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There were several variants of the Thames sailing barge.

Like the city of Durham, Shrewsbury was founded on a peninsula of high ground almost completely surrounded by water.

Like so many of its neighbours, Downham Market was a river port of some importance until railway workings cut it off from the waters of the Ouse.

Believed to have been constructed in 1350 or thereabouts, it was badly damaged during the 17th century when the cathedral's demise was being prepared.

The Co-operative's elegant range of buildings with a clock tower was another victim of 1960s development in the town. The Society was formed by a group of silk workers in 1864.

The recreation ground was part of Little Eastleigh Farm. It became known as the cricket field, and in due course was bought by the Urban District Council.

Cranbrook's High Street, entering the town from Hawkhurst, and Stone Street, leading on towards Tenterden and Maidstone, form a L-shape with the tile-hung fascia of the 15th-century George Hotel at

The cinema and the row of shops were built in the 1930s on the site of the Rose and Crown Hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1922.

The new memorial was unveiled on Sunday 4 July 2004; it commemorates the granting of the Freedom of the Borough of Hyndburn to the Queen's Lancashire Regiment.

Some of the freeholders had been setting up stalls in the middle of the road that were now becoming permanent structures.

Some of the freeholders had been setting up stalls in the middle of the road that were now becoming permanent structures.

The early history of St Mary's is difficult to trace as all documents relating to the parish were destroyed at the time of the Reformation.

He had become converted to the idea of 'educating' nature, using and modifying the natural contours to produce pleasing compositions. This was to lead him to create one of England's great gardens.

The cenotaph-like War Memorial occupies the left foreground of this view of Heanor's park, while on the right, a group of three 60s youths eye the cameraman suspiciously.

A pretty village with various Georgian houses, Slinfold lies in the countryside to the west of Horsham.

Another view of the mountain taken from across the valley with a very small man-made reservoir in the immediate foreground.

The pretty village of Bainbridge, centred on its extensive green, stands on the banks of the River Ure (foreground).

The church is that of St Andrew, which lies on the western edge of a steep-sided valley, two miles north of Presteigne.

The pretty estate village of Hovingham, in the Vale of Pickering, is famous for its lime trees which shade the entrance to Hovingham Hall, built about 1760 by Thomas Worsley, Surveyor General to William

North Stoneham Church was rebuilt at the end of the 16th century in the Gothic style.

Rather like King's Norton, Moseley appears in Domesday Book as a berewick of the Royal Manor of Bromsgrove.

Tucked away in the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of 'Middlemarch' here in 1871

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.

In July 1740 a number of the inhabitants of Yarm were brought to the Guisborough Sessions, accused of riotous assembly.