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Home to Britain's oldest brewery, Shepherd Neame, this town sits near many fruit trees and hop fields.

It was purchased by Reuben Farley, who paid for its restoration and presented it to the town in 1898, together with four acres of land.

At first glimpse Bibury church, with its castellated roofline and square tower, looks largely 15th-century. On closer examination, however, the fabric's earlier origins become evident.

Herbert H Raphael's gift to the town of 20 acres of parkland and lake was given out of generosity, but he may also have been concerned that his envisaged development of the select Gidea Park Garden

Before the railway came in 1838 and today's town began to grow, this was the centre of Woking. Here it appears as though it is completely deserted with not a soul to be seen.

This view shows a working community—the town still thrives today.

Station Road was probably the first view of the town for most tourists, leading as it does from the railway to the sea front.

In his 'Topographical Collections' of 1659-70, John Aubrey wrote: 'Here is a strong and handsome bridge in the middest of which is a little chapell as at Bathe, for Masse'.

Outside the 19th-century cell block, where Conscientious Objectors were imprisoned in 1916, stands the Sebastopol cannon, long since gone, brought to the town in 1858 and accompanied on its journey

The viaduct which carries the main Sheffield-Leeds railway line dominates this view of the High Street of the South Yorkshire town of Denby Dale.

Here we see a pair of loaded working boats on the Aylesbury Arm near Broughton on the edge of town. The wooden stumps (bottom left) are known as strapping posts, and were used to tie up boats.

Stramongate Bridge was also known as Miller or Mill Bridge, because it linked the mills on the eastern bank of the River Kent to the 'Auld Grey Town' on the other bank.

The Quay and the harbour were once separate from the rest of the town. The present harbour walls date from the middle of the 19th century; they are built on the site of previous medieval walls.

This is one of Exmouth's two bowling greens - the other is at the back of the town at Phear Park. The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.

Westgate, dating back to the 14th century, provides access to the south-west corner of the old walled town.

Reaching Spalding we are in the heart of the bulb-growing country; the surrounding countryside is a glorious carpet of daffodils, tulips and other flowers at different times of the year.

Though perilously close to being engulfed by Solihull, Knowle manages to hang on to its own distinct character.

At the top of Pier Hill is Royal Terrace, so named because it was here that the Princesses Caroline and Charlotte stayed when visiting the town early in the 19th century.

When in 1853 the population of Tenby had reached 3000, it was decided that a new cemetery and chapel should be constructed on the outskirts of the town on the Lower Windmill Field.

The iron horse trough was erected in 1919 as a memorial to Lieutenant Howard H Dainton and friends of the 4th Gloucesters, who died in the Great War.

By-laws forbade the beating of carpets and driving of cattle through the gardens. The glass-houses on the right produced flowers for town events.

This ornamental fountain was provided in 1896 by Joseph Pease, one of the Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate, and it was traditionally surrounded by beautiful flower beds.

It looks quiet here now, but once the market at Leominster was so successful that the cities of Hereford and Worcester were jealous of its success.

The Bronte industry, founded in this pretty, cobble-streeted West Yorkshire town after the famous literary family made the Parsonage their home in 1820, was already well under way, if this 1950s photograph