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The photographer was standing below the high altar to take this view, which looks westwards the length of the quire and nave to the great west window.

Towards the north-west lies the mound of Beacon Hill. The earliest origins of Loughborough may be here.

This town was almost completely formed and defined by the production of coal.

The Bookhams and Fetcham retain old cores amid the great suburban expansion which occurred after World War II; they are in effect western suburbs of Leatherhead across the River Mole.

Egbert, King of Wessex, held his great council here in 838, and Athelstan and Ethelred the Unready were two of the Saxon kings of England crowned here in the 10th century.

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester and to the west of the busy A6.

Grazing ceased about 150 years ago, and generations of self-seeded saplings have since created mature woodland. It is one of only a handful of woods of this type in the West Midlands.

The green island has gone, and the terrace of three cottages on the left was rebuilt in the 1960s as a Nat West Bank.

Visible evidence of medieval Sultan is sparse, but remnants of the castle motte survive to the west of the parish church.

Sir Edwin Maufe's dignified and apt cathedral was only completed in 1966, with much of the work dating from the period spanned by this book.

We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called. Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.

Seen from the north-west bank of the River Trent, the castle appears foreshortened; but the wall in this view is that half of the east curtain wall that survived the 1650s demolition, with the gatehouse

King Henry I founded an Augustinian priory here in 1131, built a palace and established a new market town that rapidly became a place of considerable importance.

Looking across the Menai Straits to Anglesey, the city of Bangor is the largest town in the north-west corner of Wales, the former principality of Gwynedd, and home to an ancient diocese and the University

On the left, next to the Lloyd's Bank branch, is the fashion shop of Renee Shaw, with Fuller's tea shop, Dewhurst's the butcher's, and John's menswear shop further down the hill.

In the1920s Jesse Boot, founder of Boots the chemists, gave land to the west of Lenton, and University College moved here out of the city centre.

The trees and gate piers on the right have been replaced by a 1960s close of old people's bungalows, named St Andrew's Walk.

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul was attached to a nunnery founded by the abbot of Ramsey in c1006 and dissolved in 1537.

The remains of the old church lie to the west of the village. It was built in the 12th century with later additions and renovations, including the tower of around 1500.

The camera looks from the High Street towards Holly Hill, and on towards West Heath.

The present church is the nave of the priory; the chancel and transepts were demolished after the Dissolution of the Monasteries by the new owners, the Radcliffes.

This was built around 1905 on the site of the London and South West Bank, which in turn had replaced a Tudor farm house.

Frith's photographer has chosen the best bit of Bagshot to photograph: he is looking south-west along the High Street from its junction with Bridge Road towards the Square.

Its cabins were in keeping with the basic military hut- like look of so many institutions built during the First World War and afterwards.