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THE BEAUTY of the area round Westbury, which stands on the western edge of Salisbury Plain, has remained unspoilt for centuries.

Probably dating back to a chapel-of-ease on the site in the 14th century, St Michael and All Angels is a striking landmark visible from most of the town.

Wainfleet is famous as the birthplace of William of Wayneflete, later Bishop of Winchester and founder of Winchester College school and Magdalen College, Oxford.

East and south of the church, the High Street has a number of good houses, including the 18th-century Elm Farmhouse in the distance.

Since it was gradually absorbed to become a suburb of Royal Tunbridge Wells, this small village south of Tonbridge supported a number of businesses in its commercial centre.

We are obviously well into the age of mass tourism. This photograph shows one of the late Victorian screw- driven steamers by the end of the pier.

Nether End c1955 Baslow, situated 8 miles west of Chesterfield and 12 miles south of Sheffield, was once a part of the parish of Bakewell, but became independent in July 1869, taking with it

The view shows the centre of Domesday Anstige, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park.

The main body of the church dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries, and was here in 1180.

Visitors clamber over the site of the old castle. Little of its fabric survives, and it is thought to have been one of the very earliest of Scotland's stone castles, dating from the 12th century.

This magnificent tour de force of flint and stone chequerwork was built in 1421 for the Guild of Holy Trinity, a wealthy group of merchants.

In the late 1950s, prompted by the highly visible contamination of the coastline, scientists undertook an extensive survey of the problem.

The present St Donat's castle stands on the site of a previous fortification. It was built by Sir William Stradling during the reign of Edward III, and remodelled during the Tudor period.

Two girls play with a hoop on the banks of the Thames, not far from Staines. Historically, Staines marked the end of the jurisdiction of the City of London over the river.

A view of the River Wye as it flows through the limestone gorge of Chee Dale, between Bakewell and Buxton.

Much of the quietness of old Powick was lost for ever in the 20th century when a new road from Malvern to Worcester was cut through the parish.

The magnificent late 12th-century priory church of St Mary and St Michael dominates this view of Devonshire Place.

In 1584 much of the town was destroyed by fire. Rebuilding has left Nantwich with a number of late-Tudor buildings, one of the most interesting of which is the Crown Hotel.

The building in the centre of the picture was the former butter and fish market.

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

The spire of St Nicholas's dominates the Market Place. In 1857 this Victorian church replaced an earlier church of St Nicholas, which dated from the 12th century - it had a tower.

It was already happening in the 1980s, when Royal Mail cleared the wharves on the south side of the river at Kingston and developed the largest mechanised letter office in the United Kingdom.

There are two of these large man-made ponds at the front of the college. This, the left-hand one, is always full of ducks and other wild fowl.

Richard I was responsible for establishing a settlement on Portsea Island, and it was he who built the first dock on Portsmouth in the late 12th century.