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Aylesford is a knot of twisting streets, clinging to the side of the valley.

Cleeve Hill is the western edge of the Cotswolds, and at over a thousand feet the highest point. In the far distance are the hills of Wales, the Mendips and Exmoor.

The Romans originally laid out the streets of Wareham to match the four points of the compass. The street names of today, North, South, East and West, match this design.

William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, held the lordship of the manor through the reigns of Richard I, John and Henry III.

The City Art Gallery building was started in 1825 and completed in 1830 at a cost of £30,000.

During the 18th century, the roads Cherry Bounce, Chapel Street, Bell Road (now St Mary's Road), and George Street were all developing on the east side of the of the High Street and were in

Until the 1880s, Dunchurch was of far greater significance than Rugby itself.

A scene of a typical village pub: quiet, unassuming and somewhat down-at-heel, but an essential part of the fabric of English rural life.

Richmond's Norman fortress was begun by Alan the Red of Brittany in 1071 and dominates the entrance to Swaledale.

The castle was a fortified manor of the Bishops of Chichester; it was crenellated c1377 to defend the coastal area and the river estuary. The manor was granted long before the Norman Conquest.

The land for this park, west of the GWR Village, was donated in 1844 by Colonel T Vilett, one of the major landowners in the area, for the use of the railway community as a cricket ground and

The town of Broxbourne runs along the old north road, and was originally one of the largest parishes in the county.

The church of St John the Baptist at Royston was originally part of the 13th-century priory. At the Dissolution, the nave was demolished and the western arch of the tower was filled in.

As part of the redevelopment of the central section of Leeds, the Leeds Estates Company embarked on an ambitious scheme to transform the squalor between Vicar Lane and Briggate.

In the year of this photograph, Whitby is poised for a summer influx of new visitors via the new Scarborough to Whitby Railway, which opened on 6 July 1885.

The Cathedral's official title is The Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford. It has a unique place in the history of Oxford.

The dredging and reclamation of this part of the river was short lived, and today it has been turned into car parking space.

This photograph gives a good impression of the size of the building.

The photograph is dominated by a brick and stone building typical of its turn-of-the-century date, but in this southern sector of the town earlier houses are to be found, including a stone-faced building

This idyllic picture of the Brixham fishing fleet gives some idea of just how much the fishing industry dominated the town for hundreds of years.

Old Laleham stands back from the reaches of the Thames, and the early boating fraternity used to enjoy catching glimpses of it from the water.

Known today for its massive castle (begun in 1285), one of Edward I's chain of fortresses built to subdue the Welsh, this town on the shore of the Menai Strait at the mouth of the River Seiont is now staunchly

This view shows the alteration of the window and roofline of the central porch. The palace is Maidstone's oldest building, originally Norman, but substantially rebuilt in the 14th century.

The name of this inn is the Hero, after the most famous inhabitant of the Burnhams: Horatio Nelson, born in the rectory of nearby Burnham Thorpe, and later to become England's greatest admiral, and victor