Search Results

Cleeve Hill is the western edge of the Cotswolds, and at over a thousand feet the highest point. In the far distance are the hills of Wales, the Mendips and Exmoor.

Among the facilities at places like the Norbeck Hall Hydro were tennis courts and an indoor swimming pool.

The town features slightly in his novel 'Two on a Tower', which was written at that time. Hardy was fond of sitting in the Minster with only the organist and his music for company.

Sherborne Lane is shown here when the Crown and Anchor, the large building at the foot of the hill, was still open.

The winding road out of Newlyn rounds Penlee Point then dips down to this celebrated fishing village that nestles within stout stone breakwaters. At its back it is fringed by hills.

Crays Hill lies equidistant between Wickford and Billericay, its crest just above the 150?ft contour.

A moody shot of Charles and William Warren`s boathouse at Eype Mouth, southwards across Lyme Bay. Crab, lobster and crayfish pots are stacked by the door.

On the left is the sombre but reassuringly secure frontage of the Capital and Counties Bank.

The name Buildwas is thought to come from Old English, meaning 'a building in a swamp'.

The Bear and Billet public house in Lower Bridge Street was built in 1664; until 1867 it was the town house of the earls of Shrewsbury.

Henry Frederick, Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk left his estate to his fourth son, Charles Howard of Greystoke, when he died in 1652.

The town had been keen to keep out of the National Park when it was created in 1954 as it perceived that this may restrict such development, whereas places like Lynton, Lynmouth and Porlock saw the

It is 1897, and a golden age for the Clyde excursion steamer industry is dawning: operators sense that the ban on landings at some piers on the Sabbath will soon be broken.

Its massive columns support the impressive stone-ribbed vaulted roof, the earliest example of rib vaulting in Europe.

to navigate safely the shifting sands, which are full of murderous sinkholes.

This old Basildon road name came from the soft, sticky London clay to which the road reverted whenever it rained.

The shops behind the big lamp in the centre of the road are interesting. Next to the draper's shop on the left is Walmsley's Stationers and Bookshop.

The broad straight streets tell of land recovered from river and docks. The church tells of the human needs that followed.

The Esplanade winds around to the Pier and Pavilion Theatre, a favourite stroll for the Edwardian visitor.The pier at this time was 1,050 feet long, and a favoured location for watching the steamers

The imposing Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club stands sentinel at the entrance to Lowestoft pier as holidaymakers enjoy a ride in the open carriages pulled by a miniature locomotive steaming along to

The Thames is not sufficiently wide at Oxford for the conventional kind of race in which one boat, known as an eight, overtakes another.

At the east end of the town is Alford Mill, a six-storey, five-sail mill built in 1813 by Sam Oxley, an Alford millwright.

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

At 22 acres, Manningtree is the smallest parish in Essex; it is also the smallest town in England.