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The Duke of Bridgewater has been called 'the parent and father' of our canal system.

The tiny church of St Olaf at Wasdale Head is said to be among the smallest in England.

This is one of the classic mountain views in the Lake District, with the glaciated knife-edge of Striding Edge leading off eastwards towards High Spying How.

Positioned cosily under the downs, and with its cluster of thatched and slate-roofed cottages around it, the Perpendicular tower of St Lawrence's Church rises above the surrounding gravestones.

In 1497 John Cabot, under the patronage of Richard Amerycke, sailed from Bristol in the ship 'Matthew'.

The crypt of St German's used to house the bishop's prison, where those found guilty by the ecclesiastical court were imprisoned. The bishop's prison was last used in 1780.

Otford is on the main Sevenoaks to Dartford road, alongside the River?Darent; it has become something of a commuter village today.

One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting. There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.

In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

Taken almost from the bottom of High Street, many of these buildings are unchanged a century later, even if their uses have. Brook's Cafe Restaurant is now The Bradford & Bingley Building Society.

This, the northern gate, stands on the site of the Roman Porta Principalis, the gateway of Eboracum. The barbican was demolished in 1835.

Moving north-east of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton- Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury

Baron Serlo de Burg built the first castle at Knaresborough, and during the reign of King John the fortress was also a royal arsenal for the manufacture of crossbow quarrels.

This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families. At this time the Headcorn to Tenterden railway line was opened.

The scale of buildings with nothing over three to four storeys has now been rudely interrupted by the 1970s seven-storey extension to the Town Hall behind the 1930s brick building (centre).

The old gentlemen on the right is a typical resident of the hospital, more so than the smart gentleman on the left, strolling with a lady who is keeping up with the latest fashion of a bustled skirt.

This area was developed after 1885 on land owned by the Freehold Land Society. In the distance is the newly-opened Felix Hotel of 1903.

Colchester is often described as Britain's oldest recorded town - this was a town of vital importance to the Romans.

Set on the high ground about 115ft above sea level, inland from the main village, St Nicholas's Church was erected and enlarged from the 13th century by the medieval wool traders of the area.

The church of St John the Baptist was built c1450, and so was the timber- framed Guild House just visible beyond the church in this view.

This is a mid 18th-century symmetrical brick building of quality, two and a half storeys high and five bays wide.

Written records of St Mary's Church date back to 1210. The High Street is remarkably quiet, but it is captured at a time of largely horse-drawn transport.

With only a few of the original cottages remaining on the right-hand side of this picture, we can see that this village is undergoing a population explosion, with many families moving from