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This is a spectacular view from the top of Portland, with the expanse of the Chesil Bank on the left, stretching 16 miles along the Dorset coast to Barton Cliff, and the broad expanse of Portland Harbour

During the Civil War, Newnham, like many Royalist garrisons surrounding Gloucester, was on the receiving end of a raid mounted by Colonel Edward Massey's forces.

Shefford is a corruption of Sheep Ford - possibly the title bestowed by herders as they moved their flocks across the River Ivel at this point to stay ahead of Danish invaders.

A short stroll from the toll bridge brings you to the little church of St Mary's. Above the altar hangs an impressive picture of the Last Supper.

On the left is the garden of Holly Lodge, the home of the Roman Catholic priest father Henry Aust-Lawrence, which was itself to be used as a place of worship in the period 1912-1915.

These thatched cottages are on either side of the road to Brent Pelham at the eastern, outer reaches of Anstey.

This is an Edwardian building, but there has been a house of this name here since at least the 18th century.

St George's was one of three churches built in Sheffield between 1825 and 1830 that were originally district chapels belonging to the parish church of St Paul's.

Northleach was once one of the most prosperous wool towns of the Cotswolds in the 15th century, and an important cross-roads of the Fosse Way and the London-Cheltenham roads.

Rows of stone cottages surround the Cross in Geddington village centre, built in 1294 to commemorate Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I.

This atmospheric photograph of the Medina at Newport gives some idea of the harbour at the height of its pros- perity.

Built on the site of a palace of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the present house dates from 1728.

Chideock, always pronounced without the 'e', is set in a landscape of ancient ridgeways and rolling hills.

In summer months there is an atmosphere of palpable excitement here, as an endless stream of people winds its way down the hill into the heart of the town, turning at the old granite church of St Ia into

Between 1921 and 1951 the population of Lancing nearly quadrupled, resulting in a rapid increase in the number of shops, businesses and houses in South Lancing.

The Revolution House, formerly the Cock and Pynot (or Magpie) Inn, at Old Whittington, north of Chesterfield, was the scene of the hatching of the plot for the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which aimed

The independent parish of Dinnington almost cuts the parish of Laughton-en-le-Morthen in two.

The new-found cleanliness following the demise of the tin plate industry can be clearly seen here.

The smooth slopes of 3,054-ft Skiddaw dominates the northern Lakeland town of Keswick in this view from Castle Head.

The high altar was designed by Pugin and manufactured in Dublin at a cost of £700; it was of Gothic design and made of Caen stone, richly carved. It was given by James Lomax of Clayton Hall.

Enlargement of the photograph reveals the signboards with the various Sunday papers vying for your custom with such enticing lures as 'The world of the formerly married', 'Ulysses – the inside

The changing face of the Swan Hotel is displayed in the next sequence of photographs. The Town Hall was designed in 1855 by the Bath architect Thomas Fuller – he later emigrated to Canada.

'The Prisoner of Zenda' was showing at the Regal Cinema in the elegant North Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate when this picture was taken.

Here we see the entrance to the charming little village of Wass, which lies in a shallow valley under the wooded southern escarpment of the Hambleton Hills, seen in the background.