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Timber had always been one of Preston's main imports.

This is an austere, almost threatening building, in an English Palazzo style, hardly the imagined face of the friendly local 'Bobby'.

Said to have been founded by the Spanish Ambassador's valet, the 18th-century pub, with its adjacent toll house, formed the entrance to the Bishop of London's Hornsey estate.

One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.

In 1908 this view was possible, but Lea Hill is now too tree-covered.

In 1424 James returned to Scotland after spending eighteen years as the 'guest' of the English court. He was also angry; angry that Robert Stewart had done precious little to secure his freedom.

'When the evening sun falls over St Davids Cathedral, gilding the old stone, shining on the gentle green hills, the white twisting roads and the little farms, the smallest “city” in the kingdom lies lost

An ancient village recorded in the Domesday Book as Penictune, it has a stream flowing through it like Downham has, and it also lies at the foot of Pendle Hill.

This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.

High on the hill are the abbey ruins and over to the left, the lovely Norman church of St Mary. The church is reached by a climb of 199 steps that leaves the fittest visitor beathless.

Just past the Stepping Stones public house is one of the roads leading to Polesden Lacy.

This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).

With the last significant addition to the Esplanade being the Italian Gardens of the 1920s, only the cars (far right) betray this photograph's modernity.

High on the hill are the abbey ruins and over to the left, the lovely Norman church of St Mary. The church is reached by a climb of 199 steps that leaves the fittest visitor beathless.

Today the wooden gates are gone, and so is the fountain in the road, erected by the Hender family in memory of their son Leonard, who drowned near Land's End in 1894.

The gentleman proudly escorts three elegant ladies dressed in white; other people further back are intrigued by the crab boats, which were probably made by Leonard Lown or his son Henry.

They take place around the Palladian-style market cross which is in the centre of five main roads.

A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border. At the top of the hill is the mainly 14th-century church of the Holy Trinity.

The Drill Hall (left), which was then the HQ of the 4th Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, has recently had a complete restoration; it reopened on 20 March 2004 to resume its place in the entertainment

Originally called Dunstable Street, there is no available record of the reason for the change of name apart from the coincidence of the accession to the throne of King George V.

The Drill Hall (left), which was then the HQ of the 4th Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, has recently had a complete restoration; it reopened on 20 March 2004 to resume its place in the entertainment

Up here is Bentley Priory, remodelled by Sir John Soane in the late 18th century, where Queen Adelaide died in 1849; here, too, is Stanmore Hall, a remarkable ragstone building which until a great conflagration

view is looking from Peveril Point to the Clock Tower (centre), showing its original spire, which was replaced by a cupola in 1904 after fundamentalist Christian protests that spires only belong on

The bottom of the church steeple is higher than the roof of the parsonage, just visible in the trees.