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As the hills are owned by Birmingham, it is reasonable to include the area in this book.

The Post Office (left) also advertises Bronte books and postcards, while the Bronte Guest House is visible behind the antiques shop (right centre).

A contemporary guide book extolled Bournemouth's climate: 'it is perhaps most beneficial to invalids during the fall of the year and the early spring, when it will compare favourably with many of the Mediterranean

The village store in Holcombe Rogus is consigned to the history books, although a local garage now sells some of the items offered here.

At the time of this photograph it was already 'much resorted to in summer by picnic parties', said a guide-book.

Note the symmetry of this early residential development on Lake Road East with its grand row of houses book-ended by conical towers.

The fishermen are sorting nets and a crab or lobster pot, while three children are posed sitting in their midst reading a book.

Owned for centuries by the Aspinall family, Pendleton was an old village when the Domesday Book was compiled.

This is the most northerly of all the photographs in our book.

Much Wenlock is the most delightfully evocative town, so much so that Ellis Peters (the local author of the Brother Cadfael detective books set in the 12th century) once said of the town that you almost

Mention of a Roman signal station in the Domesday Book in 1086 dates the history of this area back as far as the fourth century.

The Victorian guide book writer J Burney Yeo complained that the new town had 'no esplanade or promenade' and found the burgeoning resort very dull in comparison with others.

A few miles west from Grimsby, the village of Laceby once appeared in the Guinness Book of Records as possessing the two closest pubs – The Waterloo and The Nags Head.

He kept a 'little shanty' on the cliffs to which it was his habit to retire, to 'be alone with his books, his thoughts and with God'.

The heavily-restored church dates from the 13th century, and inside are a book showing the names of all the 350 victims of the plague, and the chair used by the rector, William Mompesson.

Some old guide books claim the name derives from the sloe (or blackthorn) tree, but it more likely comes from 'slough', meaning a muddy place.

We are looking across Irby Road and along Thigwall Road.

He kept a 'little shanty' on the cliffs to which it was his habit to retire, to 'be alone with his books, his thoughts and with God'.

By the time of Domesday Book, 'Bexelei' was recorded as a small village, which had scarcely recovered from the Norman invasion.

The words are first quoted in Thomas Fuller`s 1662 book Worthies of England.

This is now the Rashleigh Arms, named after the family who still own the village and live at nearby Menabilly House, immortalised as Manderley by Daphne du Maurier in her book 'Rebecca'.

He did much of his early oral history recording in the village; this formed the basis of many books, including 'Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay' in 1956.

Sherborne is a charming town of book and antique shops, an essential stop in any exploration of Dorset.

The Tramways Act of 1870 gave powers to Bristol Corporation to take over the system at book price in 1915, or at any seventh year thereafter.