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The 14th- or 15th-century church of St John Baptist has a barrel roof, made by the shipwrights from West Bay which had been plastered over until the church was cleaned and renovated some 20 years

The village gets its name from a Barton (or Berton), the old word for a rickyard.

This building is no longer operating as a guest house; the caravan and camping park is now the main business, and it has had an indoor swimming pool since about 1980.

The Municipal Building, with its tower and clock face, stands out further up the street.

A typical tavern on Pilling Moss, the Old Ship still has a pump in the yard embossed with the initials of the Nicholson family and dated 1782.The spire of St John's church can be seen in the background

The Market Square is at the junction of the High Street, Abbey Street and Chapel Lane. Chapel Lane was formerly Hogmarket, and is now called St John's Place.

St John's church is on high ground overlooking the tidal river. It has a Norman flint-built round tower, and a fine shingled octagonal spire.

St Mary's is another restored Norman church. Dating from around 1200, additions were made in the 1400s; a transept was demolished at that time. Restorations were made by John Colson in 1862.

Pleasington Priory, a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary and John the Baptist and built in 1819, is set on a hill on Pleasington Lane, close to the River Dunsop and Witton Park, Blackburn.

In 1832 it was replaced and here we see the knobbly spire of that date.

This scene in Wallasey Village, near the junction with St John's Road, shows an old thatched cottage typical of the time.

Completed in 1846, St Catherine's Church was designed by J H Good Jnr.

The exceptions are the Roman Catholic church of St Michael, which was built in 1871 as a Primitive Baptist chapel, and Barton Abbotts, an impressive mid 18th-century house built by the wool stapler William

The church beyond is St Michael's, rebuilt in 1901 to the design of Sir Arthur Blomfield, who was also the architect of the Bank of England in London.

The church of St John the Baptist is mainly 13th-century and has a wood-shingled broach spire.The village has many historic houses.

Situated on the corner of York Road and Girling Street, St John's was designed by Josiah Gunton of London and opened in April 1902.

Zenon Vantini, the first manager of the North Euston Hotel, backed by the Rev John St Vincent Beechey, put forward the idea of a boarding school for boys, and by 1904 the school was flourishing, despite

Beyond the war memorial in this view we glimpse the spire of the church of St John the Baptist, where during the Civil War some 340 troops from the Parliamentarian army were held prisoner.

Chenies, a mile downstream from Latimer, takes its name from the Cheyne family who held the manor from the 13th century until the 16th century when it passed, through the marriage in 1526

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

This sizeable village nestles in a valley close to two notable landmarks: Lewesdon Hill (894 feet) and Pilsdon Pen, at 909 feet, the highest hill in Dorset.

'This England', as Mark Twain described 'that beauty which is England alone - it has no duplicate'.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.