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The first known reference to the chapel was found in a document of 1552, though the original structure probably dated back to the 14th century.

This illustrious and sublime town is on the east bank of the River Ouse, two miles from the Wash.

The Butter Market of 1853 (centre) is now Achurch Hardware Store, and the snack bar next door is now a pizza and kebab house.

Photographs taken before 1965 reveal it to have been a truly magnificent structure; documentary records indicate that it was built about 1600, though its predecessors can be tracked back as far as 1460

Just above the horse's back is the narrow entrance to Cheyne Lane (S177062, page 24).

Its first house, Green Bank, is bigger than the rest and has a bay window, being built for a mill manager or the owner of the row.

Second left is the Pilot Boat Inn, where the publican's dog, Lassie, licked back to life one of the sailors from the battleship HMS 'Formidable' on 1 January 1915.

Horley is now firmly back in Surrey, but for some years prior to 1974 it, along with Gatwick Airport, was within Sussex.

The hotel façade has not changed, but Boots have moved further along the High Street and the Halifax Bank has replaced Boots.

It is the wealth created by the years of shipping which has given Wisbech two of the most perfect Georgian streets in England - the Brinks on the banks of the River Nene.

Here the photographer looks across the back of the Victorian elementary school and schoolmaster's house at the left of the hay ricks.

The biggest docks were the Royal group east of Canning Town on the north bank of the Thames. The Royal Victoria Dock opened in 1855, enclosing 94 acres of water.

The Red Lion dated back to at least 1792, when it was called Blackwater. It originally faced onto the lower part of Blackwater Street, which later became Lord Street.

Unlike Staines on the north bank, the river plays no part in Egham's townscape. This view looks east along the High Street.

Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back.

Built on slightly higher land away from the river, it turns its back on it, and this view looks north-west along the High Street to the Church Street crossroads.

On the right is the elegant Georgian frontage of Lloyd's Bank, complete with a fanlight over the door and a decorated gable at the roofline.

Photographs taken before 1965 reveal it to have been a truly magnificent structure; documentary records indicate that it was built about 1600, though its predecessors can be tracked back as

The mill, on the south bank of the Great Ouse, later became a hosiery factory, and has now been converted into a prestige housing complex.

Once the Settle to Carlisle railway had opened, which ran to the east of Ingleton, Victorian entrepreneurs laid out the 4-mile walk along the banks of the River Twiss towards Pecca Falls, Hollybush

The projecting section of promenade shown in both photographs is known as the Donkey Stand, because it was possible to take donkey rides along the sands from here as far as South Slip and back.

Records of the existence of this street go back at least to the 15th century and it is known to have been used by travellers and pilgrims on their way to the Abbey.

By AD410, all remaining troops were withdrawn as the Romans trudged back to deal with unrest in their homelands. Many artefacts have been since found within the site of the fort.

The porch to the church dates back to Norman times (13th century), the aisle from the 14th and the tower from the 15th century.