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The first steam-powered vessel to sail on Windermere, the Lady of the Lake, was built by Richard Ashburner of Greenodd.

The fishing fleet, having waited patiently for a breeze, can at last set sail in pursuit of the herring.

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eyebrowed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings - the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.

In the background, on the right of the picture, is the spire of the church of St Mary the Virgin.

The stone bench along the wall was the only seating in medieval times, and origin of the saying 'the weakest go to the wall'.

Originally 15th-century, St Paul's has been greatly restored, but it still offers a couple of treasures inside. One is the tomb of Lady Ann Chichester who died in 1723.

The view from the roof of Bent's Brewery. In the 12th century there was an Augustinian priory in the village.

In an earlier conflict John Bowyer, who was baptized at Biddulph in 1623, raised a company of foot for the Parliamentary army, and served with distinction at Hopton Heath.

The parish of Frant lies on the forest-ridge approximately 180 metres above sea level, and overlooks landscapes in both Kent and Sussex. The origin of its name suggests a former wilderness or desert.

The village of Horam, two miles south of Heathfield, is famous for its Merrydown vintage cider.

It was the home of the Guild of St Anne of Knowle (a religious and charitable foundation), but in later years it served many other purposes.

W J Porritt, Thomas Fair and Elijah Hargreaves from Rossendale were considered great pioneers in St Anne's; they later took an interest in Fairhaven, building the Promenade assisted by Thomas Riley of

This Fylde village changed only with the advent of motorised traffic.

Lying close to the larger holiday centre of Morecambe, Heysham has been popular with visitors since the Victorian period, many coming to sample the famous locally brewed nettle beer.

The large building on the right housed the premises of Cripps & Son, shoe retailers. Both the first and second floors were used as storage areas.

There are plenty of people about on this warm sunny day. To the left, children cycle in the road; others sit on benches or the pavement.

North of the bypass are Rumbridge Street and the High Street, offering quieter shopping streets.

Gonville and Caius College is on the left, along with James Gibbs' elegant Senate House, where students are awarded their degrees.

The home of the Strickland family for 750 years, Sizergh was originally a 14th-century pele tower with 15th, 16th, and 18th-century additions and alterations, including a Tudor great hall.

Famously the second-highest point in Essex (the highest being a patch of undistinguished woodland in the parish of Langley), Langdon Hills certainly impressed the traveller Arthur Young.

Built in 1877, it was badly damaged in the three-night 'Blitz' of 1941 which claimed so many of Swansea's buildings (and not a few of its more unfortunate inhabitants).

The clunch and Barnack limestone vaulted undercroft, or basement, of the present house is all that remains of an upper hall of the Benedictine nunnery founded in the 12th century by Isabel the Bolebec.

The church of St Peter occupies an island site where the main street divides.