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George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and friend of Charles II, was brought to Kirbymoorside after falling from his horse whilst out hunting.

The pond is in central Ewell; the wall separates it from the grounds of Bourne Hall on the right.

Clovelly's remarkable state of preservation is due to the philanthropic nature of the Hamlyn family, who acquired the manor in 1740.

Pebbles were once known locally as pobbles, and the ford on the River Otter was full of them - hence the name of the village.

Edward Milner was also responsible for the design of the 23 acres of gardens which adjoin the Pavilion at Buxton.

The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the

Rockley Sands developed as one of Poole's great leisure centres in the last half of the 20th century, and boasted one of England's first supermarkets to cater for the increase in visitors.

The white-walled bungalow in the foreground looks a little incongruous in this view of the centre of Hutton, which shows the bridge over the River Leven in the background.

Here we have a long view down a broad Wimborne street, with the towers of the Minster in the distance.

Littlebredy is one of those beautiful villages that time seems to have passed by, a real survivor of earlier pastoral farming.

An older chapel at Alderholt fell into ruin during the reign of Charles II. The original was used by huntsmen to bless their expeditions into the wilderness of Cranborne Chase.

The pavements of Market Street were crowded with pram-pushing mothers shopping for the week's provisions.

Extensive development and infilling has transformed the village into more of a suburb of Hinckley today.

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

Seaview shows off a huge variety of architecture, as this photograph demonstrates.

Winchcombe was the final home of Henry VIII's surviving Queen Catherine Parr, who lived just south of the town at Sudeley Castle.

There was early criticism of the architecture of some of the college buildings. To mark the establishment's jubilee, this new chapel designed by H A Prothero was built - to great critical acclaim.

All Saints' Church contains a memorial to the Reverend Lyte, author of 'Abide With Me' and 'Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven'.

The rather barren appearance of the High Street exemplified in this photograph sets the tenor of this large mainly red-brick village.

Part of the village is clustered around the top of a ravine; notice the steep flight of steps in the lower foreground dropping away down toward the sea.

A party of three carriages of sightseers await to depart from Larne Main Street.

Bindon Abbey was the location of an important Cistercian monastery and dates back to 1172. Little remains of the original building; this neo-gothic gatehouse dates back only to the 1790s.

Only the Priory Church and Gatehouse remain; the rest of the buildings were taken down in the aftermath of Henry VIII's Dissolution.

This red-brick Georgian coaching inn stands at the centre of Great Witley. The village is situated in a pleasant spot just below the Abberley Hills, an outcrop of the Malverns.