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Henley is a fine example of a medieval settlement developing in linear fashion along a highway, as this photograph demonstrates - though it tells only part of the story, for the High Street

For centuries, Stoneleigh was home to the dozens of estate workers employed by the Leighs.

This view shows the approach to the village from the south, with the open space of Ellerthwaite Square having no shortage of motor traffic even at this early time, including an omnibus (right).

This is one of the unmade roads to the west of Rectory Road—perhaps Hillcrest Chase or Rectory Park Drive. St Michael's church looms in the background.

These days Hopes Green is simply a westward extension of South Benfleet, but it started life as a hamlet of fishermen's cottages.

The gallery contains Lord Leverhulme's world-famous collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings and Wedgwood pottery.

This view looks north along the A15 towards the church of St Guthlac and Bourne.

When this photograph was taken, the government must have just raised the prices of tobacco products or alcohol (probably both!) in a recent budget.

Bedale is also just off the A1 and on the route into Wensleydale from Leeming Bar.

'See no trains are approaching before you attempt to cross the line' is the wise advice of the sign on the left of the level crossing at Grosmont, on the former Pickering-Whitby line.

The Mansion dates from the late 17th century and has variously served as a private house, a school and as the headquarters of an Anglican order of monks, the Community of the Glorious Ascension

Cars parked down the centre of the High Street occupy the site of the historic outdoor town market, which still operates today and makes this area a very busy place on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The last days of the corner of Sankey Street and Horsemarket Street are approaching.

The doors and windows have been altered on the next pair of cottages, whilst the white Rosemary Cottage and the brick gable end beyond remain unchanged.

In the early 1870s, the Duke of Cleveland's estate near to the town centre was given over to development.

Standing just one mile east of Chester-le-Street, Lumley Castle dates from the late 14th century, when Sir Robert Lumley was granted two licences to crenellate.

Atherstone is one of only two places where the game of Shrovetide football is played; the other is Ashbourne in Derbyshire. In 1846 the game was finally banned from the streets of Derby.

The Roman town of Aquae Sulis had as its focus the hot spring-fed baths, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures.

On each side of the bandstand are stone canopies protecting marble vases. The inscription tells us they were the gift of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805 to his Empress, Josephine.

This view of the then new dual carriageway section of the A367 Radstock road, Wells Way, as it drops down from Odd Down towards the city, seems a curious subject for a photograph, but in those far-off

Madingley is a typical example of an estate village which was remodelled in order to improve the view from the landlord's mansion.

Two bridges and a ford cross the stream that flows past the Blue Anchor Inn, which stands at the centre of the village.

John Blackmore was rector of St Mary the Virgin, and it was here that his grand- son Richard set the scene for the tragic marriage ceremony of Lorna Doone to John Ridd in his famous novel

The Victoria Cottage Hospital was opened in Pettits Lane in 1888 on a plot of land donated by Mr W Mashiter.