriately in Church Road, Earley, now part of Reading.

Native to this country, beeches were planted for shelter, ornament and, of course, their timber.

By the mid 1800s Church Stretton had become a holiday resort for people keen on country walking, and many hotels were established to serve this market.

Broad Street was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most memorable streets in England'.

Here we have a view of the church steeple from the opposite end of the village. The church has a Tudor pulpit. The house on the right was once an inn called the Perserverance.

In late morning sunshine, the boys of the village head for the newsagents, possibly to collect their wages for the daily delivery run.

A large number of the buildings in this photograph are now Grade II listed, but the dishevelled look of the market stalls did little to foster civic pride in antiquity.

A newer Shanklin grew up along the seashore to cater for the demands of both visitors and those who came to settle.

A very regular row of houses lines this quiet street. I wonder if all the residents were enjoying their first taste of commercial television?

Lover's Leap in Ashwood Dale, near Buxton, is one of several in the Peak which recall a long-forgotten romantic tragedy.

The construction of the Midland line through the dales of the Wye excited the wrath of the early conservationist John Ruskin, and the Monsal Dale viaduct was thought to have particularly offended him.

Running between the church and Nutfield Road, this narrow cobbled alley, with red tile-hung Tudor buildings approached by red brick steps, was once the High Street of the village.

The premises of Mellersh & Son, grocers, can be seen over on the left of this picture. Note the rather rough surface of the road at Church Crookham.

The prominent structure on the top of Staddon Heights (just right of centre) is not, as local myth says, a wind- break for the golf course on the top of the Heights; it was actually constructed as a