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Tillingham has been owned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's since at least 604.

A little to the north of the Thames and beyond Staines is the village of Stanwell.

Situated in Appleton, to the north of central Widnes, St Bede's is a reminder of the then recent change in the status of Britain's Roman Catholics.

Coping stones now surround the edge of the lake, and the arch of roses that spanned Picklefoot Spring at the point where it emerges has been constructed.

This fine view along Budleigh's strand looks towards the mouth of the River Otter and the bulbous cliff top of Otterton Ledge.

Originally owned by the Priory of St Bartholomew The Great, the estate was acquired in 1709 by James Brydges, later Duke of Chandos. Here he created one of London's great houses.

in recognition of contributions to National War Savings.

Tradition says that a lighthouse was built on the sands here in the early 1700s, but it collapsed into the sand. A ship carrying cotton bales was shipwrecked off Wirral, and the bales washed ashore.

Beneath the church is an ambulatory, which contains a collection of human remains.

Bilston had a lock-making industry of sorts in the 16th century but it remained fairly static; along with Pontypool, Bilston was an early centre for japanning—the copying of Japanese goods by English

An obelisk 265 yards below the lock marks the boundary of the jurisdiction of the Port of London Authority and the Environment Agency.

In the late 1870s the Grammar School boys had lost a corner of their cricket field when a new area was being laid out for the weekly market.

AT the start of the Victorian era, all the roads around Enfield had been turnpiked. These were under the care of the Commissioners for Turnpike Roads, who charged a uniform toll of 3d.

Just past the Stepping Stones public house is one of the roads leading to Polesden Lacy.

Other forms of transport are too swift: the greater delights of Dorset's scenery are missed by using them.

However, perhaps they eavesdropped on an animated discussion between a group of men who were studying a large plan.

of the 20th century.

But the most impressive Victorian building in Sheffield was the new town hall on the corner of Surrey Street and Pinstone Street, where an area of old housing had been demolished to make way for

Here we see the peaceful banks of the New River, with houseboats and leisure craft moored alongside.

Note the handcarts parked at the side of the street on the right, and the advertising hoardings on the side of the shop on the left of the picture, advertising among other things 'Wheatleys Hop Bitters

Victoria Park lies to the east of Newbury town centre.

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small workshops, stables and

Sherborne Lane is shown here when the Crown and Anchor, the large building at the foot of the hill, was still open.

Holidaymakers are boating on the southern reaches of Windermere near Newby Bridge.