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Portreath's first pier was built in 1760 by Francis Basset, a member of one of Cornwall's most prominent mining families.

The north side of Cobourg Street is almost unchanged.

Considered to be one of the finest Gothic Revival houses in England, Arbury is built on the site of an Augustinian monastery demolished during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Vast quantities of water are required to manufacture paper, hence the situation of the paper mill at St Neots on the Great Ouse.

Boscombe spent much of its history in Hampshire, until bureaucracy reassigned it to the County of Dorset in the 1970s.

The village nonconformist chapel is prominent on the right of this photograph of Frizington, a large former coal mining village just inland from Whitehaven.

This is a closer view of Darley Dale, looking towards the solitary tree-topped Oker Hill, which was the subject of a sonnet by William Wordsworth published in 1829 about two local lads going to war

De Montfort Hall has been used for nearly a century for all types of meetings, entertainment, education and civic celebrations. A host of stars have performed here, for the acoustics are first-class.

Whippingham village lies close to Osborne House, and Victoria's consort Prince Albert had a hand in the extraordinary design of the church.

There are few scenes on the Isle of Wight more captivating than Yarmouth harbour on a busy sailing day.

Because the town had been so heavily dependent on the single industry of fishing, the Depression of the 1930s arrived in Brixham early.

One row of houses further on is the line of the old Roman wall, whilst just off-camera to the right are the ruins of the Norman St Botolph's Priory, the first in the country founded by the Augustinian

Here we see an imaginative and creative new use for a selection of discarded farm implements, including a scythe, sickles, hay rake, spades, ploughshare and pitchforks, which has become a minor curiosity

By exploring the high ground around the town it is possible to gain some idea of the scale of industrialisation around Stroud.

When walking the street's length from east to west, you can appreciate the sweeping curve which gradually reveals some of Oxford's most striking landmarks.

The tree-shaded Magdalen Walks along the bank of the Cherwell are truly delightful and a perfect way to study the changing seasons.

Two miles south of Bulbarrow, one of Dorset's highest summits, Hilton and neighbouring Milton Abbas share some of the most beautiful countryside in the county.

Dancing to the accompaniment of the small band playing on the left is clearly a popular pastime. Note the lines of canvas bathing tents at the head of the beach.

Awnings are out on the sunny side of the street, and the long shadows point to the end of the afternoon. The children are just out of school.

This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side- by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

Choppy water washes between the piers of Brisport Harbour; the cranes of Costain and other contractors working on the extension of the basin are to the left.

This was for many years the popular image of surfing and bathing at Newquay, when plywood surfboards were the order of the day - this was long before the coming of wetsuits and fibreglass

Loders was built in the domain of a Benedictine Priory founded by the Norman grandee Baldwin de Redvers during the reign of Henry I.

Modern-day Exmouth sprawls across the two ancient parishes of Withycombe Raleigh and Littleham. The latter became a suburb of Exmouth in the last decades of the 20th century.