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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.

Looking across the green at the airy and spacious village, we see the Old Rectory (left); the tallest of the next three buildings is the old police station and court house, with the White Heifer pub on

Seven miles to the east of Hull but totally isolated from urban ways, Paull has a history stretching back to the days of Charles I.

To the west of Old Quad (above, 72159) lies Old Big School, surmounted by School House dormitories.

Elsecar is situated 3 miles south of Barnsley. This is the industrial side of the vast Wentworth Estate: Elsecar was at the forefront of coal exploitation in the 18th century.

Middle Row juts out (bottom left), and the raised pavement leads to Bell Cliff (bottom left).

St Oswald's church at the top of this ravine used to be on the edge of the East Riding.

The Downs, like Horton and the common, were now part of London's Green Belt, and no further development would take place on them.

By the beginning of the 17th century the centre of Glasgow had shifted south, to the foot of the High Street where it joined the Saltmarket.

This is the T-junction at the centre of Hurst Green, seen here in the gentle post-war years. This stretch of road has a history all of its own.

Kingstown was the Irish terminal of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Co, who successfully operated the mail service between Holyhead and Dublin for several decades.

The castellated entrance to Townley Hall, on the A671 Todmorden Road at Burnley Wood, was photographed when it was still a private estate.

Three of the famous Liverpool ferry boats are leaving the landing stage.

Today, all that remains of the Plume of Feathers is the stableyard, now used as garages, which can be seen from Tythings Court.

THIS is the third church to be built on the site. The first was a 9th-century wooden Saxon church.

This is a spectacular view from the top of Portland, with the expanse of the Chesil Bank on the left, stretching 16 miles along the Dorset coast to Barton Cliff, and the broad expanse of Portland Harbour

In 1792, a company was formed by Lancaster merchants; they saw a canal as a way of getting cheap coal from Wigan and getting other goods out to the towns in the heart of Lancashire, and to the growing

The story of how the town got its name is an unusual one. When the railway arrived, a station was built here at Marsden.

To go to Styal now, it takes some imagination to see this place as a prime example of cutting edge technology, but 200 years ago this was the case.

Designed by Capt John Kitson, Royal Engineers, Fort Perch Rock was built between 1826 and 1829 at a cost of £27,000 to defend the seaward approach to Liverpool and the Mersey.

On 8 May 1644 the Parliamentarians struck. The Royalists appear to have fortified the church and the area of the green, but quickly withdrew to the former.

Piper Bank appears in the census returns of 1851 and on maps of Rossendale as a place name.

In 1913 the Council received an offer of land skirting Woodcote Hall from Lord Rosebery as 'proof of my deep and abiding affection for Epsom'.

The market moved from the High Street to a new site behind the north side of the High Street in 1926.