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A local preacher, John of Feckenham, became a monk at nearby Evesham. After the Dissolution, he spent some years in the Tower of London before becoming Abbot of Westminster under Queen Mary.

The stone reads: 'Here stood the oak tree in which an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrrell at a stag glanced and struck King William the Second surnamed Rufus on the breast of which he instantly died

Archaeologists say that during the Dark Ages the village centre was north of the church, around what is now the car park opposite the Civic Hall.

A mile or so south of Quorn, the camera looks north towards the weir, with Hawcliff Hill and Buddon Wood to the left.

The gap to the right between terraces is the end of the Steyne Gardens, laid out after 1807, and originally intended as the centre of the resort, but most development in fact went westward.

This romantic-looking castle, set in a bend of the River Medway, was founded in early Norman times, and rebuilt in the late 13th century by Sir Stephen de Penchester, the Warden of the Cinque Ports.

This village comprises little more than this cluster of charming cottages just off Watling Street, but it has associations with two noted authors.

These were the heady days of vision, ambition and plain hard work that transformed a small hamlet int the great Victorian town of Barrow-in-Furness, which was once described as the Chicago of Britain.

Henry VIII's Pendennis Castle stands proud on the headland which gives shelter to the dock area of one of the great natural harbours of the world.

Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

Further east along The Embankment, Newnham Bridge crosses the north branch of the River Ouse at the south end of Tennyson Road. We are looking east from the north bank.

East of the church and the Moot Hall, a jettied timber-framed building of about 1500, standing in its green, is the main north-south village road, the High Street.

The large parish church is mostly 13th- century, but it was heavily restored by the great architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, a native of Buckinghamshire, between 1849 and 1869.

In front of the church is the County Museum; nearer the camera, behind the 'No Waiting' sign, is one of Aylesbury's best town houses, with arched sash windows to the ground floor.

This building was named after Sir James Allanson Picton, antiquary and architect, knighted in 1881, the first chairman of the Liverpool Libraries Committee.

Stephen of Tisbury, archdeacon of Wiltshire, founded a Trinitarian friary here in 1245 to serve as a hostel for poor travellers.

We are looking down from the keep of Clitheroe Castle to the town below.

The castle underwent large-scale remodelling and extension over a 50-year period during the 13th century, much of the work being commissioned by John de Barri.

This is the site of Bury Fair, the great social and trading focus of Bury in the late 17th to early 19th centuries.

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.

The cluster of half-timbered houses dated from the late 15th century. Known as The Friars, they marked the position of the Dominican priory's gatehouse.

Winchcombe's long central street becomes in turn Hailes Street, High Street, Abbey Terrace, Gloucester Street and Cheltenham Road, showing off a great variety of magnificent architecture along the way.

The overhanging first-floor jetties of the whitewashed houses add to the medieval charm of the village, which is a favourite of the many visitors to the Lake District.