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About half a mile south of the village of Blencow is the house known as Ennim Bank. The name derives from 'innam', meaning a piece of land which was enclosed or taken in.

The Village 1903 Just off the road between Lyminge and Hythe, this jettied timber-frame cottage stands at the approach to the 13th- century church.

The Augustinian Priory of St Mary and St Thomas the Martyr was founded c1200 by Robert fitz Richard (d1213).

Fishing and agriculture played an important part in the economy of the area, but it was the opening up of the Western Highlands to tourism that gave the town the boost it so desperately needed.

This was the site of many an execution and the location of the Porteous Riots in 1736. John Porteous was appointed captain of one of the companies employed to keep the peace.

On the high ground between Dover and Canterbury are a number of one-time mining villages; amidst them is the surprisingly attractive hamlet of Frogham, a collection of pretty cottages.

The estuary of the Camel is one of Cornwall's greatest natural features, fringed with golden sands and surrounded by rolling farmland.

The Tavistock road leads away from Plymouth to the fringes of Dartmoor, and has always been a busy highway.

Nearby on the summit of Blacklow Hill is a monument to Piers Gaveston, the favourite of Edward II.

Weymouth owes its origins as a favourite resort to the patronage of George III and of the rest of fashionable Georgian society, who travelled to the town to take up the new 'cure' of sea bathing.

The church, dedicated in 1124 to St Kyneburga, the third of four daughters of Peada, King of Mercia and founder of the abbey at Peterborough, stands on a slight rise overlooking the village of Castor and

Gone are the market stalls and booths of an earlier era. Here are the vans and accoutrements of a modern thriving market town, utilising the fronts of the Georgian buildings.

Hundreds of spectators line the Thames riverbank on Regatta Day in this late-Victorian photograph. There are also launches for hire and boats to let, as the sign advertises.

The City of London was defended by one of London's oldest and finest buildings, the Tower of London.

A view from the gardens of the imposing front of Cliff College at Calver, in the valley of the River Derwent, near Bakewell.

The Royal Marine Hotel on the left has now succumbed to a towering ten storey block of flats, Metropole Court, one of three architectural disasters along the sea front.

A busy scene at the height of the tourist season, as early visitors clamber aboard the several teams of coach and horses which will show them the wonders of the Lake District.

The front of the premises of the post office and general stores has recently been changed with the opening up of the front of the part behind the telephone box.

Springtime daffodils adorn the bank in front of the battlemented, mostly 15th-century parish church of St Cuthbert at Crayke, a lovely village overlooking the Vale of York.

Richmond, the 'capital' of Swaledale, has been described as one of the most perfect market towns in England.

A considerable amount of development took place here in the 17th and 18th centuries, including the building of naval establishments and factories.

The earliest surviving structure in Worcester, and the largest Norman crypt in England, this is all that remains of St Wulfstan's cathedral of 1084.

The eastern end of Market Place was opened up in the 1830s as the Dewsbury and Gomersal turnpike road.

Said to be the highest town in Surrey, Haslemere is 500ft up in the hills close to the borders of both Sussex and Hampshire.