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This expansion is reflected in a number of the streets named for famous men of that time - for example Lord Palmerston, the Duke of Wellington and Prince Albert are all remembered in this way.

In the 1950s, most of Sidford's cottages were owned by villagers who worked locally. Today's residents are more likely to commute to Sidmouth or Exeter.

Knighton is now part of the sprawling village of Wembury which acts as a dormitory for Plymouth, but before 20th-century development it was part of a thriving farming community with many horses.

Despite modern development, Westbourne, to the west of Bournemouth, retains its village atmosphere. Spacious houses and hotels are situated around a dramatic woodland chine leading down to the sea.

This valley community became the focus of a nation's grief when in 1966 Pontglas School and a row of adjacent houses were buried under a sliding coal tip.

Before the establishment of county police forces in the 1840s, parish constables had to punish offenders. They could either be placed in the stocks for a period of time, or whipped.

At the opposite end of the High Street from Town Bridge, John Bunyan's staue complements that of John Howard in the Market Place.

Legend relates that it was close to here that the Saxon warlord Cerdic landed to begin the Saxon invasion of southern England, only to be thwarted by the British war-leader Arthur.

The hotel is on the site of the medieval monastery of Weybridge, a small house of canons providing hospitality for travellers between Great Yarmouth and Norwich, both by road and by river.

The lawn of a country house sweeps down to the water; a pile of mown grass can be seen on the right.

Holidaymakers are boating on the southern reaches of Windermere near Newby Bridge. Boating is still a popular pastime on Windermere, which is England's largest lake.

'Pier now open', says one of the notices - 1904 was the year the general public could tread the boards of Weston's second pier.

Sherborne Lane is shown here when the Crown and Anchor, the large building at the foot of the hill, was still open.

Now the centre of a hectic one-way traffic system, Grasmere's parish church of St Oswald is perhaps best known for being the last resting place of the poet William Wordsworth, who is buried there alongside

Just south of Penrith, Mayburgh Henge is a circular bank of earth and stones of about 1.5 acres, with one 10ft stone at the centre. It is thought to have been built between 1000BC–2000BC.

This little lad demonstrates the ingenuity of a stile which maintains the integrity of the field boundary without the need for steps over the fence. Simply push the three rails down, and step over!

All parts could be reached from this corner, and its popular name of Castle Junction had become fixed. The 114 cars and 1,000 horses were the property of the Belfast Street Tramway Company.

Brading's Bull Ring is a legacy of the barbaric tradition of bull-baiting, where a tethered animal would be attacked by a succession of dogs.

A perfect natural harbour, Lulworth Cove has been hollowed out by the swirling waters of the English Channel into its present almost circular form, creating one of the most distinctive bays on

The parish church of St Patrick, in the background, is only one of ten in England dedicated to Ireland's patron saint.

This fine skyline view of Edwardian Bournemouth, with its wealth of splendid church buildings, is a testimony to the endeavours of Bournemouth's first vicar and his son Alexander Sykes Bennett, who

On the left are the Abbey fields, at the end of which stands the late 13th-century church of St Nicholas. Nearby are the ruins of Kenilworth Abbey, founded and endowed by Geoffrey de Clinton in 1122.

The Porthminster Hotel, overlooking Porthminster Beach, was opened in 1894 to accommodate the increasing number of visitors arriving in St Ives since the opening of the railway.

The last piece of the jigsaw that was to complete the picture of Hull's docks arrived just before the First World War with the opening of the first dock in the country to use electric power throughout