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He had become converted to the idea of 'educating' nature, using and modifying the natural contours to produce pleasing compositions. This was to lead him to create one of England's great gardens.

The cenotaph-like War Memorial occupies the left foreground of this view of Heanor's park, while on the right, a group of three 60s youths eye the cameraman suspiciously.

A pretty village with various Georgian houses, Slinfold lies in the countryside to the west of Horsham.

Another view of the mountain taken from across the valley with a very small man-made reservoir in the immediate foreground.

The pretty village of Bainbridge, centred on its extensive green, stands on the banks of the River Ure (foreground).

The church is that of St Andrew, which lies on the western edge of a steep-sided valley, two miles north of Presteigne.

The pretty estate village of Hovingham, in the Vale of Pickering, is famous for its lime trees which shade the entrance to Hovingham Hall, built about 1760 by Thomas Worsley, Surveyor General to William

North Stoneham Church was rebuilt at the end of the 16th century in the Gothic style.

Rather like King's Norton, Moseley appears in Domesday Book as a berewick of the Royal Manor of Bromsgrove.

Tucked away in the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of 'Middlemarch' here in 1871

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.

In July 1740 a number of the inhabitants of Yarm were brought to the Guisborough Sessions, accused of riotous assembly.

This photograph of The Hard, overlooking Portsmouth Harbour, shows at least three pubs - including The Victoria and Albert in the centre of the picture.

A timeless scene in one of the many creeks of the long estuary that runs between Salcombe and Kingsbridge.

The independent parish of Dinnington almost cuts the parish of Laughton-en-le-Morthen in two.

An Edwardian lady relaxes in a meadow on Colthouse Heights, on the eastern shores of Esthwaite Water, looking across to the knoll of Roger Ground, near Hawkshead.

This photograph of The Hard, overlooking Portsmouth Harbour, shows at least three pubs - including The Victoria and Albert in the centre of the picture.

At the foot of Langho Fells and in sight of Pendle Hill stands the Saxon village of Old Langho; its church, St Leonard's, was built with stone that came from Whalley Abbey in about 1530.

King Edward I transferred the manor of Letchworth to the Knights Templar. When the order was dissolved in 1312, it passed to the Knights Hospitallers and eventually to the Lytton family of Knebworth.

Acorns were the main source of food for pigs in Norman England, and pigs were an important source of food for many Lancashire villages.

Nestling in the shelter of Lythe Bank, the ancient village holds the homes of many of the men who worked in the alum industry and on local estates.

In translation, Tal-y-Llyn means 'the end of the lake': that aptly describes the location of the village, with its little church and inns in the shadow of Cadair Idris.

Stirling was to change hands a number of times during the Wars of Independence.

The ancient, ivy-covered Black Swan Hotel dominates this view of The Square at Helmsley, the attractive castle-crowned capital of the North York Moors National Park.