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The older anchorages of Sutton Harbour and Stonehouse, with the greater expanse of the Hamoaze and Plymouth Sound beyond, created a perfect naval base long before the new town of Devonport was founded.

Queen's College is named after Philippa, wife of Edward III, whose chaplain founded the college. It was originally intended to educate 'poor boys' from the north of England.

Once one of the most important ports west of Bristol, Fowey in 1346 was wealthy enough to contribute 47 ships and over 700 men to Edward III's blockade of Calais.

The Boating Lake, to the east of the pier, was always popular with children. Families would often hire deckchairs to sit and picnic beside the pool.

The simple little 13th-century parish church of the Holy Cross at Upper Langwith, east of Bolsover and close to the border of Nottinghamshire, may not have a tower, but it is nevertheless a gem of Perpendicular

The head office of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, built in 1869, is now Lloyds Bank, and is just one of a row of substantial, impressive buildings along the northern side of the Market Square.

Budleigh Salterton stands to the west of the silted estuary of the River Otter. Its own beach is sandless and full of large pebbles, which seem to sing as the tides play across them.

Many of the kings of Wessex were buried in the Saxon Cathedral, the foundations of which can be seen on this side of the present building.

Beyond the water meadows of the River Itchen is the Iron Age hillfort of St Catherine's Hill, the site of a maze which perhaps was used by penitent local monks, who would be blindfolded as they attempted

To give the bridge just one coat of paint requires 6,000 gallons of paint.

If you need it, here is the evidence of unchanged houses over sixty years, although fish and chips are now on the national menu.

This building, which was part of Leeds University, was designed by T A Lodge and opened in 1951. Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

This churchyard stands at the top of Thundersley Church Road, well removed from the bustle of the town below.

Christchurch was actually an historic town of Hampshire when this photograph was taken, though it had an undoubted influence on nearby Dorset.

Five miles south of St Austell, Mevagissey is first recorded in 1410. The local class of pilchard driver and long liner was about 40ft in length with a beam of 12ft.

This Georgian promenade around the base of the castle provides impressive vistas of the river below and across to the other side.

Many of the cottages inside the Forest boundary are of considerable antiquity, being either renovations or replacements of buildings that have stood on the same sites for centuries; it is hard to imagine

This beautiful Tudor mansion was built at the end of the reign of Henry VIII by the successful lawyer Sir John Hynde, partly from materials salvaged when they pulled down the church of St Etheldreda in

The headquarters of the Yorkshire Gliding Club at Sutton Bank, on the edge of the North York Moors high above the Vale of York with views to the distant Pennines, must be one of the most spectacular in

Faulkland hamlet, in the parish of Hemington, declined with the end of its coal mining industry.

Here we can see Winsford nestling in the Exe valley below Bye Hill, with the valley of the Winn winding up to the left.

Built to link the Promenade to the attractions of Princes Park, the doubly-named bridge rests on two artificial islands in the Marine Lake.

Geese run loose on the grass at Mannington hamlet, midway between the villages of Holt and Horton in the hills north of Wimborne.

The gatehouse has distinctive diaper brick patterning and the arms of Bishop John Russel (1480-94).