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The once-notorious Hounslow Heath, the haunt of such famous highwaymen as Dick Turpin and Claude Duvall, has been urbanised and retains little of its old atmosphere.

Lying to the north-east of Iona, the uninhabited island of Staffa is famous for its caves and rock formations. Legend has it that the cave was formed when the giant Finn McCoul made the island.

This is a small village situated in the heart of Thanet, overlooking Minster Marshes. It is well-known for its wonderful old church, which has towers built by the Saxons and Normans.

This church was a gift to the nation under the Million Act of 1818 (see Huddersfield).The church seats 1488, and cost £7687. Inside the tower can be found six bells.

Harleston has retained its character, and has a good number of varied old buildings.

The building of this extraordinary bridge was discussed in Victoria's reign, but it was not opened until 1901.

Many of the shops you see in this picture have changed hands. The shop on the corner with the awning is now McDonalds, and what was United Counties on the opposite corner is now a travel shop.

The children's amusements at Lytham consisted of a few swings, donkey rides and a couple of stalls. There is quite a large crowd gathered down toward the old windmill.

St Mary the Virgin Church stands on the site of an 11th-century church which was once Oxford's most famous building.

Tealby has the reputation of being Lincolnshire's most beautiful village, and as beauty is in the eye of the beholder it may well be, as it truly is picturesque.

This handsome terrace of Victorian houses, built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick overlook the Coronation Park.

The first modern shop façade in the High Street was Fine Fare (left), a small supermarket on the corner of Meadow Road, vying with the more old-fashioned International Stores opposite.

These memorials, found in nearly every town in both England and Wales, tell of the terrible consequences of the two World Wars to the small communities from which the men named on them were drawn.

The barn and outbuilding seen here were demolished in the 1940s as part of the long-overdue restoration programme.

This Celtic-style monument in the Lake District marks the grave of John Ruskin, the artist and philosopher, who helped to bring about the Gothic revival in Victorian architecture and a resurgance of interest

It was a state-of-the-art facility, so whatever the residents of Sale flushed down their loos was chemically purified before it was pumped into the Mersey (up to 750,000 gallons a day); the sludge was

A view of busy Bournemouth pier, attracting strollers and sightseers. The pier has undergone several transformations since it was first built, but retains its popularity.

The beauty of Lulworth Cove has always attracted writers and artists. John Keats spent some of his last days in England here, as did Rupert Brooke.

Packed to the gunwales, the newly-commissioned pleasure steamer 'Teal' leaves Bowness Pier for a trip on Windermere.

Church Stile is the name of the road which goes around the parish church.

It was rural, bucolic scenes like this one at 600-acre Quince Farm that inspired Tennyson to write a poem of 47 words while visiting the area one summer's day in the 1860s.

The White Swan stands on the north side of Bondgate Within. The frontage is mid 19th-century, but the real gem is inside.

In 1908, the view of the town looking back under the bridge was unobstructed.

The local people call this 'Hallelujah Corner' because it is a sharp bend on a narrow and busy main road, near the church of St Mary.