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Like Broadfield Park, the grounds were developed as a mixture of formal and informal areas with breathtaking lawns and a lake.

The magnificent late 12th-century priory church of St Mary and St Michael was founded in 1190 by William Marshall, Baron of Cartmel.

The parish church of St Mary dates from about 1141, though much restoration work was carried out during the Victorian era.

It is one of the smallest churches in England - it seats about 20 people. All that remains today is part of the chancel of a once much larger 13th-century church.

It was now a shopping street, with the buildings of fairly recent date providing commercial office accomodation on the upper floors.

Here we see the broad sweep of the sandy bay to the west of the harbour area on a quiet day.

Towards the end of the 19th century it was decided that the town needed a town hall commensurate with its new affluent status.

Central areas of the city and old industrial districts are being repopulated. There could be as many as 5,000 new apartment homes in and around the city centre in the very near future.

In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.

In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.

One of the founders of the Infirmary had been Dr White, and it was his son Charles who made many changes and advances in the treatment of women.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

Moreover, a line drawn through it is said to separate the London of pleasure and fashion from that of work and business.The railway station occupies the ground floor of the prestigious company-owned

Seventy years before there was a timber quay under the walls of the Tower, with tall-masted sailing ships edging through the raised bascules of Tower Bridge.The river here was thick with islands of

These days Hopes Green is simply a westward extension of South Benfleet, but it started life as a hamlet of fishermen's cottages.

Boscawen Street is certainly refined, and its considerable width is due to the demolition of a central row of houses in Regency times.

It was rebuilt thanks to the efforts of James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth. On his retreat north in 1745, Prince Charles Edward Stuart held a council of war in Crieff at the Drummond Arms.

The buildings look pretty much the same today, though Henry Cooper's film developing business and the premises of the Midland Lace Association have gone.

Tomlinson's Stores is now the premises of Age Concern, and Goss Bros is now a tea shop.

Despite the grand appearance of the building, the acoustics in the Winter Gardens pavilion were suspect.

This view of Station Road looks south-west past the junction to Havelock Street, with the imposing clock tower of the 1903 Co-op store.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

Villagers wait with their baskets for the boats to come in with their catches of herring.

The bustling twice-weekly market was clearly a popular event at the turn of the century.