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This photograph, showing the castle walls and the dome of the Debtors' Prison, was taken from the fourth recorded bridge, which was replaced by the present one in 1955 owing to the demands of traffic.

But the railway line itself, the Taff Vale Railway, was planned by Brunel, who was inspired by the innovative Cornishman, Richard Trevithick.

Although ravaged by the weather, the cross has an interlaced pattern of ropework, below which are varied sculptures, including a horse-rider.

Thankfully, water from springs, not the Trent, has always been used by the town's brewers.

In 1838, the writer Robert Maudie observed: 'church and the village are beautifully situated, the former close by the bank of the river'.

The creeper on the chimneystack has been well trimmed, and so have the horse chestnut trees - although the old chimney still shows signs of damage caused by the creeper.

This nostalgic and peaceful late-summer view shows corn stooks above the little town by the lake whose Welsh name, Llyn Tegid, means 'beautiful lake'.

In 1823 the Chamber of Commerce were so concerned about the high cost of the port dues being demanded by the Bristol Dock Co that they inquired as to what charges would be levied at other ports for the

Demolished in the 1930s, Eden Hall stood on the site of an earlier medieval house built by the Musgrave family.

Much in this view has changed since 1890: the mid 19th-century lock-keeper's cottage was rebuilt by the Thames Conservancy in 1931 and the area to the left has been built up with industrial buildings and

Designed by the normally staid Sir Robert Taylor, the church is inventive and free Gothic, but of 1777.

Old Sarum is a hillfort built by the people of the Iron Age, who came to Britain from around 500BC. Its spectacular ramparts and ditches enclosed their community.

Defoe records that he saw 'perhaps two hundred sail of ships' lying by the town during the winter months, 'as safe as in a wet dock'.

By the 1800s the town was packed with visitors 'taking the waters' and hotels and guest houses sprung up to accommodate them.

There are swings on the beach (extreme left of picture) and tea, refreshments and hot water can be obtained from the café by the roadside.

Beccles Tower, adjacent to the church, was bought by the town in 1972 for one Beccles penny, but over £68,000 was needed to restore it!

Geddington, by-passed by the A43, is a delightful stone-cottaged backwater. Here the photographer looks south-east towards the church of St Mary Magdalene.

Its market was first chartered in 1283; in this view the Market Place is beyond the medieval parish church, here partly screened by the 1906 Church Hall.

The town was probably established as a port on the Wainfleet Haven by Bardney Abbey, but by the 15th century the haven silted up and the port declined.

In the form of a cross, it is built in the Corinthian style, and surmounted by the giant dome which rises on arches over the centre.

The latter was the site of an ancient chantry, and is now owned by the National Trust.

Now in the care of the National Trust, it is run by the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.

In the background is the Old College Hotel, a name that echoes back to the founding of the College of Jesus by the Archbishop of York in 1500.

The plain east window was to be replaced in 1922 by the colourful stained glass of a memorial window to Brigadier Barker, who was killed in action in the First World War.