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Locals refer to 'the Island' by the bridge at Westgate. In fact, it has not been an island for many years, but local terminology for places is not easily changed.

By the door there is a carousel display of local postcard views by one of Francis Frith's major rivals, Raphael Tuck.

Situated five miles north of Sheffield, the large parish of Ecclesfield was semi-industrialised by the late 18th century.

As early as the 10th century, this vast tract of wooded landscape was known as 'sher wood', meaning 'the wood belonging to the county or shire', and by the 12th century it was a royal forest subject

This feature built by the road was an artificial waterfall and rustic bridge, with rocks giving the impression of a mountain scene.

An onslaught of traffic-controlling measures made necessary by the proximity of the entrance to the Kingsway Tunnel under the River Mersey has made parking at the kerbside an art form seldom

His evocative word pictures saw visitors, including many leading aesthetes and theatre personalities, come by the trainload to the area.

This chapter's tour finishes with an architectural flourish in Albury, a village still blighted by the A25.

This quieter and more characterful part of Bagshot is by-passed by the London Road, and the M3 is not far away.

It is still at the heart of the town, but now it has a black metal surround erected by the Town Council.

Shoppers could club together and hire them by the drive: 1s for 1-2 persons, 1s 6d for 3 persons and 2s for 4 persons.

Charles Dickens was a frequent visitor to the castle and in the 1980s the TV drama series By the Sword Divided was filmed here.

Friars Fleet winds along the back of King's Lynn and joins the River Ouse close by the quay. Southgate is a remnant of the old town walls.

The first stone castle was built by David I; it was extensively modified around 1411 following the sack of the town by the Lord of the Isles the previous year.

This town was almost completely formed and defined by the production of coal.

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul was attached to a nunnery founded by the abbot of Ramsey in c1006 and dissolved in 1537.

But the family, who were the most powerful in England during the Middle Ages, were constantly in conflict with the king, and the building was finally rendered indefensible by the Parliamentarians during

The pub, the Horse and Groom, is followed by the Central Fish Bar.

It followed in the tradition of two earlier arches, also designed by the eighty-year-old local artist Lucy Kemp-Welch, for the 1937 Silver Jubilee of George V and the Coronation of George VI in 1937

Although owned by the Crown from 1461, it was in ruins by 1538.

Along past the Friday Street junction is Arlett's launch hire office by the river, (H73006, pages 52-53) a 1950 building, now Alf Parrott Moorings Ltd.

This village stands on Watling Street close by the Little Stour.

The name Borden means 'woodland pasture by the hill'. A number of Roman coins and the foundations of two Roman buildings were dug up at Sutton-Barn here in 1846.

Backed by the tall 52-year-old buildings of the Esplanade, the Parade was Rhyl's only real attempt at elegant seaside architecture.