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The Army, probably from the neighbouring garrison town of Catterick, was on parade in the sloping, rectangular Market Place at Leyburn in Wensleydale when the Frith photographer called for this picture

The Highways Department has made a fine job of the flowerbeds on this roundabout at the North End of Northallerton, the busy little town on the River Wiske on the western edge of the North York Moors.

Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is an important place of pilgrimage, second only to Becket's tomb at Canterbury.

This charming village straddles the banks of the River Bure amidst beautiful marshland. Set in the heart of Broadland, it has been called 'Little Venice'.

The climax of the High Street is the 1892 Cross Keys pub building in the centre of the photograph. To the right is the tall White Hart, completed in 1902.

One of Bristol's more flamboyant characters was Richard Smith, chief surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, and a councillor from 1835 to 1843.

Swinton and Pendlebury lie to the north-west of Salford. St Peter's is the only church in the Manchester area to have been commissioned from George Edmund Street.

In 1312 England was on the brink of civil war. Robert the Bruce seized the advantage by dispatching his brother Edward, together with James Douglas, into northern England.

Many of the buildings in Chideock are thatched and built of the warm local yellow sandstone which, despite modern traffic, makes this pretty village well worth a visit.

The New Shambles, off Finkle Street, was built in 1803. The word 'shambles' comes from the Old English 'sceamol', which originally meant a bench for the sale of meat.

Frith's photographer could not resist one of the most photographed views along the Thames: Windsor Castle on its cliff-top towering above the town and river.

As we pass beneath the bridge, still on the Egham bank, the 18th-century Swan Hotel on the right now also occupies the boathouse and garage in front of it, behind the ladies with their parasols.

Things fall off a bit when the High reaches Carfax, at the corner of St Aldate's Street and Cornmarket Street.

Guarding the road from the south, the Hotspur Gate was built in 1450; a licence to fortify the Border town of Alnwick had been granted in 1434.

Stour, two miles south-west of Chilham. In the main street of the village, we see a nice picket fence and some typically ivy-clad buildings.

Now only a hamlet, this village was once well-known for the quarrying of Bethersden marble; apart from being used locally, it was used for interior work in both Canterbury and Rochester cathedrals, and

In 1627 Richard Foley opened a slitting mill at Hyde in Kinver for the purpose of cutting iron rods into suitable lengths for nailers.

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

It is said that Drummond was sitting under the great sycamore tree in front of the house when Jonson trudged up the path. Drummond met him with 'Welcome, welcome, royal Ben!'

The lower part of this strange structure is Roman; it was the west corner of the Roman fort. The upper part is 14th-century. Inside, there is a small ruined tower.

Brown Candover's spired church was built in 1845 by the first Lord Ashburton, replacing an earlier place of worship demolished the previous year.

The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who

The stream is actually the River Cober, which used to regularly flood this area of Lower Green.

There was a castle at Aylesbury, but its location is unknown: only the name of Castle Street commemorates it. Here the photographer looks uphill towards Temple Square.