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Its peal of eight bells is well-known to campanologists. Money was left for the building of the stone church and tower in the will of Jane Salisbury, tragically killed on the railway in 1922.

West Bradford gets its name from being west of the broad, shallow ford of the River Ribble.

This chapel takes its name from Dr David Lewis, the son of a vicar of Abergavenny, who became the first principal of Jesus College, Oxford. His tomb is on the left.

This view of All Saints' Church looks from Park Road.

It was built using subscriptions from workers in all departments of the LNWR Company 'as a token of their appreciation of the generosity of their Board of Directors (who) presented

Although built in a typical Eliizabethan style, this building dates to the time of the accession of Queen Victoria - it was completed in 1838.

The Floating Harbour was created in the early years of the 19th century to give Bristol a tide-free dock.

Stodman Street leads out of the south-west corner of the Market Place. Its most famous building is the Governor's House, a 16th-century timber-framed house with three storeys of coved jetties.

At the opposite end of Chapel Lane stands the post office (left), which originally offered a full counter service, but is now relegated to sorting and parcels distribution.

Here we have a clearer view of the tall Town Hall building to the right, and beyond it lies the premises of the National Provincial Bank.

The new Williams' Shaft, begun in 1895, is at the time of the photograph still being sunk to develop new sections of the main tin lode, and it was to reach a depth of 550 fathoms (3300ft) when the mine

In the years immediately prior to the Great War, a number of British car manufacturers got round the problem of the poor state of most of the country’s roads by offering ‘colonial’ versions of

When this picture of Pownell Hall was taken, it had been acquired by Henry Boddington, a member of the Manchester brewing family.

The Borrowdale Hotel is in one of the wildest valleys of Lakeland.

The Town Hall dates back to 1826; the building's Greek Doric style makes it one of Andover's most distinguished landmarks.

Looking to the north-east the course of the Western Cleddau can just be seen at the bottom of the picture beyond what would have been part of the Marychurch Foundry.

Much of St Mary's church, behind the mill, was used as a private house after the Dissolution; the ivy-covered remains of part of it can be seen here, attached to the right of the church.

Swallowed up by the suburbs of Market Harborough, this little village has managed to salvage some individuality.

Very few parts of the town are far from the beach.

The ivy-clad inn on the left of the photograph is the Miller of Mansfield, a famous pub in the Thames Valley.

This charming study shows part of the main street of Great Bookham, which grew up on the spring line of the North Downs.

This attractive little village in West Dorset stands at the junction of a number of ancient packhorse trails.

Poorly compacted, and composed of glacial drift, the cliffs of the north Norfolk coast have been compared to 'dirty tallow', being unstable and liable to erosion.

The 6th Duke of Devonshire supervised the design of Edensor (pronounced “Ensor”) in 1839 as a model estate village for his workers at nearby Chatsworth.