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John Constable is known to have painted Malvern Hall at least three times - one of these paintings is now in Tate Britain.

This 15th-century slate-hung house is on the North Quay and was once the Guild House of Padstow's merchants.

A modest train of the old London & South Western puffs into Calstock station, having crossed the slender viaduct that bridges the glittering waters of the Tamar.

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

This beautiful Tudor mansion was built at the end of the reign of Henry VIII by the successful lawyer Sir John Hynde, partly from materials salvaged when they pulled down the church of St Etheldreda

A new public school opened at the western fringes of Cheltenham in 1886. It was named Dean Close in honour of Francis Close, sometime Bishop of Carlisle.

Budleigh Salterton stands to the west of the silted estuary of the River Otter. Its own beach is sandless and full of large pebbles, which seem to sing as the tides play across them.

In the 1930s Sidmouth acquired a reputation as an upmarket holiday resort, not so much for its sea-bathing as for the tranquillity of its setting and the mildness of its climate.

Britain's most important centre for the manufacture of broadcloth, this mill town sprawls across its wide valley, a huge piece of industrialisation in a wonderfully natural setting.

This building, which was part of Leeds University, was designed by T A Lodge and opened in 1951. Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

The building was named after William Fitzherbert, who was the great-grandson of William the Conqueror. At the turn of the 19th century, the building was used as tenements.

The west wing of the original old hall at Holker, home of the Preston family since the 16th century, was destroyed by fire in 1871.

This fascinating photograph shows an assortment of individuals all of whom appear to be mesmerised by the camera.

The Church of St John the Baptist, Baxenden was completed in 1877 as the population in that area increased. Christ Church had opened in 1840, and Baxenden was originally part of that parish.

The churchyard of St Peter`s parish church at Hope is filled with gravestones commemorating local families, such as the Eyres and the Woodruffes.

In the 1950s part of the bombed land around the cathedral was designated for open space to enhance the view of Christopher Wren's masterpiece.

Henry II's 12th-century keep at Castleton, seen here from Cave Dale with Lose Hill in the background, was an obvious sign of the Norman's dominance of the Peak District.

Barlborough was built by Francis Rodes, brother-in-law of the fourth Earl of Rutland and a member of a landed family who had been settled in Derbyshire for about two centuries.

An archetypal Pennine industrial landscape is presented in this view of Cornholme, in the deep valley of the River Calder between Burnley and Todmorden.

The stream here flows through the Vale of Mawgan from St Columb. A couple of miles inland is the Village of St Mawgan, from which the giant airbase takes its name.

A peaceful view of Frimley Lock, the last of the Deepcut locks flight, which total 14 in all. The Basingstoke canal of 1794 linked the Wey and Godalming Navigation (the River Wey) with Basingstoke.

The great Norman church is one of the most impressive in Europe and certainly the finest in Hampshire.

The detailing is borrowed from the eight blank panels in the Medici chapel in Florence; on these panels are carved the names of the town's dead of the First World War.

The total cost of the building was £7,465.