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Just beyond the green is the 12th-century church of St Michael, with its Norman tower and font.

Gatwick remains in Sussex, but Horley north of the River Mole was returned to Surrey. However, this brief selection of views of Horley are included in this book.

Although it is ten miles from the sea on what is now an artificial River Nene, Wisbech maintains its long tradition as a sea port.

On the A52 between Nottingham and Grantham, Bottesford is the most northerly settlement in the county.

Kilby is a Scandinavian form of the Old English 'cilda-tun'; the first part means 'child', or more probably 'young nobleman'.

This passageway, which now runs from St Mary's Street down into the car park beside the meadows, formed one of a tight network of passages and closes which provided cramped tenement accommodation in this

We can see the porch attached to the west tower, and also the good proportions of the building. Inside, the wide three-bay nave is tall and light with thin piers.

Ardingly is a village overlooking the Ouse valley, north of Haywards Heath. The 14th-century church of St Peter has an impressive tower. Ardingly College, situated nearby, is a notable Public School.

It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tailpole. The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron.

In August 1543 two treaties were ratified at Holyrood for the marriage of the infant Queen Mary to Henry VIII's son Edward.

Originally designed in 1767 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Earl of Bute, this unique country house was reconstructed in 1843 after a fire in which little of the original building was left untouched.

The crews of the fishing boats prepare to hoist sail once they have cleared Hartlepool.

Shortly before this photograph was taken, the Town Council approved an expenditure of £850 to be paid to Frederick Pomeroy RA for the design and execution of a statue of the Lord Protector

The original lower height of the chancel roof can easily be seen, but otherwise, the interior is very similar to today`s church.

Bell Street, part of the original town of Sawbridgeworth, runs from London road eastwards towards the church and the school.

In the mid to late 1950s, this pattern of school building was springing up everywhere.

Moreton Hall, Whalley lies just over the boundary from Great Harwood at the other side of the valley of the Calder.

Here and above we see contrasting aspects of one of the town's most important thoroughfares: a quiet residential section overlooked by the comforting bulk of the Town Hall, and the busy shopping

When he died in 1653, Humphrey Chetham had already started the work of educating the 'sons of honest, industrious and painful parents'.

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.

Originally designed in 1767 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Earl of Bute, this unique counrty house was reconstructed in 1843 after a fire in which little of the original building was left untouched.

The castle, re-built in stone from 1189 by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, keeps a broody watch on the town - as it has always done. Henry Tudor, the future King Henry VII, was born here in 1457.

Silver Street is typical of the narrow winding streets that lead to the focal point of the city, the Market Square.

The village nestles at the foot of Ingleborough, one of the famous Three Peaks, but it was the waterfalls walk that brought town dwellers to the area.