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The viaduct which carries the main Sheffield-Leeds railway line dominates this view of the High Street of the South Yorkshire town of Denby Dale.

This seemingly idyllic rural summer scene on the banks of the River Brit, with its group of thatched cottages, lines of washing and vegetable garden, is brought acutely into focus by a closer

The village of Braemar is situated on the banks of Cluny Burn.

Thomas Ken, who was rector of Brighstone before becoming Bishop of Winchester, ministered to Charles II as he lay dying; accompanied Charles' illegitimate son the Duke of Monmouth on his way to the block

Park Lane, once the desolate by-road known as Tiburn Lane, was a refined street of palatial mansions enjoying expansive vistas of the Park by 1890.

This high village of the Weald looks out on a panoramic view of orchards and hopfields, although the foundation of its prosperity in the Middle Ages was based on weaving and iron-working.

This is one of the numerous large country homes which were constructed in this favoured part of the Surrey hills during Queen Victoria's reign.

Between periods of calm, Slaidburn once resounded with noise; above the bustle rose the ringing bark of the squire's favourite hound Bounty. The name of the inn had to change!

The village of Pyle is situated north of Porthcawl just off the M4 between Bridgend and Port Talbot.

The arrival of the turnpike in 1778, linking Dorchester with Somerset, had a profound effect on this village.

Mr Burden's shop and Post Office is the centre of village life. Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat—his cycle is parked under the signpost.

Thomas Berry, a yeoman farmer, built this house on the site of an abbey in 1745. In 1833 one of his descendants refaced the stonework, commemorating this with a Latin inscription over the front door.

centre with interpretative displays about the households and lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury who lived here.

This bustling scene of Redhill's High Street, now a pedestrian precinct, captures the brash, commercial spirit of this town, which developed after the arrival of the railway in 1841.

In this inn, formerly the vicarage, the centuries-old Hubberholme parliament met each year to auction the letting of 16 acres of rough upland pasture behind here.

The small stone bridges still cross the beck in front of the village Post Office in the pretty village of Bishop Monkton, south of Ripon in the valley of the River Nidd.

This was formerly the site of a Benedictine priory, founded in the reign of Henry I by Baldwin de Redvers, as a cell of the Norman monastery of Montburgh.

Its massive columns support the impressive stone-ribbed vaulted roof, the earliest example of rib vaulting in Europe.

The village was once the seat of the diocesan church of St Asaph (Llanasaph), which dated back to the 13th century.

Bashall Eaves stands on the banks of the river Hodder in the parish of Mitton.

The lamp tells of a long-established gas works; the railway came not long afterwards. The mile-post on the hill still tells of 70 miles to Dublin, but those are Irish miles.

The most notorious abbot of Furness Abbey was undoubtedly Alexander Banks. One William Case, on behalf of the people of Sellergarth, sued him in court in 1516.

This photograph shows the ivy-smothered shell keep and gatehouse of Restormel Castle at a time when the ruin was still a titular possession of the Prince of Wales.

Blundellsands beach forms part of the sixteen miles of sand stretching from Waterloo to Southport.