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This attractive boat house is set at the foot of a steep cliff alongside the River Taf with its 'heron-priested' shore. The poet Dylan Thomas lived here for the last four years of his life.

In early times, it is believed to have been the home of the Grammar School. Later the Town Library, belonging to the Corporation - formed in the 17th and 18th centuries - was housed here.

Exmouth is Devon's oldest seaside resort, and this was reflected in the construction of several early and very prominent hotels.

We are on the Downs, just north of Seaford.The church of St Peter has a fine Norman fonty. Admiral Walker, who fought with Nelson, is buried here.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary

Dunsfold, north-west of Alfold, has a very large rectangular green, and the parish church of about 1270 is half a mile to the west.

This view captures well the design ethos of the period.

North-east of Guildford and now by-passed by the A3, Ripley has a long wide High Street and was full of coaching inns in earlier days.

Built by Edward I, Conwy Castle glowers at the head of this street scene as it dominates the town.

The gardens and cottages of this rural set piece of thatch and village green today are neat and tidy.

The church of St Margaret has Norman walling and windows. Hawksfold was the home of Anthony Salvin, an eminent architect.

Horbury lies at the heart of the West Yorkshire heavy woollen district. It was the birthplace of the architect John Carr, who started his training in his father's quarry.

The Church 1961 Heading back towards Highbridge and the end of this seaside tour, we head for East Brent on the north-east side of Brent Knoll; this is an Upper Lias limestone outlier rising steeply

These gaunt 19th-century ruins stand on top of the motte built in the late 11th century by Robert of Tosny on land granted to him by William the Conqueror.

An anonymous offer of £20,000 had been received, which would enable part of the land to be bought for the National Trust.

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.

The church of St Andrew and the rear of the buildings in St Mary's Street sit on the spur of land surrounded by the River Avon which attracted the Saxon settlers.

Here we see the white-washed walls of the Willington Hotel. Willington is today overshadowed by the massive cooling towers of the huge power station to the east of the village.

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

This is an old village, but there are plenty of older habitations nearby: this part of Dorset boasts an impressive collection of earthworks, burial barrows, ancient ridge paths and strip lynchets.

The detailing is borrowed from the eight blank panels in the Medici chapel in Florence; on these panels are carved the names of the town's dead of the First World War.

The total cost of the building was £7,465.

The centre of Basildon has served the local community well since the 1950s, and remains a popular place to shop.

Gulls forage for food in the frozen wastes.The ice has broken and the waters of the river released.