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Hipswell Hall is a 15th-century fortified manor house built for the Fulthorpe family, whose coat of arms is carved on the bay window to the right.

One mile south-east of Bishop Auckland stands St Andrew's Church. It holds the distinction of being the largest parish church in County Durham.

Emmanuel College was originally the site of a Dominican friary. After the dissolution came a short period of disuse before Sir Walter Mildmay restored parts of the friary for use as a college.

The nave is the oldest part of the minster church, dating from the mid 12th century. The pillars and arches are of different Norman periods.

This simple but well-proportioned bridge spans the River Rothay on the western fringe of Ambleside.

Taken from the corner of Pioneer Avenue and the Rothwell Road (A6), and looking towards the town, the photograph shows the five-storey Co-operative Wholesale Corset Factory on the left

A temporary bridge was erected from a ledge below the Store or Detachment Shelter on the left to Castle Hill, which allowed the passage of building materials and labourers from mainland to

Although its style is medieval, this church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, was built in 1885 by Sir Gilbert Greenall, a Lancashire MP and founder of the famous brewing company that bears his

This triangular Bath stone fountain stands at the junction of Silver Street, Vicarage Street and Church Street; it was erected in 1783.

Soham lies on the road from Burwell to Ely along the edge of Soham Mere, which marked the western edge of the old East Anglian kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons.

This village stands on the south-west edge of the Isle of Ely. In the 17th century the fens around Sutton were drained by farmers, with the help of wind pumps.

The Norman tower and later spire of St Michael's parish church watches over the busy Yorkersgate.

As well as timber, Sharpness handled all manner of grains, linseed, palm kernels, cotton seed, offal grains and ground nuts.

North of Bakewell, an ancient packhorse bridge crosses the water. For centuries, lines of horses would lumber over this bridge weighed down with freight. Often, lead would be the main load.

On the right is the United Free Methodist Church, which opened in 1869, and facing it on the left is Burnley Town Hall.

The church contains many brasses of men and women who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries; the chancel has delicate 15th-century screens, Jacobean altar rails and low arcades dating back

Famous as the birthplace of John Macadam in 1756 and of Robert Burns in 1759, Ayr was founded under a charter granted by William the Lion. This view looks towards the New Brig and Main Street.

This panorama of the river through broad lawns and lofty trees reveals the bridge's graceful character.

This village is just one mile from Boston Spa and even less from the Great North Road.

A notable Victorian inhabitant of Bere Alston was Percival Johnson, who lived at Ward House from 1846-55.

The buildings on the right stand at the junction with Belmont Road, and are now the Belmont Inn.

Across the Bain, Tattershall is altogether less ravaged by 1960s and later rebuilding.

An excellent view of the cliff lift or 'incline tramway', still serving the needs of visitors to the town today.

William Wallis (responsible for the Eagle Building in Eastleigh) had the bright idea of creating an 'Inland Bournemouth' on a triangle of land between Hursley Road, Winchester Road and Brownhill Road.