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We are at the heart of the city centre, and this is now all pedestrianised. The Albany Hotel, dating from the late 1870s, was originally a Temperance establishment.

Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.

Picturesquely perched on top of its steep knoll and surrounded by a sea of 20th- century housing, the church of St Nicholas, Laindon, possibly dates from the 12th century.

THE only safe anchorage on the inhospitable, craggy coastline between Appledore and Boscastle, Clovelly lived precariously for centuries from the herring fishery.

In 2003, a new planning row broke out over plans by Richmond College, the local tertiary college (which is actually in Twickenham) to fund expansion plans by selling off part of their site in Crane

A collection of pleasure craft are tied up on one of the river's many backwaters. Windsor racecourse is close by here.

Daniel Defoe lived in a cottage that was once part of this fine old inn. It is said that he wrote 'Robinson?Crusoe' in a back-room above the wash-house.

The imposing red sandstone ruins of the keep of Brougham Castle watch over the River Eamont. Brougham Castle was originally built by the Normans, and was strengthened by Henry II in 1170.

The survival of the green helps Tettenhall retain just a hint of its village character, though it is very much part of Wolverhampton now.

We are looking north-west, with St Mary's left of centre. The row of houses on this side of the Common vary from the 14th to the 19th century.

The coming of the railway put Helensburgh into the Glasgow commuter belt, whilst its steamer connections helped it develop as a holiday centre.

In the year of Queen Victoria's passing, these fashionably-clad Edwardians take the air along the mile-long greensward of The Leas on top of the cliff, and against the backdrop of these smart Victorian

This restricted the number of trams able to operate at any given time, and one of the measures taken to prevent the system from overloading was the introduction of a flat rate fare of 2d.

Here Parliament Street runs into the spacious thoroughfare of Whitehall which rushes onwards to join Trafalgar Square. On the extreme left is the diminutive gabled roof of the Horse Guards.

An alert pack of foxhounds of the local Vale of the White Horse Hunt are being exercised by their three handlers in readiness for the approaching hunting season.

The building high up on the left houses the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association of Great Britain, now one of the world's leading marine research organisations.

Looking west from Bathampton Down, past the villas of Bathwick across the northern half of the city, we can see how the formality of the ramrod-straight Great Pulteney Street to the left contrasts with

The entrance block of the theatre was formed from Beau Nash's first house in Bath, a pre-Wood era building of 1720 with heavy moulded window surrounds and cornices.

All Saints' church on the left is a wonderful example of how churches can continue to be houses of worship, while changing their role slightly to suit modern demands.

The South-west Gatehouse (left) stands on the site of the assassination of the 15-year- old Anglo-Saxon King Edward on the evening of 18 March 978.

The sale of livestock, including sheep, goats and pigs, took place here on market days up to the start of World War II.

Here Broadgate starts to climb out of the valley. Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

Here we see a quiet corner of Kenilworth.

To the east of Stane Street, and four miles north of Billingshurst, is the village of Slinfold.