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The photographer is standing on the west bank looking across to the original 1823 grandstand on the edge of Pitchcroft.

This can be seen clearly in the rockery and floral arrangements shown here.

All that remains of the Saxon building is a carved doorhead in the north transept and some paving in the south transept.

This remote spot in the far south-west corner of Britain has played a major role in world communications and commerce.

The photographer is looking south-west across the pretty market town of Wendover, which lies on the edge of the Chilterns.

Haddenham was one of the chief breeding areas for the Aylesbury duck; its network of streams and ponds was of immense value to this industry, even if the village was famously foul-smellling in a hot summer

Looking west uphill along the High Street, the jettied timber-framed cottages span an alley to the church and its lychgate.

Located at the corner of Stockerston Road and South Backway, West Bank was built in 1866 by Howard Candler, 'a small, energetic mathematician', who always refused to have more than six boys boarding.

Situated west of the Concert Bowl, the rose gardens were laid out in the late 1920s-early 1930s on the site of a former maze.

The town, separated from The Wolds to the east by thin sandy moors, now mostly afforested, became the main market for a wide area in the 16th century, and changed its name from East to Market Rasen.

Heading south-west towards Dorset we reach Crewkerne, another medieval market town that later specialised in sail- making for the Royal Navy until steam supplanted sail.

To the east there is an outlying stone, over which the sun rises at the spring and autumn equinoxes.

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns.

Services in Lyme Bay were reinstated for a short time after a break during the Great War, from Weymouth via West Bay on summer Tuesdays and Thursdays, and went on to Seaton, Sidmouth and Torquay.

The west side offered some of Warrington's finest shops.

Built around its fine market place, it found new life in the 19th century when it joined Northamptonshire's boot and shoe industry with several factories and terraces of hard red Midland brick houses.

St Barnabas Church was built in the 1880s to the designs of Carpenter and Ingelow.

This view looks west towards the Parish church.

Although technically part of West Yorkshire, the market town of Ilkley, standing at the entrance to Wharfedale, is best-known as the gateway to the Dales.

It was thanks to the generosity of cotton manufacturer William Atkinson that Southport got a Free Library and Art Gallery; he paid for both of them.

The ivy-clad ruins of Wothorpe House have been an attraction for tourists for over a hundred years, and it is of no surprise that they were included by the Frith photographer in his collection of Stamford

A couple of old villagers pass the time of day with a youngster in the West Cumbrian village of Gosforth.

The London and South West Railway passed near here in 1860; but Talaton would have remained some distance from a station, had not the Sidmouth branch been built in the 1870s.

There was no traffic on Taylor Hill, Cawthorne when this picture was taken, and the parked car was the only sign of life, apart from the two pedestrians on the right.