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Cleeve Hill is the western edge of the Cotswolds, and at over a thousand feet the highest point. In the far distance are the hills of Wales, the Mendips and Exmoor.

The 6th Duke of Devonshire supervised the design of Edensor (pronounced “Ensor”) in 1839 as a model estate village for his workers at nearby Chatsworth.

Poorly compacted, and composed of glacial drift, the cliffs of the north Norfolk coast have been compared to 'dirty tallow', being unstable and liable to erosion.

This charming study shows part of the main street of Great Bookham, which grew up on the spring line of the North Downs.

This attractive little village in West Dorset stands at the junction of a number of ancient packhorse trails.

The ivy-clad inn on the left of the photograph is the Miller of Mansfield, a famous pub in the Thames Valley.

William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, held the lordship of the manor through the reigns of Richard I, John and Henry III.

During the time leading up to the First World War (1914-18), a number of food shortages, popularly referred to as famines, hit Barrow-in-Furness.

The junction of Castle Street and Water Street, outside the Town Hall, has always been one of the busiest in Liverpool, and a natural meeting place.

Nearby, just into the High Street, there is another building of similar antiquity, the Tribunal.

Whereas Glasgow Green had been a part of the common grazing land of the burgh since the earliest times, the greening of Glasgow really began in 1852 when the city acquired the estates of Woodlands

Old Swinford is a suburb of Stourbridge today, which represents a reversal of fortune: the Domesday Book (1086) recorded Stourbridge as part of the manor of 'Suineford'.

Located on the east side of Magdalen Bridge, The Plain signifies the boundary of the old city. Just out of sight, the River Cherwell flows under the easterly part of the High Street.

The laying out of Windsor Gardens in 1880 was an early manifestation of the 'new' Penarth, an integral part of the work to gentrify the seafront area.

This is an excellent example of the seemingly inexorable tide of uniform London County Council housing which swept northwards to engulf this former hamlet of Elstree after the Second World War.

Although not clearly visible in the photograph, the ceiling, built by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, contains the coats of arms of all the Knights of the Garter since the foundation of the Order in the 14th

Holywell Street presents a rather pleasant picture of 20th-century half-timbered revival buildings, some of which would not appear out of place in Chester.

A Pavilion by James Tait (1834-1915), typical of the early 1880s, with its hints of Gothic merging into Tudor fram- ing, making a valuable contribution to the ambience of the park, which was laid out

This view of the Upper Harbour in the ancient port of Whitby situated where the River Esk runs into the North Sea has hardly changed since the 1950s.

This is a beautiful example of the mixing of stone and timberwork that is typical of many houses that snuggle amongst the hills of southern Shropshire.

The Velindra was just one of the paddle steamers that were the lifeblood of Ilfracombe`s tourist industry in the latter part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th.

It seems that the custom first acquired a jury in 1701, when it was composed of five young ladies: the four daughters of the lord of the manor, and the steward`s one daughter.

This was the original course of the high street. The cluster of timbered houses are of late 15th century date.

Well-ordered rows of caravans are ready to welcome summer visitors.