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Just off the Fosse Way, this village, once the site of a Roman settlement, clusters around the banks of the wide, shallow Windrush, which is crossed by a number of simple footbridges, some

A ground floor view of the Long Room showing the flanking busts of scholars. Famous students of Trinity include Oliver Goldsmith, Jonathan Swift, Edmund Burke, Oscar Wilde and Samuel Becket.

Because of the unstable nature of the cliffs above Bournemouth's beaches, many of the buildings were built at a distance from the cliff edge.

Pitsea lies to the north of Bowers Marshes.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe

We can see a mixture of residential and commercial premises here.

A variety of impressive cars have parked, possibly marking the advent of day trippers, which Ogilvie did not really want.

On a steep hillside commanding views of the Weald, north-west of Ashford, this charming village was near the seat of the Dering family at the now-vanished Surrenden Dering a mile away.

At the turn of the century, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.

The island of Iona, near Mull off the west coast of Scotland, is known as the cradle of Scottish Christianity or 'The Mecca of Gael'. St Columba built his monastery here in AD563.

Stonemasons and glaziers from France and Italy built St Wilfred's first stone church on this site in 672. Reconstruction began in 1069, followed by the building we see today from 1180.

By the end of the Victorian period the scale of amenities offered by larger boarding houses, such as the Eardley Boarding Establishment at Splash Point, often overlapped with those of newly erected

Not part of the University, Westminster College is one of several theological colleges in Cambridge; this one is the college of the Presbyterian Church of England.

RECORDS of a harbour in Margate go back to the 14th century, when it appears to have been a small wooden structure sheltering the local fishing vessels.

Shown here, just past the Congregational Church, is the lower part of the ­cultivated gardens of the Convalescent Hospital.

The ruins of Bungay date from the reign of Edward I, but there was once an earlier castle on the site which had been owned by Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk.

The house, which was at one time the largest building in the north of England, was built by Sir Nicolas Sherburn (Shirburn) around 1690.The estate was left to a cousin (named Weld) who gave it to the

The Village 1903 Just off the road between Lyminge and Hythe, this jettied timber-frame cottage stands at the approach to the 13th-century church.

London Road, as the name implies, was the turnpike from London; it climbs up to the Wheat Sheaf, one of several coaching inns in Daventry.

Situated on a rocky site at the entrance to the Sound of Mull, the Maclean fortress of Duart dates from the 13th century with 16th- and 17th-century additions.

Often referred to as 'the Alpine village' because of its sylvan setting at the head of a wooded valley, the cluster of houses known as Hutton Village dates from the mid 19th century, when Mr Thomas

As we see here, the large stone gateposts were left standing for a number of years before being removed to give the area in front of the church a more open look.

This was once the seat of the Fitzalans, hereditary High Stewards of Scotland.

The father-in-law of Squire Clifton, Lord Lowther, and also Lady Cecily Lowther, were remembered in the naming of Lowther Gardens. This ornamental pond was a transformation of the farm pond.