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At the town centre, then as now, was the Market Square, mostly lying on the east side of the main street.

St George's was one of three churches built in Sheffield between 1825 and 1830 that were originally district chapels belonging to the parish church of St Paul's.

Joining the two courts of St John's College on either side of the River Cam is the Bridge of Sighs. It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from the one of the same name in Venice.

What better place to be when a period of quiet contemplation is the order of the day?

The wide High Street of the town of Skipton on the River Aire was the scene of a weekly livestock market until well into the 20th century, but it now accommodates a general street market on Mondays, Wednesdays

Dwarfing the surrounding buildings, the 43,000 square feet of England's mother-church and the seat of the Primate of All England is revealed in all its architectural glory from this unusual vantage point

By 1870 the 'New Town' not only covered the small parish of Crawley, but also parts of its neighbours, Ifield and Worth.

Court Lodge was the home of the lord of the manor.

Ray Park Avenue was one of the first roads laid out and has some houses of the 1870s.

Parts of the Lagan Canal were cuts made to bypass wide bends in the river, but most of the route is the river itself, with the tow-path added.

The old lords of Kingston were the Norman nobles, the Lacys, but this palatial Restoration house was built in 1663-5 for Sir Ralph Bankes, the son of the former attorney general Sir John.

In 1842 Port Erin was chosen as the location for a Marine Biological Station; it still exists, though these days it is a part of the University of Liverpool.

The parade of shops which lined this section of Upper Mulgrave Road on the approach to the entrance to Cheam Station, which is behind the trees on the left, includes on the extreme right a branch of the

Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses.

The so-called Giant's Grave in the churchyard of St Andrew's is actually a pair of tall Norse-influenced Saxon crosses with two hog-backed grave slabs in between.

Here we see one of Formby's older properties, a fine example of the type of cottage that was once common to this part of the coast.

After centuries of starvings, beheadings and executions, the site later became a haven of tranquillity in 19th-century Pontefract.

Ripon is one of England's smallest cathedral cities; in 1836 it became the centre of a new bishopric.

Dean Row chapel is one of a series of very similar Dissenter chapels built in North East Cheshire soon after the 1688 Toleration Act, testimony to the strong Nonconformist tradition that had developed

One of Campbell's White Funnel fleet, probably the 'Britannia', ties up at the pier.

Chideock, always pronounced without the 'e', is set in a landscape of ancient ridgeways and rolling hills.

The railed and culverted Thornton Beck runs through the village of Thornton Dale, east of Pickering on the edge of the North York Moors.

The parish of Salthouse extends over 1,559 acres of land, 15 of water and 31 of foreshore.

A large crowd can be seen in front of a temporary bandstand in a tent, a forerunner of the large canvas-covered bandstand.