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These half-timbered houses, overlooked by the 15th-century church of St Mary the Virgin, were once homes for local tradesmen from the Jacobean Chilham Castle estate.

This street in a medieval and famous city is serenaded by the majestic Westgate Towers. New in Chaucer's time, they were built by Archbishop Sudbury and replaced a ruin on the same spot.

Fortunately, a stronger bridge was officially opened by the Vicar of Churchtown in 1984.

cliff top taking a picture of his ladies with the lens into the sun, he is at great risk of losing his and their lives by going near the edge of these dangerous cliffs, which are constantly being eroded by the

Oystermouth was captured by the Lord Rhys, but was later handed over to John de Braose by Llywelyn the Great.

Here we see the castle after its restoration by the Marquis of Bute. The main residential block, including the great hall, was sited along the south side of the inner curtain wall.

Replacing a medieval church that lay beyond the walled town's north gate, now commemorated by the street's name of Northgate Street, this church by Manners was started in 1835 in an early inaccurate Gothic

This was part of John Wood the Elder's Royal Forum of the 1740s, now unfortunately dominated by the interloping Gothic spire of St John the Baptist.

The Tower was built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee: this view was taken on 11 August 1899, and shows its formal opening by the Countess of Scarbrough.

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.

Though a royal fortress, Edward I was the last monarch to undertake large scale repairs and reconstruction; by the beginning of the 16th century it was in a dilapidated condition.

Inside the quaint little church of St Michael and All Angels is a George III coat of arms dated 1784, signed by the Richmond painter Robert Coatsworth; he helped to paint the scenery for the opening

Ogden Reservoir, north-west of Illingworth in West Yorkshire, dammed the waters of the Hebble Brook, and is now backed by the wind farm on Ovenden Moor.

Near the inn is a field which is said to have been used by the witches. Legend has it that the ground is poisoned, so the field has never been cultivated.

Next door is the Adult Continuing Education Centre, a division of Peter Symonds College, attended by the comedian Jack Dee when it was a grammar school.

The familiar store of Boots is to the left, and W H Smith is on the corner by the car that is turning.

The cenotaph was presented to the priory by Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII; it can be dated by the carving second from right, which shows a cock on a reel , a rebus for James Cockerill, penultimate

It was designed by the grandson of Sir Gilbert Scott, who had designed Preston Town Hall.

This beautiful Elizabethan house is four hundred years old, and is still owned by the descendants of Sir Henry Griffith, who designed and built it.

In 1924, a Miss Maberley died, leaving her three dilapidated churchyard cottages to the then vicar for use by the local poor and needy.

The Common is much appreciated by the local residents.

Madford House (left, behind the trees) stood on the site now occupied by the tax office.

Madford House (left, behind the trees) stood on the site now occupied by the tax office.

The street here is dominated on the south side by the slender spire of St Nicholas's church, unfortunately demolished in 1955.