Search Results

A traffic-free view of Dale Road shows the Victorian Gothic style of the Old English Hotel (right) to good effect.

This part of Yelverton, separated from the rest of the village by the main road, goes by the curious name of Leg O'Mutton.

A small village just south of Devizes, Potterne still has some famous and wonderfully ancient buildings. It was once a manor of the Bishops of Salisbury.

Castle Combe was once a centre for cloth weaving but now seems to trade on its picturesque qualities.

Another classic view of the Lake District. The pine-clad promontory of Friar's Crag near Keswick on Derwent Water is backed by the forested slopes of Walla Crag.

A quiet corner of the tiny village of Cark, where the River Eea flows under a low bridge into the sands of Morecambe Bay. Note the upturned cart by the bridge.

This is one of the three roads leading to the Market Place, shown at the far back of this view.

Although one of the busiest in Hay, this street is also one of the shortest. Here we have the mock-Tudor Café Royal, which was also a baker, confectioner and high-class grocer.

There are cynics who say that the remains of the castle are not worth the effort of the steep climb.

Nearby Hampton Court became the home of the Arkwright family, the well-known cotton spinning industrialists. The family were great benefactors to the village, hence the name of these almshouses.

On the side of the house facing us is the date 1595. Behind the trees on the left is the church of St Michael. Note the fine example of thatching on the buildings in the foreground.

It is now the School of Law of the University of East Anglia. It is screened from the modern university buildings by dense trees.

Immortalised in literature and art, and the subject of a thousand picture postcards, Lulworth Cove is at the top of everyone's sightseeing list for Dorset.

This is C M Davidson's sculpture of what are supposed to be a couple of Viking raiders, though they look more like characters from the Games Workshop catalogue. Max Wall would be proud of the legs.

An enormous horse-chestnut tree dominates this photograph of a typical Broadland village: reed cutting is still carried out here.

The record of St Ives' lifeboats is an outstanding one, but has meant great sacrifice.

A tractor, without a cab for the driver, hauls its trailer through the centre of the village. The houses are mostly thatched and built of stone.

Cracoe is a small hamlet of mainly 17th- and 18th-century houses on the minor road between Skipton and Grassington.

This fine, four-arched bridge over the River Aire at Kildwick, between Keighley and Skipton, was built by the canons of Bolton Priory in the early 14th century.

Advertisements of the day commented that 'enterprise has converted the silent and unfrequented vale into the gay resort of fashion, and the favoured retreat of the invalid'.

Piers may have become more elaborate as the 20th century wore on, but the fundamental joy of walking above the waves never failed to appeal to human nature.

This fountain stood at the top of Monument Hill. It was erected in 1896 in memory of Henry Yool, a local benefactor and Vice-Chairman of the newly-formed Surrey County Council from 1889-92.

The River Teme rises in the Kerry Hills of Radnorshire and flows through 75 miles of beautiful countryside before it meets the River Severn just south of Worcester.

Castle Hill is part of 365 acres of common land donated for '...the relief of the poor' in the 12th century. There are 20 miles of public rights of way.