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This well-known holiday resort, which has an excellent sandy beach, stands on the west coast of Wales at the mouth of the Mawddach estuary. Both Darwin and Ruskin enjoyed stays here.

This quiet road is built over an earlier byway bordering the extensive area of common land that was enclosed, drained and extensively farmed from the 17th century.

Begun during the reign of King John and finally completed in 1472, York Minster stands on a site previously occupied by the Roman praetorium and by Saxon churches; the earliest of these was a small wattle

The eclectic mix of architectural styles, ranging from the thatched roof of the single-storey old post office and the slab-fronted agricultural dwelling next to it, to the generously featured

It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.The larger machines ran down into the water on rails and consisted of a number of cubicles.

Overlooking the Clyde to the north of the present town of Bothwell, the castle is still an impressive sight despite being a ruin.

This quiet road is built over an earlier byway bordering the extensive area of common land that was enclosed, drained and extensively farmed from the 17th century.

Rye, set on its sandstone isle rising from the flat fen of Romney Marsh, still presents something of a medieval picture, dominated by the great church of St Mary.

Although there is no evidence of habitation here before the 17th century, this windswept north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey has since enjoyed a measure of success as a seaside resort as a result

The village of Easington lies just to the east of Loftus.

It was Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln and lord of the manor, who replaced the original Norman timber fortress with one of stone, employing Ranulph of Durham to build the gatehouse; Newark thus became one

The production of steel was reaching the end of its competitive life by the time of this photograph, and within a couple of decades the industry was to be transformed - and greatly reduced.

The White Lion, one of many public houses in the village, was called the Rose and Crown in 1766, when it formed part of a marriage settlement between Mary Field and John Smith of Hitchin.

' and the failure of the new 'City of Rome' to live up to expectations.

This is all that remains of the magnificent west front of the Abbey, now reduced in height and stripped of its facing stone.

The ancient church of St Helen, known as 'the cathedral of the Fylde', dates from the 12th century and was once the parish church for Garstang, two miles away.

North of the Palace of Westminster, Whitehall heads north towards Trafalgar Square.

Great Easton lies in the south-east corner of the county, to the south of Eye Brook Reservoir, and to the north of industrial Corby, on the very edge of the Welland Valley.

Although a church dedicated to St Elphin is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, there had probably been a place of worship here from the 7th century.

At Hoveton there is a full mile of shimmering open water which is thronged with pleasure craft in the summer months. The capital of the Broads is Wroxham which is just across the bridge.

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

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

Here we see the remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey of St Agatha.

Though built of quality stone, the Town Hall, designed by Reginald Edmunds in the 1930s, has little in the way of decoration; in that respect it is eclipsed by the ornate clock tower erected to the memory