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Long shadows indicate the end of a pleasurable day's sailing from this well-known beach.

Many of the buildings we see here had recently been built in the third and fourth quarters of the 19th century as the town grew on the prosperity brought to the locality by visitors.

The splendid Minster dominates the town of Wimborne, though there are many other buildings worth seeking out.

As part of the agreement, the magnificent drive and avenue of limes were to be preserved 'for ever and a day'.

This area was part of a reconstruction scheme in the 1790s. The statues of Romans and the balustrade to the right were added in 1897, along with a colonnade around the Roman baths below.

Without doubt, Bluntisham's most famous daughter was the novellist Dorothy L Sayers, creator of the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey.

The pinnacled Victorian Parish Church of St John, Cragg Vale, with its crowded graveyard, looks down the isolated, wooded valley where the coiners once operated, far from the eyes of the law and authority

For casualties, the Pitsea Health Centre was held at Pitsea School, and was one of just three for Basildon residents of the 1950s; the others were in Craylands, Timberlog Lane, and Florence Road, Laindon

A further view of Sackville Street, taken from the west side. Sackville (O'Connell) Street was, and is, one of Dublin's main thoroughfares.

The mill stands on the River Dochart. Not far away is the ruined Breadalbane stronghold of Finlarig Castle. One of its more interesting features is what is thought to be an ancient beheading pit.

This is a busy scene, with thousands of holidaymakers on the beach. The western shelter has now been completed, and work on the finishing of the promenade and the eastern shelter is under way.

A late 19th-century advertisment for the George Hotel reads: 'This house, being in the centre of the picturesque scenery of Pangbourne, affords every accommodation for tourists, boating parties or anglers

The craggy, steep but captivating coastline of the area is amply demonstrated in this view.

This old coaching inn is one of many in Daventry which stood on the London to Holyhead turnpike.

Originally opened in November 1874, the Botanic Gardens were designed as 'a place with an almost endless variety of attractions'; admission was 4d.

It was from here that some of the biggest smack and ketch-rigged trawlers sailed to fish grounds ranging from the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the Western Approaches.

The principal export from the tiny south Cornish port of Charlestown was china clay, much of it bound for Runcorn; from there it would be forwarded on to the Potteries.

Originally a wooden Saxon fortress built on two islands in a natural moat formed by the river Len, it was transformed into a solid stone castle at the beginning of the 12th century by the Norman baron

Built by Archbishop Warham in the early 16th century, this small manor house, consisting of a three-storey brick tower, a gallery (later turned into cottages), and the single-storey storehouse beyond

St Peters was designed by architect George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of

The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Heswall was opened in 1911 on a 9-acre site bordering Telegraph Road.

This part 16th-century timber-framed building is named after the Wylyot or Williot family, who held the manor in the mid 1300s as an outlier of the manor of South Mimms.

This area was called Crouche in 1400; the name derives from Old English 'cruc' or cross, but does this mean cross-roads or near to the cross?

In contrast to the picturesque qualities of St Andrews Old Church to its south, the late arrival has a not surprisingly metropolitan arrogance, as it was moved stone by stone from Well Street, close to