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There was a pilchard fleet here, and the fish cellar claimed to be the largest in the county.

It is owned by Lincolnshire County Council and has been restored to full working order. A few windmills feature in this collection: Lincolnshire once had over seven hundred of them.

A handful of wagons and handcarts, along with two cyclists in the foreground, are the only traffic on what was to become one of the county town's most congested roads.

Sometimes described as the county's finest unspoilt Elizabethan country house, Barlborough Hall has stood to the north of Barlborough, a north-east Derbyshire village, for four centuries.

It boasts one of the finest carved rood screens in the county - it is mentioned in the church records of 1479.

Although most of the castle was destroyed in 1649 after the Civil War, that which remains is classed amongst the county's oldest surviving structures.

Here, though, in more tranquil days, St Andrew's, one of the largest of the county's churches, overlooks the village centre.

Tucked away under the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of Middlemarch here in 1871.

tradesmen pose for the cameraman in front of the ornate octagonal open Market Cross in the Market Place, centrepiece of this lovely little town which many people believe to be the most beautiful in the old county

Peeping into view above the rooftops of these cottages, now sadly gone, is the elegant spire of St Katherine's Church, one of the tallest in the county.

The workers in these industries were often very rough: the area was known for its drunken orgies, riotous wakes and blood sports - the last bull-baiting in the county took place here in 1833.

Registers of baptisms from 1558 to 1961, of marriages from 1558 to 1971 and of burials from 1558 to 1909 from the church are at the County Records Office, along with many transcripts of monumental inscriptions

On the right is the headquarters of the 4th Volunteer Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment; it was one of the great county regiments, often known by its nickname of the Bloody Eleventh.

Port Talbot is an industrial town in the county of Glamorgan.

Dating back to Norman times it was one of a number of collegiate churches established in the county; others included Penkridge, Tamworth and Wolverhampton. These churches enjoyed special status.

The river flowing beneath the 15th-century bridge is the Darent, which rises near the county boundary with Surrey near Westerham and runs through a myriad of Kent villages to the Thames near Long-reach

Close to the county boundary with Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, the unusually-named village of Bozeat was at the heart of a thriving weaving industry 600 years ago; the Weavers' Guild donated a rich

He was a well known Liverpool architect, responsible for building Sunlight Village on the other side of the county in the Arts and Crafts style, although the Morris and Co windows in the

At this time only some 10 per cent of the county's agricultural land was in the hands of owner-occupiers; the majority was still controlled by the great estates.

houses on the left were built in the forecourt of the old gaol (out of view to the left); it had closed in 1868 after the assize courts finally went to Reading, and Abingdon's long battle to be the county

Even so it was still, in the 16th century, described as 'the greatest market town in the county of Hereford'.

On the corner is the London and County Bank, which, in time, will become the National Westminster Bank.

This magnificent Elizabethan mansion is one of the county's gems. The wonderful setting, deer park and views of the South Downs enhance its beauty. Little has changed here since Tudor times.

This magnificent Elizabethan mansion is one of the county's gems. The wonderful setting, deer park and views of the South Downs enhance its beauty. Little has changed here since Tudor times.