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When the Domesday survey was carried out in 1086, Budworth was listed as one of the largest parishes in all England.

St Mary's position in the centre of the town, and the dominating height of its splendid 16th-century tower at 90 feet, make it one of the most prominent buildings in Brecon.

The interior view of St John's Church shows the east window depicting Christ holding the orb, flanked by St Peter and St Mary. It is a memorial to the Rev George Garbett, vicar of St James'.

In this view, which looks towards Ramsden Square, the sign by the blind (left) proclaims a drug store, while one of the posters on the wall beyond is for Wheatleys Hop Bitters.

Next to the stream is the old Methodist chapel of 1860, now a house, but with gravestones still in the back garden. St Mary's church can be glimpsed in the middle distance.

This wide High Street has altered little over the years, although the proprietors of many of the shops have changed.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

St Mary's Square is here no wider than a footpath, with the churchyard on the left. On the right is the 1840s brick Tudor-style old school, extended in replica in 1907.

Masham received its market charter in 1250 and became known for its sheep fairs; you can see the pens in the background.

We are looking up Church Street towards St Mary's Parish Church and the Priory. The printing offices of the Lancaster Guardian was the second building on the right.

Beyond the mill, which dates from Norman times, is the square tower of St Mary's. This parish church has some fine stained glass in 28 windows paid for by John Tame, a rich wool merchant.

In Nether Stowey, you are in Samuel Taylor Coleridge country: he rented a cottage in Lime Street from 1796; whilst here, he wrote 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan', the latter famously interrupted

In the 12th century Friern Barnet belonged to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, and the church, notwithstanding extensive mid 19th-century additions, dates from around that time.

Although the church of St Mary's has many interesting points, clearly the main object of interest in this picture is the building next door, Buckden Palace.

The church of St Mary was built in 1863; it replaced a nearby Norman building constructed on the site of a sumptuous sixty-room Roman villa, which was excavated in the late 18th century.

The mill stands on the northern edge of town, with St Mary's graveyard visible beyond; it dates from Norman times, and by the Middle Ages was used for fulling cloth.

Beyond is the late 15th-century church of St Mary; its superb west tower owes its scale and magnificence to the town's medieval wool prosperity, and is something of a copy of Wells Cathedral's sublime

Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.

Built in 1856, the church has the crossed keys of St Peter below the east window. Behind the church are the hospital of 1826 and the birthplace of the Victorian novelist Ouida (1839-1907).

St Mary's is another restored Norman church. Dating from around 1200, additions were made in the 1400s; a transept was demolished at that time. Restorations were made by John Colson in 1862.

Eyensbury is now in Cambridgeshire but was formerly in Huntingdonshire. Eynesbury very much plays second fiddle to the town of St Neots, from which it is separated only by the Hen Brook.

On the west side of the green area called the Croft, backing on to the river, are the workhouse and St Gregory's off to the left.

A nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high. The village church of St Mary's is an Early English building with an ancient chest and coffin.

This photograph shows the old village centre, looking from the Roman Catholic church of St Mary of the Angels. Carnforth Co-operative Society looked after the villagers' grocery needs.