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William I founded Battle Abbey on Senlac Moor, the site of the Battle of Hastings. The small town of Battle grew up when the people who built and maintained the abbey and its buildings settled there.

The most striking feature of this view of Bakewell church's choir and east end are the mass of brightly-coloured paintings which adorn the walls.

The centre of Bishops Waltham has retained its character over the years, and this picture shows one of its quaint, narrow streets.

Behind Hutchin's pharmacy we can see the tower of Lopping Hall. A blue plaque recalls that this was built in 1883 out of compensation paid for the loss of tree-lopping rights in Epping Forest.

The church of St Leonard is perched on a steep slope just below the walls of the castle, overlooking the village.

The 70ft tower of the church of St Philip and St James appears to be made of pieces from another building. Below is the Gothic-style village school, built in 1827.

The centre of the Pier, now covered, was a popular venue for concert parties, boxing, wrestling, roller skating and tea dances.

Shipley, three miles north-west of Bradford, in the valley of the River Aire, is a busy town on the A65 Skipton Road.

In 1940, Aycliffe was one of the locations chosen for the building of a Royal Ordnance Factory.

Littlebourne is one of the charming villages which are scattered throughout the orchard-rich swathe of countryside which reaches between Canterbury and Wingham.

Little remains today of Shakespeare`s Forest of Arden, only isolated islands of woodland in a sea of agriculture. But the name lives on locally.

The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.

Viewed from just above the landing cove of this tiny fishing community on Veryan Bay, this scene has barely changed in modern times.

The earliest parts of All Hallows date from c1200; the chancel is 13th century, and Victorian additions include the east window and north aisle windows.

The County Lunatic Asylum was first built a little to the west of the town in 1820 to the design of the Plymouth architect John Foulstone.

Panoramic views of the city can be seen from the top of this tower, which was built in the 12th century to replace a previous wooden castle.

A horse-drawn carriage takes a journey into the extensive woodlands of Cranham, Brockworth and Buckholt. A century later this is still one of the most beautiful stretches of countryside in England.

Pronounced 'white'em', this is one of Oxfordshire's prettiest villages.

The elegant spire and pinnacles of the parish church of St John feature in many views of this town, situated at the foot of Skiddaw in the northern Lake District.

These elegant Scots pines on the shores of Buttermere are among the most photographed of any in the Lake District, but this must be one of the earliest pictures of them.

On the right is the imposing facade of the old National Provincial Bank.

This view from the church tower looks towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church where the

The spacious forecourt of the Crown Inn in the neighbouring village of Stanstead St Margaret's, on the opposite bank of the River Lea.

Adderbury, south of Banbury, evolved as a result of the wool trade. Lord Montagu, William of Orange's minister, lived here at one time.