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It was at Catterick in AD 625 that Paulinus, first Bishop of York, baptised converts to Christianity, following the marriage of King Edwin of Northumbria to Ethelburga of Kent.

A great deal of building took place during the years that followed; the population increased three-fold during Queen Victoria's reign.

The elegant Abbey Crescent was built in 1858 in anticipation of the opening of the nearby railway station the following year.

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.

After taking a tram or trolley-bus ride to Wilford Bridge, a walk to Clifton would perhaps be followed by tea at a cottage on the Green.

Following the castle's capture in the Civil War, the original stone gatehouse was destroyed. This timber gatehouse therefore dates from the late 1600s.

Work began in 1864, but in 1868, while still under construction, it was badly damaged by a storm; it was not until the following year that Tynwald voted funds for repairs and completion.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Following the Wye valley for several miles, it then climbs steeply towards Taddington before plunging dramatically downhill to rejoin the river again. The road has not been improved very much today.

It was in a hospital here that Lawrence of Arabia died following his motorcycle crash in 1935.

Vivary Park was purchased in 1894 and a bandstand and the gates were added the following year. The park has been recently renovated with the help of a National Lottery grant.

Formerly known as the Council House, it has recently been renamed the Town Hall, following the construction of a new red-brick Council House next to it.

It follows the road to Lodge Farm. The bypass, which opened in 1981, necessitated the realignment of this road from the new roundabout.

Fashion decreed that much of Georgian society should follow the monarch's example, creating a minor bathing resort on the edge of what had been a lonely estuary.