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Near Cross Foxes, a tract of land on the slopes of Cadair Idris known as the Tir Stent carries an unusually nutritious vegetation, which supports more sheep per acre than the poor acid soils elsewhere

Parts of the estate, some 571 acres, were being offered as building plots by 1920, and were sold to developers by 1935.

Cars and buses are no longer allowed to park among the weird and wonderful gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, as they were when this photograph was taken.

Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world – it covers 13 acres. It was founded by William the Conqueror, and almost every sovereign since has altered it or added to it.

In 1830 a retired builder from Everton, James Atherton, bought 170 acres of sandhills on the northern tip of the Wirral, with the aim of creating a new seaside resort to rival Brighton.

Behind the pub and the house rears the wooded slopes of Anstiebury Camp, one of Surrey's finest Iron Age hillforts, dating from the second century BC; its ramparts enclose over 11 acres.

Described in 1890 as a 'handsome modern thoroughfare', Corporation Street was the result of a massive redevelopment of 93 acres of slums.

The road leads all the way round the shore here, and today there is a car park behind the third building.

The Botanic Gardens occupy 43 acres off Great Western Road, and many orchids, tropical plants and trees are grown in its conservatories.

With its 13-acre grounds and Avon river frontage, the castle became a popular weekend retreat for Turner Turner's many friends. There was even a chapel and a private railway halt.

In 1895 it comprised over 7,000 acres of land and 950 of tidal water and foreshore. The population was 854.

This view of Cockington is almost exactly the same today, thanks to the Mallocks of nearby Cockington Court: this is a 17th-century mansion that stands in 450 acres of parkland, and is now owned, along

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury has wide views over Blackmoor Vale and thousands of acres of rolling Dorset countryside. Some locals still use its old name of Shaston.

It covers an area of 13 acres.

The camp covered about 40 acres, and was occupied for 20 years. Supplies came by sea to Poole Harbour and then by road from Hamworthy to Wimborne.

All offer acres of beautiful woodland.

Fawley is home to the Esso oil refinery, which lies to the south of the parish; it started operating in 1951, and covers 3,000 acres.

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

The 65-acre Meare (the correct spelling at fantasy Thorpeness) was dug out of marshland to provide a boating lake for children.

A Frenchman, M Andre, a gardener, and Liverpool's Mr Lewis Hornblower, architect, won that competition, and set about transforming the 233 acres bought from the Earl of Sefton.

It is situated in the parish of Nether Wyresdale, one of the most extensive in the Rural District, an area of 4,244 acres of fertile agricultural land.

Bretby Hall, or Bretby Park, which stands in its own 600-acre park near Burton on Trent, is a mock-Gothic, castellated pile built in 1813 by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville; it is now used as a hospital.

In 1993 the National Trust purchased the 1500-acre site, which was opened to the public in 1995.

The Romford Golf Club, when it was founded, leased 90 acres of land from the Gidea Hall Estate.