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Of the great Benedictine Abbey of St Mary in Abingdon little survives above ground.

This chapel takes its name from Dr David Lewis, the son of a vicar of Abergavenny, who became the first principal of Jesus College, Oxford. His tomb is on the left.

The bustling holiday town of Largs has long been famous as the site of a battle in 1263 between the Norwegians and the Scots.

Long a centre of iron and steel making, using the iron-rich local limestone, Corby already had a vast 1930s steelworks and a population of about 15,000 swamping the original small village when it was designated

Built in 1856, the church has the crossed keys of St Peter below the east window. Behind the church are the hospital of 1826 and the birthplace of the Victorian novelist Ouida (1839-1907).

This interesting scene at the top of the principal highway through Helston shows the granite classical-style Guildhall of 1839 behind the covered delivery wagon.

The delivery boy with his basket, lounging against a pillar of the Harbour Office, seems to have adopted a far more natural pose than that of the lad nearest to him or the stiffly standing

Situated on the south-west side of the village, the church was heavily restored by Frederick Peck of Maidstone in 1872.

West Bradford gets its name from being west of the broad, shallow ford of the River Ribble.

In the years immediately prior to the Great War, a number of British car manufacturers got round the problem of the poor state of most of the country's roads by offering 'colonial' versions of

Worth village stands in the Forest of Worth, east of Crawley, and was a place of pilgrimage.

This photograph shows the old village centre, looking from the Roman Catholic church of St Mary of the Angels. Carnforth Co-operative Society looked after the villagers' grocery needs.

This view was taken from the churchyard of ruined St Andrew's Church below the sycamore trees of Pennsylvania Castle grounds.

Tintagel is a 'must' on every tourist's itinerary, and the main street is full of hotels, guest houses and souvenir shops, many developed since writers such as Tennyson romanticised the legend of King

Situated at what is now the southern end of this expanded village, the church with its elegant recessed spire dates for the greater part from the earlier 15th century.

Close to the Musgrave Monument is the George Hotel whose substantial premises still occupy most of the buildings on the left hand side of this view.

The large building on the right is the HQ of the former Barry Rowing Club, which was one of the oldest sporting clubs in Barry.

We are looking in the opposite direction to S51047 towards Albion Terrace, with the Queen Hotel and the Primitive Methodist church just visible on the left-hand side of the street.

The pinnacles of the parish church in the background overlook the covered stalls of Rawmarsh Market. Rawmarsh is a former colliery town north of Rotherham in South Yorkshire.

Impressive as this memorial to Viscount Leverhulme is, it should not be forgotten that there is another, and a very live one, on the Western Isles.

A thousand years ago, Fareham was a patchwork of ancient woodland, heathland, some cultivated fields, a harbour and a river.

The village in which John Bunyan once lived has almost become a place of pilgrimage.

In the 1920s the future looked very bright for Loughborough, but the Depression of the 1930s came as a cruel blow to the town.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.