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The Cross Public House, according to its sign established in 1652, almost certainly took its name from its position on the crossroads.

were used as the site for Orleans Park Secondary School in the 1970s, and all that now remains of the once celebrated landscape is a small garden next to the Octagon Gallery where the original house

Smartened up, with its brickwork painted, the mill is now a house. It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the Bure from the village street. Here are handsome pantile-roofed red-brick houses. A rotted hulk squats in a narrow inlet.

The old village, which consisted of about eighteen houses, lay to the south-west of Belsay Castle - or rather it did until the early 19th century, when Sir Charles Monck had it demolished and moved to

It closed in the 1970s and is now a private house.

The building is on the site of previous houses owned by the Rishton family; Dunkenhalgh then passed to the Walmsleys, until Catherine Walmsley married Robert the seventh Lord Petre.

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

A handsome brick building houses the post office and store in this tiny hamlet. Smokers had not become the social outcasts of today, as the Players sign affirms.

This picture shows the east front of the house.

The photographer has managed to capture someone either entering or leaving his or her house. A few seconds either way, and the photograph would have had a person in it to add a touch more interest!

In addition to the topiary garden, this fine medieval house has a 15th-century barn on the estate.

Both the Congregational Church and the houses next to it on the left were demolished in the 1970s to make way for the town's Magistrates Court.

What is thought to be the oldest inhabited house in Cheshire is also near Alderley Edge: the stone-built portion of Chorley Hall is thought to date from about 1330, the remainder being Elizabethan.

The Doric pediment above the doorway of the house to the right reminds us of our links with classical Greece.

This tower mill still stands, though it is now a private house and has lost its sails.

The abbey was founded by the Premonstraterians; they were an order noted for preferring secluded areas, both for building their religious houses and for rearing their sheep.

This view now would include houses on the field and the school area. St John's church is in the background.

By the end of the 17th century it had been rapidly developed by the building of shops, taverns, hotels and houses as the town flourished as a fashionable spa resort.

In later years the building was converted to a private house.

Originally the site of a Roman villa in the 1st or 2nd century AD, and on Ermine Street, this outlying hamlet has gradually been absorbed into expanding Gloucester; many of its older houses have been

The quay has been straightened and raised, but the houses behind are substantially unchanged. Inevitably, the type of boat that ties up today has also changed somewhat.

The cottage pictured here has now gone, to be replaced by a brick house which was only built in 2001.

On the left is Bleak House, now castellated, and on the right the pier and little harbour. Broadstairs retains its Dickens association with its annual Dickens Festival.