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The house was designed by the eminent architect, Walter Brierley of York (who also designed Dyke Nook, the home of the Blake family on Whalley Road).

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

Pinora, recorded in the Feet of Fines in 1232, is a village of considerable beauty and well-manicured charm.

This area was once the site of the city's horse fair.

The church also boasts a superb ring of 10 bells; the Society of Change Ringers of St Wulfram's was founded in 1781, and is the town's oldest club.

The forbidding shape of Dartmoor rises in the background of this view of the Great Western Railway viaduct over the River Erme.

Grindleford's war memorial (left) at the foot of Sir William Hill in the upper part of the village is based on the design of Eyam's Saxon preaching cross, and so it repeats the strange truncated appearance

Described in 1549 as 'the round castle of Buitte callit Rosay of the auld', the first stone castle at Rothesay was a circular shell keep 142ft in diameter with walls 30ft high and 9ft thick; four projecting

Set at the mouth of the River Conway, or Conwy, this mediaeval walled town with its famous castle, one of Edward I's 'iron ring' around Wales, is still remarkably self-contained.

Originally the first of the Cinque Ports, its Saxon harbour had silted up by the late 14th century, ending its role as the chief place of embarkation for the Continent and as England's premier naval

Dedicated to the local saint, and often called 'the Cathedral of the Weald', it was built of local yellow sandstone in the mid 15th century, and was restored during the 19th century.

The 252 ft spire of St Mary Magdalen towers over the Market Place.

A cart horse of Dickens & Co, brewers and wine and spirits merchants, waits patiently between trips. Lighter loads were taken around town by handcart.

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilder's Southwick yard in 1989.

It was the opening of James Nasmyth's engineering works that led to the growth of Eccles and Patricroft.

Dedicated to the local saint, and often called 'the Cathedral of the Weald', it was built of local yellow sandstone in the mid 15th century, and was restored during the 19th century.

At this major junction of Cheam Road, Carshalton Road and the steep High Street, the splendid and ornate sign of the Cock Hotel with the Courage Brewery rooster mounted above sits in the centre.

Eastbourne owes its development to the 7th Duke of Devonshire: after the railway arrived in 1849, he enthusiastically developed his estates here into a huge resort, with nearly three miles of seafront

The provision of the public gardens of the Promenade at Bowness also followed the coming of the railway in 1847, and the increased popularity of the Lake District as a health-giving holiday resort for

The wooded estate of Mount Edgecumbe is the hereditary seat of the Earls of Mount Edgecumbe.

This view of the overhanging, topmost rocks of the Black Rocks shows some of the many examples of graffiti, some of which is Victorian, which deface the gritstone boulders in the foreground

The abbey is set at the end of a narrow, winding lane a mile out of Richmond, and sits comfortably in the peaceful valley of the River Swale.

Since it was gradually absorbed to become a suburb of Royal Tunbridge Wells, this small village south of Tonbridge supported a number of businesses in its commercial centre.

Behind the thatched building are some of the fine trees of the park. The north-east quarter of Overstone Park is heavily wooded.