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From Old Wallasey (meaning 'the low land where the Welsh live') you can see over the Wirral to the Dee and Wales and the Irish Sea beyond.

The building we see here is largely Elizabethan; we know from the local records that it was `new-builded` in 1597, but archaeologists have now worked out that some of the internal timbers date

In March 1902 she sold the hall and its 62 acres to Burnley for the very low price of £17,500, and paid for the art gallery it housed.

Since 1965 an extension to the hotel has replaced the low building beside the thatched house.

A long straggling village on a (very) low ridge, Misterton has its medieval parish church at its north end, with a fine stained glass window by John Piper in the Lady Chapel added in 1965.

The view is westwards to the ledges of Cann Harbour (centre left) extending into Lyme Bat at low tide.

Behind the spot where the photographer must have stood is Windrush Valley School, founded in 1951, and the low building on the extreme right of the picture, next to the three-gabled house

Low tide in the Basin of what was still generally known as Bridport Harbour.

This is a village in two halves, High Town and Low Town, a quarter mile apart.

For those who made the short sail out from Belfast, the charms of this piece of coast were obvious: a bay lined with low, craggy rocks and sands providing picturesque bathing pools.

Jane Austen writes in 'Persuasion': 'Charmouth with its high ground and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet retired bay, backed by dark cliffs where fragments of low rock

Shapland & Petters works is now built, served by rail from the Ilfracombe line behind the new houses (left).

The gracious two-span stone bridge spans the River Colwyn, which is running low in the summer drought.

The picture, at low tide, looks northwards to Ozone Terrace, the Lifeboat Station (centre), the Coastguard Station and the Bonded Store, and along to the end of Cobb hamlet at Cobb Cliff (centre

A peculiarity of Loftus town hall is that there is no south-facing clock face, because funds were low and this face was mostly out of sight, so expense was saved by only buying three faces!

Yet the tides have played the town foul over the centuries, silting up successive estuaries of the River Nene so that now the town is stranded ten miles from the sea.

The Coln runs alongside the village street, where ducks waddle along the tops of low stone walls and spotted trout nose their way through the waving waterweeds.

This lively low-angle shot, virtually from ground level, looks north-eastwards along the Market Place and the northern side of East Street at its western end.

Low wooden stalls along the walls of the choir accommodate the College; a large expanse of bare wall was left to be filled with a series of wall paintings.

This photograph shows a village opening out onto the low hedges and standard trees of the 1769 enclosure fields, which in their turn overlie the prominent ridge and furrow of an earlier age.

Yet the tides have played the town foul over the centuries, silting up successive estuaries of the River Nene so that now the town is stranded ten miles from the sea.

The gracious two-span stone bridge spans the River Colwyn, which is running low in the summer drought.

We look north-westwards at low tide to the cuboid shape of Sundial Cottage, and Library Cottage, which incorporates exotic but re-set older lead-work from France.

The river is at this point scarcely affected by the tides, which are two hours later than at London Bridge, and the low and high water levels are respectively 16½ and 1½ feet higher, the bed