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The Church Square at Ampthill, including the almshouses, is part of the second largest Conservation Area in Bedfordshire.

Here we see the first half of George Hudson's dream of outdoing Bath. The house where Bram Stoker stayed in 1890 is in the centre behind the lamppost.

Although the church is of relatively modern construction – it was built in the mid 1860s - the site has religious significance probably dating back to before the Norman Conquest.

This is another of the Lincolnshire churches built with the local limestone. It overlooks the Trent and Witham valley towards the Nottinghamshire border.

Penarth was, until quite recently, merely the marine residence and bathing resort of the well-to-do inhabitants of Cardiff; now, however, it bids fair to become of far more than local importance.

In addition to pure air, Weston has an unlimited supply of pure water from a never-failing spring, owned by the town, which is said to have its source in the Mendip range of hills.

It used to be said that George Square reminded visiting Londoners of Trafalgar Square, but the central column was a monument to Sir Walter Scott rather than Lord Nelson.

Scone is, of course, associated with the Stone of Destiny. This measures 26x16x10 inches and is thought to have been a portable altar that once belonged to an early missionary from Iona or Ireland.

An oasis between industrial Syston and unlovely Sileby, the scene has changed little over the years, apart from a stepping-up in volume of motorised traffic.

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet

This church was built on a steep hillside between 1859 and 1861, but the tower and spire were added between 1884 and 1886. The architect was the popular John Norton of Bristol.

With a shortage of burial places in the capital, the London Necropolis Company bought 2,000 acres of heathland at Brookwood and laid out one-fifth of it as a cemetery.

The chimneystacks of Lord Burley`s Hospital are an eye-catching feature along the south bank of the Welland.

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894.

This shows both sides of the river. The punt crossed the Thames to a slipway to the right of Dunton's boathouse, and the fare was 1d.

St Brynach of Nevern, who built the first church here, is said to have had his first hermitage on Carn Ingli where he communed with angels who supplied all his needs.

This building is the last remnant of the Tannery, and still stands east of the bridge opposite Greenaway's car park.

This tranquil scene shows a rowing boat moored on the northern shore of Wastwater.

The newly-opened Grammar School at the end of Windmill Avenue. A ceramic mural on the front by William Mitchell demonstrated the progressiveness of the architects.

This delightful study of a cockle woman on the sands of the Exe estuary shows the importance of the shellfish industry to the area.

There is a strong sense of the unnatural in this picture.

The 15th-century tower of St Mary's church overlooks the Market Place. The roof is decorated with angels bearing the marks of shots supposedly fired at them by Puritan soldiers.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Moffat attracted tourists wishing to sample the delights of the nearby sulphureous-saline wells.

The growing Victorian population of East- the-Water's first place of worship was a prefabricated 'iron church' built in 1881.