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The Downs, like Horton and the common, were now part of London's Green Belt, and no further development would take place on them.

By the beginning of the 17th century the centre of Glasgow had shifted south, to the foot of the High Street where it joined the Saltmarket.

Not part of the University, Westminster College is one of several theological colleges in Cambridge; this one is the college of the Presbyterian Church of England.

Grindleford's war memorial (left) at the foot of Sir William Hill in the upper part of the village is based on the design of Eyam's Saxon preaching cross, and so it repeats the strange truncated appearance

The forbidding shape of Dartmoor rises in the background of this view of the Great Western Railway viaduct over the River Erme.

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family. The central hall is open to the roof beams.

The spacious northern end of the High Street, with its central water garden and carefully tended flowerbeds, marks the area where the market hall stood until 1853.

Archaeological discoveries over the last couple of years may push the date of the area's habitation back further.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

The earliest castle here is thought to have been built by Bernard de Baliol; it consisted of a ringwork with wooden palisading protected by an outer ditch defence.

Another of the small iron-working hamlets in the valley of the Tilling Bourne, Friday Street probably derives its name from the Scandinavian goddess Frigga; it still enjoys its peaceful setting above a

Frith's photographers visited Aldeburgh's High Street over a period of sixty years; their photographs, arranged here in chronological order, are a potent record of changing times, the advance of the

Hothfield Place was the seat of the Tufton family, but was pulled down after the Second World War. In the 16th century Sir John Tufton entertained Queen Elizabeth I over two days.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

The parish church of St Peter, which dates from before 1222, was built on the site of part of the old St John's Chapel at the side of the Roman Akeman Street.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a number of new streets were built following the grid pattern of the mediaeval town.

Harrogate is one of the oldest of England's spa towns: its mineral springs were discovered in the 16th century.

Situated six miles south-east of Mold, Caergwrle is a small castle comprising the ruins of three round towers and a polygonal turret; it was captured and destroyed in 1282.

The village, which in parochial terms was originally bracketed together with Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt, which share the mother church of St Wilfred, lies some eight miles to the south

There is much texture in this detailed composition of one corner of the harbour, made by the slate stones of the breakwater wall, the heavy coiled ropes and the basketwork of the crab pots.

Waterhouse favoured the use of contrasting red brick and terracotta; as well as using it at Hutton Hall, he used it on his other two buildings in Guisborough, the Grammar School and Overbeck, a private

The house was silent and no one seemed to be about … It was one of the loveliest mornings that ever dawned upon this world … The clear pure crisp air of the early morning blew fresh and exhilarating

In 1651, Sir Richard Weston of nearby Sutton Place embarked on his great enterprise to create the Wey Navigation and make the river commercially navigable from Guildford to the Thames, by straightening

In the foreground we see the roof of Bury House and its stables at the western end of The Bury.