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Before the opening of the M3, it used to run right through to the Portsmouth Road. At this time the road was just being developed.

For many years, salmon were an important catch in the river. They still run today, but in nothing like the quantities they once did.

With an old castle, and the River Exe running through the town, it presents plenty of opportunities for recreation.

The Leys was founded by Methodists as a boys' school run on Christian principles.

Only the narrow Eden Valley offers an opening, running south-east to Stainmoor and lowland England.

This more expansive view of the valley conveys a feeling of peace and beauty.

Pownall Bridge over the River Bollin carries the public footpath that runs from Wilmslow along the river bank to Styal.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

The New Pier (it dated from 1891) runs along the skyline of this view of the seafront, with its former Boundary Archway (separating Burton's town from Hastings) on the right.

The White Hart here has a long history.

This 19th-century inn has always catered for the anglers who frequent the fast-running waters of the Rover Mawddach in the Coed y Brenin forest near Dolgellay to catch their salmon and trout.

There was a medieval planned town running between the two: this early 13th-century gate is its northern entrance.

Longfords Lake was created in 1806 as a reservoir to feed the large nearby cloth mill run by the Playne family. Originally 15 acres in extent, it is now much silted up.

The tower of the corn windmill dominates the picture despite having lost its sails and cap.

Clovelly's remarkable state of preservation is due to the philanthropic nature of the Hamlyn family, who acquired the manor in 1740.

Petham is a small village set in a valley just off the Roman Stane Street that runs from Canterbury to Lympne. There are remains of entrenchments here, constructed during the Roman invasion.

Beyond Dennis Head, on the opposite shore, is the mouth of the Helford River, which runs inland for five miles to Gweek.

Built between 1883 and 1890, the bridge was constructed to carry the North British Railway's main line between Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

His epitaph in the parish church runs: 'Here lie I at the chancel door; Here lie I because I'm poor; The farther in the more you'll pay; Here lie I as warm as they'.

This is part of Binton Bridges, linked bridges which span the Avon between Welford and Binton by way of mid- stream islands.

There has probably been a ferry of one sort or another plying its trade across the mouth of the Dart for millennia, but the first mention of one is in the Court Rolls of 1365, when it was run by one

Until the late 1920s there was only a handful of regular bus services around Nuneaton.

Sussex Street, running between Sidney and Hobson Streets, was redeveloped in the 1930s, and finished off with these elegant colonnades.

At the centre of this photograph lies the Norman tower of Oxford Castle. Within its precincts lie a Saxon mound and a Norman crypt.