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This is a very popular view of the town, showing the three bays separated by rock outcrops. The pier was built on one of these outcrops in 1865, only to be damaged in a storm the following year.

Work on Denbigh began in October 1282 during the second of Edward I's Welsh Wars.

This substantial open space at the heart of the town is the original site of the Charter Market.

There are two of these large man-made ponds at the front of the college. This, the left-hand one, is always full of ducks and other wild fowl.

Richard I was responsible for establishing a settlement on Portsea Island, and it was he who built the first dock on Portsmouth in the late 12th century.

This view gives a clear example of the impact commercial motor traffic had on the Great North Road, prior to the building of the M1 motorway.

In 1882, the wealthy lord of the manor and the father of the incumbent Rector of Ashtead, Sir Thomas Lucas, donated a small iron church for the expanding population in this part of the parish.

The manor of Barden lay to the south-west of Tonbridge. Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

Staines may have got its name from the stone- paved remains of a branch of the Roman road of Akeman Street, that once ran to the important Roman station of Ad Pontes nearby, or perhaps

Prestbury was the mother church of Macclesfield.

Twickenham Museum Efforts to establish a museum for Twickenham stemmed from the creation of the Museum of Richmond.

Bass, surgeon of Boston, Matthew Flinders of Donington and John Franklin of Spilsby.

The smooth slopes of Skiddaw dominate the northern Lakeland town of Keswick in this view from Castle Head.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe of the Lake

This offers a closer view of the southern end of the High Street.

On a steep hillside commanding views of the Weald, north-west of Ashford, this charming village was near the seat of the Dering family at the now-vanished Surrenden Dering a mile away.

Thorney was part of the Duke of Bedford's estate, and played a focal part in the construction of the Bedford Levels in the 17th century.

The village of Cuddesdon had been the official home of the Bishops of Oxford for over 400 years, earning it the title of Oxfordshire's 'Holy Village'.

The steep slopes of The Bank provide a grandstand view of Baildon, a typical Pennine town standing on the edge of Baildon Moor, famous for its enigmatic prehistoric 'cup and ring'-marked stones.

In that year the cutlers of Sheffield presented a successful bill to Parliament.

These shops face the small bus shelter in the centre of S258082. Above G W Ager's 'Complete Outfitters' is an advertisement for Dunlop boots.

The next sequence of photographs looks at the picturesque village of Geddington.

The name 'saltern' suggests that this was a place where early inhabitants of the island would come to the seashore in search of salt for the winter preservation of meat.

Just off the Fosse Way, this village, once the site of a Roman settlement, clusters around the banks of the wide, shallow Windrush, which is crossed by a number of simple footbridges, some