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The building on the left is a 16th-century house with a central hall, two cross wings and a later addition at the far end.

Because of its history of divided land ownership, it is difficult to determine the real centre of Mobberley village, but each nucleus has at least one inn.

The building with the tall chimney stacks dates from the late 19th century; it was the Maternity Hospital and nursing home until the hospital moved to Burton Hill in 1925.

We can see the entrance to the Switchback Railway (which arrived in Barry in 1887) on the left, with cloakrooms and toilets on the right.

It sits opposite the church, and was once the vicarage. It has also been known as the Red House. Today it is home to a branch of the National Westminster Bank.

St Mary's Church is one of the finest churches in Cheshire, and serves a community that was, at one time, more important than nearby Nantwich.

Built in the 18th century, the Rowton Hall Country House Hotel and Health Club, as it is now called, stands at the southern edge of the city of Chester.

Ashby Road becomes the High Street at the crossroads (centre); to the left is Packington Hill, and to the right Broadhill Road.

From the end of the pier Ramsgate looks very well indeed.

The Bradford Exhibition of 1904 stimulated the laying-out of this former country estate.

John Wing's 1811 bridge replaced a medieval one built or rebuilt soon after 1224; the builders probably used stone from the demolished castle, which was destroyed or 'slighted' after a punishing siege

This is part of the marvellous system which comprised the Grand Junction or Union Canal, linking the Thames with the Midland canal system, and providing a direct waterway link between London and Birmingham

This new viaduct across the Tamar has just been opened, linking Plymouth to the district around Gunnislake and Callington.

The Pleasure Gardens with their scented pines and attractively laid out grounds were popular with people of all ages, at a time when fashion and social mores decreed that the human form should remain

According to Nikolaus Pevsner, the original design was spoilt by the addition of an arched window to the west of the Venetian windows, and the small west tower.

Market Harborough's tribute to the fallen occupies pride of place in The Square, originally called the Sheep Market, which lies at the southern end of the market place.

This view of Cottesmore is typical of Rutland's visual feast of limestone and ironstone villages, set in a rolling, spired landscape of hedges and walls which the hunt can, in the main, take in its stride

There is a room on the first floor, reached by a stair and guarded by a portcullis, which suggests that this was a defensive position for use when the Scots came on one of their cattle raids.

A steep lane climbs up round the edge of the castle. This picture gives us an idea of the impressive appearance of the 12th-century keep.

There is a room on the first floor, reached by a stair and guarded by a portcullis, which suggests that this was a defensive position for use when the Scots came on one of their cattle raids.

Gardens slope down to the river, and thick canopies of trees at the water's edge keep the wind from the sails of boats.

Amidst the Cowholm marshes are the scanty ruins of St Benet's Abbey, founded by Canute.

Situated at the southernmost end of the Isle of Thanet, the bay is bounded by cliffs on the north, and by marshes to the south.

Spilling down from the Yorkshire Dales, the Ribble streams under the lovely old bridge at Settle and through the valley that has taken its name.