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Oswestry was the site of the Battle of Maserfeld in AD 641. King Oswald of Northumbria was killed, his body cut into pieces and the pieces hung in a tree - hence Oswald's tree or Oswestry.

And now to the greatest mystery: who were the people who raised the tumuli or burial mounds on Petersfield Heath during the Bronze Age some 1,000 years after the Stone Age?

One of Anglesey's best-known sailing resorts, at the eastern end of the Menai Strait, Beaumaris was founded by Edward I, who built one of his great castles here, although it was never finished.

At this time Warburton was a small village on the south bank of the Mersey, five miles west of Altrincham and twelve miles from Manchester.

This picture was taken just two years after the horse-trams had been taken over by the operators of the coastal electric tramway.

Duck Street forks to the right of the tree, Monxton Road to the left. King Charles I campled near the village with a force of 5,000.

Visitors to the tourist attraction of Stockbridge enter downhill at either end of the High Street. Almost a mile long, it runs east-west, with narrow ribbons of houses on either side.

The 11th-century church of St Peter and St Paul is heavily restored. Cakeham Manor House is a medieval palace of the Bishop of Chichester.

The partly-restored, moated, 13th-century castle was once one of the regular residences of the Scottish kings.

No expense was spared in the making of the park and its lodge. The Borough coat of arms and its motto, 'Arte et Labore', is cut into the stone, along with the name of the park over the entrance arch.

This house stands on the corner of Coney Street and New Street. The lower part of the house is now a shop that sells mobile telephones, but the upper storey remains virtually unchanged.

Just one mile from Weymouth stand the remains of Sandsfoot Castle. Originally the fort comprised a two-storey building with a north tower and a gatehouse.

The precinct is built on the site of the Townsend tram terminus, next to a junction known as the Cross, which is also the name of a good-looking pub on the opposite corner.

Taken only twenty miles from London, this study of the centre of this small riverside village at the end of the Victorian era serves to emphasise how such settlements within commuting distance of the capital

A herd of contented pigs rootle opposite the post office on the green which runs alongside a two-and-a-half mile stretch of the Romans' Stane Street.

The church of St Peter, with its 14th-century tower made entirely of wood and supported inside by a framework of huge oak timbers, also has a 13th-century chancel and a south aisle added a hundred years

On the left, in Rickinghall Inferior, is the bow window of Edmund Kerry's hardware and newsagent's shop. The next house beside The Bell Hotel has been demolished.

The fortified manor of the Wynn family, built at various stages from around 1490, is seen with carefully tended beds and wisteria and ivy-clad walls.

He thatched many of the buildings, but over time most have reverted to slate roofs - this is one of the few still thatched.

The south door of the church is visible and the extent of the cemetery easier to see. There are allotments traversed by a path from South View to the fields and Lyddington in the south.

At one time Bardsea was part of Lancashire, and could only be reached by boat or by a dangerous route over the shifting sands of Morecombe Bay.

Sedlescombe is a hillside village near Battle, with a large green.A local mill made the best gunpowder in Europe.An iron pot containing a large number of coins of Edward the Confessor was found in

The concrete sea defence to Morecambe has been constructed, and provides a sort of primitive promenade.

This is a section of the Trent and Mersey Canal lying to the west of the village. On the other side of the village is the famous Anderton Boat Lift, which was built in 1875 by E Leader Williams.