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The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

This view looks south to the old Town Hall, the building in the centre in the distance. The street is thronged with farmers and their families.

Crickhowell Castle lies 12 miles south-east of Brecon. The original stronghold was a timber motte and bailey, and belonged to the de Turberville family.

In South Street, Shodfriars Hall is an echo of the four friaries established in the medieval town.

The river to the east of the church has been widened and landscaped, and bridges built to the north and south of the Churchyard.

Looking south just outside the centre of St Austell we see one of I K Brunel's timber viaducts on stone piers built in 1858 for the new Cornwall Railway.

This is taken from the north end of the Green, looking south towards Hall Street, showing the wide expanse of the Green, where fairs are still held.

Situated 4.5 miles south of Birmingham, Bournville was chosen by George Cadbury in 1879 as the site for his new factory and for a model village for his workers.

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre

Lancaster is on the edge of the Lake District, and an important point on routes both north and south.

The south face was undergoing repair work at this time. Pollution, mainly from the smoke from the railways, did a lot of damage to both glass and stone.

Now merged with Dorking, North Holmwood is one of three small villages along the west side of the large and mostly wooded Holmwood Common - the other two villages are Mid Holmwood and South

Some parts of the south-east wing go back to the 14th century, and the clock over the entrance has been marking the passing of time for about 350 years.

The main line railway station is to the south of the village centre.

We are looking south-eastwards from the carriageway; the next-door neighbours are St Anne's at No 6 (left) and Shamien House at No 8 (right).

The direction is south-east, and municipal buildings occupy the centre ground. Centre left is the combined police and fire station in Tower Street, referred to earlier. Note the six-storey tower.

On the top floor the south-east wing contains the long gallery; below it are what are now called the Regency rooms.

As we look south down High Street we can see that many of the buildings survive today, including the dormered building on the far left.

This well-preserved village, built around the old Wadworth Hall, lies just south of Doncaster.

This picture looks down the village of Wales towards Kiveton Park, both pit villages which boomed from 1867 during the heyday of the South Yorkshire coalfield.

This view looks south-west along the High Street. Beyond Crispin Hall, most of the houses and shops date from the Clark era, with the occasional much lower earlier cottages interspersed.

The Clarks were philanthropic Quakers, and William provided this splendid institute, The Crispin Hall, named after St Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, further south-west along the High Street

Yeovil is by far the largest town in south Somerset.

South of the town, beyond the stock market, the Bridgwater Road crosses the River Brue, here canalised.