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The Natwest bank to its right is over-scaled 1930s Neo-Georgian, while to the left of the White Hart two buildings have recently also been replaced in pallid Neo-Georgian.

The banks of this river tower over most of the buildings in the village, such is the shrinkage of the local peat landscape.

The timbered buiding on the left, occupied at the time by Barclays Bank, was originally built with plastered upper walls and gabels, later exposed to give the building a mock Tudor flavour.

Parade House (right) was demolished in 1980 and sensitively rebuilt, with a slate hung front, as the NatWest bank.

In the week this photograph was taken, cinema-goers to the Glenroyal were enjoying 'The Day They Robbed the Bank of England'.The building is now a supermarket.

Parts of the building date back to the 12th century. The wooden pulpit is three hundred and fifty years old.

To the north-west lies Weyhill, famous for its large country fair dating back to the 13th century.

Although on a busy road junction in central London, the wards had rural views thanks to the extensive Brompton Cemetery at the back.

The church interior was restored in 1877, an event which caused the Reverend Sabine Baring Gould (of 'Onward Christian Soldiers' fame) to rush back from London to prevent his ancestors' memorials being

The pine-clad promontory of Friar's Crag near Keswick on Derwent Water is backed by the forested slopes of Walla Crag.

This is one of the three roads leading to the Market Place, shown at the far back of this view.

The memorial in St Giles dates back to 1841; it stands on an island in the road and was designed by George Gilbert Scott. Behind it is the Church of St Mary Magdalen.

The tour of some villages around Bath is now finished, and you can head back northwards to the city.

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.

Today the owners are fighting to upgrade the current track to get its Grand Prix status back again.

The railway station at the back of this picture is the reason for Dorridge's existence. Until the London to Birmingham railway was built in 1852, there was no Dorridge.

Westgate, dating back to the 14th century, provides access to the south-west corner of the old walled town.

Situated one and a half miles north of Blythe Bridge railway station in Staffordshire, Caverswall's history certainly goes back to at least 1275 when Walter de Caverswell was granted a licence to crenellate

The Church of England School dates back to Victorian times, and occupied a site at the top of St Neots Road until 1987, when it was transferred to its present location in Ivel Road.

In 1824, Lt Goldsmith and his crew managed to dislodge it, but the resulting outcry obliged him to hire tackle to lift it back.

Local fishermen could always earn their beer money after the fort had fired off a few practice shots by salvaging the cannon balls and selling them back to the army.

Sunbury-on-Thames was only incorporated into Surrey in the administrative changes which took place in 1965, but the village dates back to Anglo-Saxon times.

In spite of its name, the New Pond was dug back in the 14th century, and was once a popular bathing place.

Built of sandstone and dating back to Saxon times, although with a Norman nave and chancel, it still has a number of small pews for children installed in 1790 at the beginning of the Sunday School