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This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side-by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

Here we see the brick-built army buildings of this military settlement in Surrey's army quarter on the high heathlands of the north west of the county.

We are looking north-west from the end of the Strand towards the terraces of Summerleaze Crescent on the skyline. Granville Terrace is just to the right of the bridge across the River Neet.

From the height of Castle Hill, close to the old railway line on the east side of the valley, Bakewell looks exactly what it is: a pretty and compact market town.

The red sandstone cliffs of East Devon break into the green and pastoral valley of the River Sid; Sidmouth lines the slopes of the gap.

This view gives an idea of the regular and spacious layout of the town.

This could be any town, anywhere, the epitome of the Borough Architects' brave new world of the early 1960s.

None of its brick buildings is outstanding yet the total effect is one of pleasing harmony. Many of the shops have retained their Victorian detailing.

The granite stone of Bodmin Moor supports a natural oddity, the impressive outcrop known as the Cheesewring. The summit of the hill encloses a stone fort probably associated with the Bronze Age.

The salt industry both here and at Nantwich suffered as a result of the shelving of a scheme to open the rivers of these towns to navigation.

The parish church of St James, Finchampstead was first recorded in the early 12th century. One of its later additions was the brick tower in 1720.

On the right of the photograph is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

Mayfield stands on the summit of a hill, and has one of the most picturesque long streets in the county.

Greyfriars Green is dominated by the spire of Christchurch (c1350), all that remains of a monastery established in 1234 and demolished in 1539.

This is the classic view of the Duke of Devonshire's mainly 17th-century Derbyshire home of Chatsworth, seen from James Paine's entrance bridge over the River Derwent.

The Bishop of Winchester granted a weekly market here in the 13th century, and looking at this photograph of one of the village streets, little has changed since the mid 1950s.

This view was taken looking north along the Broadway from the crossroads, showing the extent of the redevelopment carried out by the Onyx Property Investment Company over the two preceding decades and

The village of Aiskew is now almost merged with Bedale. Looking along Storey Terrace, we see in the distance the tower of Bedale's church of St Gregory.

On opposite corners of Water Lane are the only two buildings to survive from the Maison Dieu, one of neighbouring Faversham's three medieval religious foundations.

His novel idea was to treat each side of the Square as a single architectural composition, so that the terraces of houses looked like single grand palace fronts with central pediments on three sides of

A set of stone steps leading nowhere might seem a rather odd thing to have on the roadside.

This is a view of the same street looking down the hill. Notice how in this and the other pictures of Whitchurch, the street lights are suspended above the centre of the street.

The bank on the corner has become the Midland Bank, while across The Square the familiar names of Boots the Chemists and Foyle's Library appear on shop signs.

St Bartholomew's was founded by Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester in 1078 for the city's lepers and sick poor. It is perhaps the oldest hospital in the country.