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glance the church's most striking feature appears to be the contrasting steep and shallow pitched roofs; but a closer look identifies the ancient stone column of an Ibric cross (furthest in second row of graves

You can see the iron railings around his grave at the bottom left of our picture. The church is built in Perpendicular style.

At the time of our photograph, ship repairing was still going on at Glasson, and the graving or dry dock was still in use.

In its churchyard is the grave of the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold, with an epitaph which reads 'Awake, thou Lute and Harp - I will awake right early'.

This Celtic-style monument in the Lake District marks the grave of John Ruskin, the artist and philosopher, who helped to bring about the Gothic revival in Victorian architecture and a resurgance of interest

The nearby churchyard contains the graves of the writer's sister and mother, both of whom were named Cassandra.

The nearby churchyard contains the graves of the writer's sister and mother, both of whom were named Cassandra.

In the churchyard lies the grave of the Victorian admiral Sir John Baird, who died in 1908.

Garboldisham is steeped in ancient history: there is a defensive earth work here known as the Devil's Dyke, and a mound traditionally supposed to be the grave of Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni.

The story goes that in the 17th century the land on which this ancient monument stood belonged to a woman named Hetty Pegler, who enjoyed nothing more than to sit on the pagan grave and sing.

The family plot also contains the graves of Randolph and Jennie Churchill, the parents of Sir Winston.

Near the porch of the church there is a stone marking the grave of William Dyke, who is reputed to have started the Battle of Waterloo when he accidentally fired his musket.

Once a royal manor, until Henry II gave it to the Courtenays, the village of Sutton Courtenay has several notable buildings.

In the centre of the crypt is the site of the tomb of St Kentigern (St Mungo) and it was over his grave that the first church was erected.

Behind that stands a ruined chapel, perhaps two centuries older, and below it are eight remarkable shallow graves cut into the headland rock, possibly the tombs of priests or chiefs.

The lovely timber porch was left relatively untouched, however; and a grave-slab from an earlier church has recently been discovered beneath the pews. The rectory burned down in the 1950s.

In the churchyard lies the grave of Maria Rathbone, a little girl who died having lost her way home and whose body was recovered several weeks later as the result of a dream by a stranger.

Nearby there is a large old cemetery and chapel, with many graves of the wealthy. In the picture we can see that the motor age is beginning.

In 1902 work began on the King Edward Dock; an 875ft graving dock was added, and an oil tank farm comprising 27 storage tanks was completed in 1911.

His grave, in St Peter's, Frimley, contains a cross made up of wood from that ship.

It was Queen Victoria who originally argued the need for such a hospital; its objective was to care for the gravely-afflicted casualties of war.The building attracted criticism, and a mix-up with

This stone, which marked the grave of a Viking warrior, was his resting spot for over 1,000 years: it is from the 10th century.

In the 1930s an excavation in the local churchyard unearthed a mass grave in which many of the skulls had a single bullet hole in the forehead – this macabre discovery was dated to the Civil

Kenelm's death made his grave second only to Thomas Becket's as a site of pilgrimage during the Middle Ages, and Winchcombe one of the region's earliest tourist centres.