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This delightful backwater of the Great Ouse is about as charming as you can get. The church is mostly medieval, and the unusual truncated style of its spire is the result of a hurricane in 1741.

A mile to the west of Praa Sands is Prussia Cove, a narrow inlet which takes its name from John Carter, an 18th-century smuggler whose nickname was the King of Prussia.

Gillan Creek, just south of the mouth of the Helford River, is remote enough for smuggling to have been carried on here into the late 19th century, long after the crackdown in the aftermath of the Napoleonic

A special memorial in the church of St Mary the Virgin is dedicated to Ruth Boswell, daughter of the King of the Gypsies.

A fine open view of the harbour, with cabin cruisers, yachts and small fishing boats at anchor. Various types of working cranes add interest to the skyline, evidence of important port activities.

Clustered alongside the harbour, the older part of Poole is well worth exploring. In the 19th century, the town had many independent breweries.

We are on the southern slope of the Downs, north of Chichester. Boxgrove Priory, of the Benedictine Order, was founded in 1105.

Looking across the Menai Straits to Anglesey, the city of Bangor is the largest town in the north-west corner of Wales, the former principality of Gwynedd, and home to an ancient diocese and the University

Cromer was one of the most fashionable resorts for gentlefolk in late Victorian Britain. The story of the town as a popular holiday destination began when the railway arrived in 1877.

The church sits in a well-treed landscape, close to the basically late 16th-century Hall of the Hartopp family, who financed the building of the church in 1851.

This broad is almost a mile long, and at this part of it the dinghy passengers and the cattle are enjoying a quiet moment.

The significance of Town Bridge is that of an enduring physical presence.

The camera looks north, with Old Schools on the left; this is effectively the original Harrow School building of 1608, with the wing seen here added by C R Cockerell in 1819.

Below, a shingle beach with patches of pea-grit provides a spot for rest and relaxation between Raffey's Ledge and the Mouth Rocks, where the River Char enters the sea.

In the 10th century, when permission was granted for a house to be built on the bar, the yearly rentcharged was sixpence.

A marvellously peaceful view of Lough Cloon, about eight miles north of Ballinrobe, one of the many lakes in this part of Mayo, of which the largest is Lough Mask.

Park Lane, once the desolate by-road known as Tiburn Lane, was a refined street of palatial mansions enjoying expansive vistas of the Park.

In 1965, the municipal borough of Twickenham was merged with those of Barnes and Richmond (against the wishes of many residents) to become the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames under the

Just south of Chipping Norton is the handsome church tower of the appropriately-named village of Churchill; the tower is a copy of the tower at Magdalen College, Oxford.

LIKE THE INHABITANTS of many coastal towns where creeks and estuaries were formed, the people of Fareham used the sea to extract salt, which before the days of refrigeration was an essential ingredient

For many of us, photographs taken in the 1950s and 1960 remind us of our childhood days.

This more expansive view of the valley conveys a feeling of peace and beauty.

It was from the top of the Goblin Tower that the keys to the castle and town were hurled at the feet of the Parliamentarian commander Major General Mytton upon the surrender of the Royalist garrison.

Not far away from the village are local quarries where a kind of gravel called Burley Rock was excavated in earlier times.