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Here we have a general view of Halton and its castle from the west. The castle was built by the new Norman lord of the manor of Halton, Nigel Fitzwilliam, in around 1071.

The Devil's Arrows is nowadays composed of three stones. They stand in North Yorkshire, close to the A1: it is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the county.

Redevelopment of the Parade started c1870. Lime trees were planted in the 1880s to start the Avenue.

Maidstone was the head of navigation of the Medway for centuries. This was because the river's upper reaches were crowded with fisheries and mills that impeded navigation.

Chancellor had amassed in excess of £40,000 in income paid to the Corporation during that time.

Two of Oxford's most famous colleges, Trinity and Balliol, stand on the left side of Broad Street, famous for its bookshops, among which is Blackwell's.

William Julian Courtauld, of Pennypot in Halstead, gave this fountain to the town of Braintree in memory of King George V.

The steeply-sloping cobbled Market Place in the centre of Wirksworth was the centrepiece of the restoration of this former lead mining town, which won a Casa Nostra award in the 1980s.

Here we see one of the unsung heroes of the Fleet.

The trees soften the box-like lines of the church, and the well-filled graveyard contains many monuments to the people of Accrington.

On the top of the hill are the remains of Oldbury Castle (an Iron Age fort) and the striking Lansdowne Monument erected in 1845 to the memory of an ancestor of a local landowner.

Charminster stands across the valley of the River Frome from Dorchester. It has grown considerably since this picture was taken.

Bovington is the home of the popular tank museum, where a great many tanks and armoured military vehicles can be seen.

We are on the peaceful, reed-fringed shores of Rydal Water, near Grasmere. Rydal was the home of William Wordsworth from 1813 until his death in 1850, and this was one of his favourite lakes.

Edward Gibbon, the historian who wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', lived at the Manor House as a child.

A Backyard 1903 The everyday drudgery of turn of the century life, before modern household appliances eased the burden, is displayed in this portrait of three elderly ladies in this Hitchin backyard

The great chasm of Blackgang Chine was an early tourist attraction on the Isle of Wight, with its dramatic waterfall and eroded colourful cliffs.

Here we see the east front of Chatsworth, where a team of gardeners with their carts full of bedding plants are working on the Italian gardens.

The beautiful village of Bredon stands at the foot of Bredon Hill, and is deservedly on everyone's list of favourite English villages.

The church of Headbourne Worthy is one of the oldest in southern England: it stood for long years before William the Conqueror won the realm at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

The church of Headbourne Worthy is one of the oldest in southern England: it stood for long years before William the Conqueror won the realm at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

The old pilchard-curing cellar, or 'palace', beside the shore in the foreground was one of the largest in Cornwall.

This general view of Ambleside, at the northern end of Windermere, was taken from the slopes of Loughrigg Fell.

Beyond the slipway (centre) are the open doors of the new lifeboat station, built in 1984 and housing the Spirit of Derbyshire, a Mersey Class boat capable of 16 knots and with a range of 145 nautical