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Richard I was responsible for establishing a settlement on Portsea Island, and it was he who built the first dock on Portsmouth in the late 12th century.

The building in the centre of the picture was the former butter and fish market.

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

This view gives a clear example of the impact commercial motor traffic had on the Great North Road, prior to the building of the M1 motorway.

In 1882, the wealthy lord of the manor and the father of the incumbent Rector of Ashtead, Sir Thomas Lucas, donated a small iron church for the expanding population in this part of the parish.

The manor of Barden lay to the south-west of Tonbridge. Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

Staines may have got its name from the stone- paved remains of a branch of the Roman road of Akeman Street, that once ran to the important Roman station of Ad Pontes nearby, or perhaps

The spire of St Nicholas's dominates the Market Place. In 1857 this Victorian church replaced an earlier church of St Nicholas, which dated from the 12th century - it had a tower.

It was already happening in the 1980s, when Royal Mail cleared the wharves on the south side of the river at Kingston and developed the largest mechanised letter office in the United Kingdom.

Prestbury was the mother church of Macclesfield.

Twickenham Museum Efforts to establish a museum for Twickenham stemmed from the creation of the Museum of Richmond.

The smooth slopes of Skiddaw dominate the northern Lakeland town of Keswick in this view from Castle Head.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe of the Lake

This offers a closer view of the southern end of the High Street.

On a steep hillside commanding views of the Weald, north-west of Ashford, this charming village was near the seat of the Dering family at the now-vanished Surrenden Dering a mile away.

Thorney was part of the Duke of Bedford's estate, and played a focal part in the construction of the Bedford Levels in the 17th century.

The village of Cuddesdon had been the official home of the Bishops of Oxford for over 400 years, earning it the title of Oxfordshire's 'Holy Village'.

The steep slopes of The Bank provide a grandstand view of Baildon, a typical Pennine town standing on the edge of Baildon Moor, famous for its enigmatic prehistoric 'cup and ring'-marked stones.

In that year the cutlers of Sheffield presented a successful bill to Parliament.

Bungay was one of the seats of the powerful Bigod family, who built the castle here in 1170, making use of a loop in the River Waveney to provide a natural defence.

This autumn picture of Harnham Gate and the southern corner of the Close reflects then, as now, a secluded and quiet area of the Close.

Here we see the ruined keep of Farnham Castle, romantically clothed with vegetation. Most English monarchs from Edward I to Queen Victoria have been entertained here.

St Catharine's was founded by Robert Woodlarke in 1473, then the third provost of King's.

Bursledon village consists of two distinct halves - the new and the old.