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This photograph shows the wooded valley at Capel Curig. In the Victorian era it was very popular with anglers, and there were coaches carrying visitors from Betws-y-Coed to Bangor and Llanberis.

The village of Palnackie is set in a region of wooded hills and streams.

Bowness Bay opens out into the north basin of the lake; Hen Holme island is backed by wooded Claiffe Heights and the mountains around Langdale.

The view shows an abundance of public houses and hotels. At far right three stand side by side - the Theatre Royal, then Clarence and (out of picture) the Cambrian.

The view shows an abundance of public houses and hotels. At far right three stand side by side - the Theatre Royal, then Clarence and (out of picture) the Cambrian.

From the work-yard of George Dixon, builder and mason, we look down on a surviving Penrith institution, Brunswick Road Junior School.

This nostalgic and peaceful late-summer view shows corn stooks above the little town by the lake whose Welsh name, Llyn Tegid, means 'beautiful lake'.

Mr Burden's shop and Post Office is the centre of village life. Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat - his cycle is parked under the signpost.

Lyndhurst is the 'capital' of the New Forest, a bustling tourist base at the heart of this wooded region.

This pleasant market town lies just inland from the chalets and caravans of the 'honky-tonk' north coast between Rhyl and Colwyn Bay.

Situated on the Bargate beds of the Greensand, and amid pine-woods, Witley became popular with artists and writers in the closing years of Victoria's reign; George Eliot stayed here while writing Daniel

It nestles under the wooded slopes of the Beacon.

The miniature railway at Cofton Wood was nearly as popular as the tea room, though one cannot help wondering if the adults in this picture are not just the teeniest bit embarrassed.

Sunnyhurst Wood is a Nature Reserve; Sunnyhurst Brook runs through it to join the River Darwen that gave the town its name.

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet

Nearing the coast, in a steep wooded combe 400 feet above the sea, Culbone's church is well-known to walkers along the Somerset and North Devon Coast Path , but is inaccessible by public road

The word 'fold' means an enclosure of land for animals, and 'Chadynge`s fold' may well date back to the Saxon period.

The forests had deposits of iron ore, and supplies of wood fuel to smelt it; the iron-making families brought much wealth to the parish.The church of St Margaret, with a shingled broach spire,

At intervals on Severn Side, both north and south, steps leading from the sandstone quays were constructed.

In this typically well-wooded river scene, we can see lavish use of stone in walls and bridge that could stand for centuries.

Unlike many of its rivals, the Staffordshire & Worcestershire never sold out to the railway companies, some of whom made a policy of buying up canals, then running them down so that they could gradually

In this view the family businesses of Hargrave's the butcher's (right) and Trott's the greengrocer's next door are still in business, though not for much longer.

Lucy Maria Wood Boston, born in December 1892, bought the building in 1939 and spent two years restoring it.

Founded in the 12th century, the hospital of St John Baptist offered temporary relief to poor wayfarers and relief to the sick and poor of the city.