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Featured here is the adjoining Chapter House built in the late 13th century; it follows the classic Early English style for monastic chapter houses and vestibules by being rectangular in shape.

The defensive wall runs for three miles, and had to be repaired following the tidal surge in 1953.

The structure was severely damaged during the Second World War, though it had been sympathetically restored by the time this photograph was taken during the following decade.

It is an unforgettable experience to follow Worcestershire's rivers on foot or on a slow-moving boat.

Shropshire towns have long had a reputation for their displays of hanging baskets and window boxes, a fashion that the rest of the country seems only recently to have followed.

Thatched cottages are comparatively rare in this part of Derbyshire; to see Baslow's examples, you have to follow the signposted path for Chatsworth, which starts at the car park.

Weston Park was purchased in 1873 for £18,000; Firth Park was given by Mark Firth in 1875; Endcliffe Woods was bought in 1885, followed by Meersbrook Park in 1886 and Hillsborough Park in 1890.

This is located just 50m from the cathedral; it fronts onto the Bailey, a mediaeval street that follows the spine of the peninsula from the historic Market Place to Prebends Bridge.

In 1549, John Kett led his rebel peasant army from its camp on Mousehold Heath over this fine 14th-century bridge, only for his followers to be cut to pieces in the city.

The hall opened the following year with 12 students—initially as Somerville Hall, then from 1886 as Somerville College.

When John Fell was Dean of Christ Church, one of his students based a famous Latin epigram on him following a reprimand.

Forming a boundary with the original Augustinian priory site established by Henry I, the High Street follows the route of the Watling Street ancient trackway.

Artists such as Millais and Leighton sought inspiration in local scenes, and a host of Victorian and Edwardian amateurs followed their example.

During the great building boom that followed Cheltenham's development from the 19th century onwards, much of the earlier medieval settlement was overwhelmed.

Dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, Westoning's parish church closely follows other church architecture in Bedfordshire villages, being in the Early English style with battlements and buttresses and a tower

Parnell was a great Irish patriot, a Protestant landowner from Wicklow and MP at Westminster, whose career was ruined by scandal following the disclosure of his long-term affair with a married woman, Kitty

On hearing her sing in the church, one Matthew Trewhella fell in love with her, followed her to the sea and was never heard of again.

The Zonita Cinema has followed 'Adventures of Quentin Durward' into obscurity, but the pub across the road still provides a service for thirsty residents and travellers.

A small child perches precariously on the lock gate balance beam: one wriggle and disaster could follow. To the left, a huge ladder is in place, seemingly to pick the fruit hanging from the branches.

It suffered a disastrous fire in December 1928 but was skilfully rebuilt the following year.

Following in the Norfolk tradition of fine churches, St Peter's is a noble if diminutive edifice, with a fine old traceried screen and Norman font.

It was to Sheerness dockyard that Nelson's body was brought, preserved in a barrel of spirit, following his death at Trafalgar.

The following year the pier was commissioned; it was soon extended so that vessels could use it at low water.

He died in France in 1934, but a year later his body was brought back to England and laid to rest here following a torchlight funeral oration.