Search Results

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church. There are now only a few gravestones left in the re-organised area.

Many farmers grew a crop of corn, particularly oats, in the 1950s. Here, the stooks, groups of sheaves of corn standing on end, are ready for collection.

Poorly compacted, and composed of glacial drift, the cliffs of the north Norfolk coast have been compared to 'dirty tallow', being unstable and liable to erosion.

Most of the stone used in the construction of the Minster was carried up this street. The names of streets and alleys are sometimes strange, such as Whipmawhopmagate and Jubbergate.

The 1893 reredos is by Pearson, and the church has a remarkable painting of The Mourning of Christ after Van Dyck, the original of which hangs in the Berlin gallery.

The Town Hall dates back to 1826; the building's Greek Doric style makes it one of Andover's most distinguished landmarks.

Peeping above the town's rooftops is the tower of St Michael the Archangel, perhaps the finest of Hampshire's Perpendicular parish churches.

This statue of Edward VII and a child was erected by public subscription four years after the King's death.

The 11th-century Saxon tower of St Michael's Church is clearly seen on the right of Cornmarket Street. Until 1771, the North Gate of Oxford spanned the Cornmarket beside this tower.

Note the interesting variety of architectural styles, including gabled houses with tiled roofs, in Bicester's three-cornered Market Square.

Fortunately, there is no traffic as the farmer herds his small herd of cows in the middle of the road at the bottom of Town Hill beside the Peterville Inn.

The splendid Norman tower of the cathedral rises above the roofs of the county town, forming an important part of the city's skyline.

Clydach Gorge, once populated by forges, is also well-known for its stands of beech trees which somehow survived the ravages of the charcoal-burners of the time.

The church of St Mary is Early English in style and some eight hundred years old.

This view shows a virtually-deserted High Street in the undistinguished former colliery town of Normanton, three miles north of Wakefield in South Yorkshire.

Wentworth Woodhouse is one of England's forgotten treasures, four miles north-west of Rotherham.

Bedale was granted its market charter by Henry III, and this view of the North End of the cobbled Market Place shows the 14th-century market cross standing on its six stone steps, with the impressive tower

The so-called Giant's Grave in the churchyard of St Andrew's is actually a pair of tall Norse-influenced Saxon crosses with two hog-backed grave slabs in between.

The wooden jetty on the left would have been used at high tide. This photograph was taken long before the widening of the promenade.

Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.

Part of the fleet of fishing smacks is seen in this unusual view of the harbour. Note the nets hung to dry in the foreground, while a dredger is moored in the centre of the picture.

To the north-west of Ringwood is Somerley House, sometime residence of Lord Normanton. In the valley to the east are the winding waters of the River Avon, to the west the trees of Ringwood Forest.

In the heart of the park stand the ruins of Bradgate House, a Tudor mansion; it was the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey, the tragic nine-day Queen of England who was executed in 1553.

The narrow steeply- sloping Union Street, east of the church of St James, leads the eye northward out of town and towards the stark ridge of Peaked Down; its visible notch gives the down