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By building a new castle at Carlisle, William Rufus was cutting what was left of ancient Cumbria in two.

Manor Park Road runs along the east side of Manor Park. This view is taken a little way north of its junction with Carshalton Road.

The village of Northchapel, which is situated 5 miles north of Petworth, was formerly a chapelry of Petworth, and only became a parish in its own right after an Act of Parliament in 1693.

Washington, at the crossroads of two ancient routes, lies at the northern head of a 'wind gap' in the undulating chalk downland of high ridges and dry valleys.

This famous landmark situated at 22a Clifton Drive has always had this name because of its pure white exterior.

A little out of shot is the church of St Mary, which has an unusual gravestone in memory of Phillis Humphreys, who died at the age of 58 in 1763.

The hounds cluster around the door of this venerable white stuccoed landmark, which has been an inn since 1388.

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

Most of the delightful old houses along this street were constructed during the 15th century, at a time when the village prospered as part of the profitable cloth trade centred on Cranbrook.

Above the modern shopfronts and advertising signs, the picturesque assortment of buildings bear testimony to the city's rich history.

An Edwardian, steeply-gabled terrace of shops and flats overlooks the dignified stone island War Memorial of 1923, with its stepped approach.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

The village of Halsall is situated near to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The village once had its own grammar school; the building is now the choir vestry of St Cuthbert's.

Sharing its name with the river in whose valley it lies, Darwen grew rapidly as a result of industrialisation in the early 19th century, and many of the buildings along Market Street were

Most of Alcester Street was demolished in the 1960s, but this small part of it survived.

Cowplain developed because of the main road from Portsmouth to London; its name means 'a clearing for cows'.

This is another picturesque Hampshire village, home to a good selection of perfect whitewashed thatched cottages.

An artist (left) settles down to capture some of this marvellous scenery on canvas. A small selection of boats can be seen moored here.

The church exterior is of Bisley stone, while that used for the interior walls, most of the pulpit and the base of the font, comes from Painswick.

These are one of five sets of locks used to even out the water level along the canal.

Much of Colwall developed in late Victorian times as a result of the building of the railway line and its station.

Early Woburn suffered by fire in 1505, and again in 1724, but was entirely rebuilt on both occasions.

Sutton Park is a National Nature Reserve, which puts it among the top rank of our protected areas.

These three similar shots of St Michael's span half a century, but only in 1955 do we notice the restricted area of the burial ground around the church by the appearance of a substantial brick wall.