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In this street, many of the original features of the Georgian buildings, such as small shop windows, have been retained; the wide streets of Aberaeron are a distinct contrast to most others in the county

This late Victorian scene of the High Street typifies a more tranquil era, where the only signs of traffic pollution appear to be from the passing of the pony and trap further down the road!

A finely-composed scene, reflecting the verdant and rural side of this former military town. The view shows one of the wooded and sloping pathways that abound on the steep sides of the North Downs.

A most interesting architectural feature of the church of St James the Elder at Llanvetherine is the tower.

A feature of several East Devon villages is a brook running alongside a main street.

Typically, much of the older part of Maidenhead has long since disappeared, replaced by modern urban development.

Boulters Lock is probably the most famous lock on the Thames, and was the first and the lowest on the river of the first set of eight to be built under the legislation of 1770.

By 1896 Wigan was taking public health seriously, and not only in the provision of hospital beds.

This inn stands in the centre of the village by the side of the main London to Worthing main road on the route of Stane Street.

The Imperial must have been the largest of the several hotels catering for the traveller as well as for the more frequent tripper from Belfast. The number of tall boarding houses was still growing.

A picturesque collection of cottages and shops line the spacious main street of this Georgian coaching town, as we look towards the triangular Bowling Green, while the photographer's activities attract

This view looks south towards London, along the narrow stretch of Ermine Street or the Old North Road, with its overhanging 17th-century houses and gables.

'In honour of William John Wills, native of Totnes. The first with Burke to cross the Australian continent. He perished in returning 28th June 1861'.

Situated in the shadow of the grand church of St Helen's, the castle, now in the care of English Heritage, originated as a Norman manor house; it ultimately become the property of the Breton La Zouch family

One of Masham's distinctive features is its large market place, where fairs would see as many as 70,000 to 80,000 sheep and lambs up for sale.

The broad High Street is part of the Fosse Way, and is dominated by the Redesdale Market Hall, a fine Victorian Tudor building designed by Sir Ernest George in 1887.

This view of Ombersley's main street gives an idea of the range of facilities in the village.

Ber Street leads the traveller out through the southern fringes of the city. This quiet, shaded street offered a little respite from the bustle of the market centre.

The land was acquired by the City Corporation in 1934 at a cost of £8,000. The Debtors' Prison was opened as a museum, which was then extended to the Women's Prison building.

The gardens, the railway line and Princes Street occupy the area once covered by the waters of Nor' Loch.

This corner of Eastleigh has changed significantly: the new buildings interposed with the older ones on the left-hand side of the street offer a rich mix of architectural styles.

Subsequent silting of the river mouth and its movement to the east thanks to a shifting shingle beach led to the decline of the port at Steyning, and the establishment of the town of New Shoreham by the

Sutton Park is a National Nature Reserve, which puts it among the top rank of our protected areas.

Lancaster was an important place throughout the medieval period, but although the pattern of many of its old streets remain, few of today's buildings pre-date the Georgian period.