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The doors and windows have been altered on the next pair of cottages, whilst the white Rosemary Cottage and the brick gable end beyond remain unchanged.

In the early 1870s, the Duke of Cleveland's estate near to the town centre was given over to development.

Standing just one mile east of Chester-le-Street, Lumley Castle dates from the late 14th century, when Sir Robert Lumley was granted two licences to crenellate.

Atherstone is one of only two places where the game of Shrovetide football is played; the other is Ashbourne in Derbyshire. In 1846 the game was finally banned from the streets of Derby.

The Roman town of Aquae Sulis had as its focus the hot spring-fed baths, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures.

On each side of the bandstand are stone canopies protecting marble vases. The inscription tells us they were the gift of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805 to his Empress, Josephine.

This view of the then new dual carriageway section of the A367 Radstock road, Wells Way, as it drops down from Odd Down towards the city, seems a curious subject for a photograph, but in those far-off

Madingley is a typical example of an estate village which was remodelled in order to improve the view from the landlord's mansion.

Two bridges and a ford cross the stream that flows past the Blue Anchor Inn, which stands at the centre of the village.

John Blackmore was rector of St Mary the Virgin, and it was here that his grand- son Richard set the scene for the tragic marriage ceremony of Lorna Doone to John Ridd in his famous novel

The Victoria Cottage Hospital was opened in Pettits Lane in 1888 on a plot of land donated by Mr W Mashiter.

It was erected on the site of the old market hall, which was demolished in c1860.

A rather flowery title for a small shopping development of the late 1950s on the Fairfield Estate, away to the east of the town's main shopping street.

The opening of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in 1883 was considered momentous enough to merit a public holiday.

Despite the masonry facings, this bridge across the Axe is made of concrete, built to the design of Philip Brannon in 1877.

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

The road on the left curves past the houses of Nansladron, where the fields in the valley floor are now caravan and camping parks.

The area became very popular with visitors from London after the establishment of the railway in 1856.

Just inland from Scarborough, along the Forge Valley, lies the peaceful village of Hackness.

This was the scene in the central shopping and entertainment centre of Barnsley until the late 1960s; then, in the name of modernisation, the whole area including New Street and Cheapside

The west side of the Market Place is in the distance.

The Village 1959 At the west end of the village, at the junction of Gainsborough Road with the A30, is this former school of the 1880s, built in rock-faced rubble stone and ashlar dressings.

Rode church is at the south-east end of the village, the bulk of which is to the north-west towards the River Frome. This view was taken from the south-west.

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.