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French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit. The churchyard contains the graves of several prisoners.

This Pembrokeshire store sports a veritable Aladdin's cave of goods from whitewash to ice cream, and from newspapers to cake and cigarettes.

Sad to say, many of the timber-framed buildings in St Andrew's Street were demolished in the 1960s.

The intricately-decorated Market Cross is considered to be one of the finest of its kind in the country.

This corner of Eastleigh has changed significantly: the new buildings interposed with the older ones on the left-hand side of the street offer a rich mix of architectural styles.

A police officer keeps a close eye on traffic at the foot of Preston Street, with the International Stores displaying its selection of groceries in its corner window, and the printers and stationer's shop

The top of the tower of this 13th-century church is five hundred feet above sea level, and was used as a lookout point in both world wars. An earlier medieval tower was destroyed in a storm in 1637.

Astride the A2, the old market town of Sittingbourne was an important staging point on the medieval pilgrims' route to Canterbury and, later on, in the coaching era.

The parish church is of flint, with a large west tower.

The parish church of St Mary is here seen under scaffolding. The tower is 15th-century, but most of the remainder of the building was rebuilt in the 1850s.

Traditional Norfolk cottages with thatched roofs and flint walls are built on the edge of a large village green: this kind of green-edge or common-edge settlement is characteristic of Norfolk.

A medieval 15th-century cross, two 17th-century houses with contrasting architectural styles and the church of St Andrew have all been captured in this delightful photograph.

Here we can see a portion of the gardens of Bank House in the days before they became accessible to the public. Note the thatched summerhouse.

Of the two pubs shown here, The New Red Lion (centre) survives. The Bell Inn (left) is now a private house. The retaining wall on the right was part of Chalford Station yard.

The western suburbs of Bridgwater grew in the late 19th century to incorporate the village of Wembdon, whose church was at the far east end of the village. In 1906 it looks remarkably rural.

Theories abound on the origin of the name, including a derivation from the knickerbockers worn by the navvies who built the railway.

A tiny coastal hamlet in the parish of Symondsbury, Eype was provided with its own 350-seat chapel of ease, dedicated to St Peter, in 1865 (right-hand skyline).

The cries of traders echo through the expansive square, planned by Inigo Jones.The scene has been described by a contemporary guidebook: ‘All night long the rumble of heavy wagons seldom ceases, and

Mansion House, the lavish building on the left, has been the official residence of the Lord Mayor for two centuries. It was built by George Dance on the site of the old stocks market.

Stanmore, a once picturesque village, has now lost much of its character, apart from one or two buildings; these include a superb but well-disguised hall house of around 1500 in Church Road.

The town clusters around the stronghold, clinging to the steep slopes in a series of steeply inclined roads. Harlech Castle is the very image of a mediaeval stronghold.

This is the chief Mersey bathing-place, which at once gains and loses by its proximity to the great commercial city of Liverpool.

Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.

These gardens are at the rear of Ayscoughfee Hall, which is now in the process of being restored. The building is partly used as the Spalding Tourist Office.