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Situated at the southernmost end of the Isle of Thanet, the bay is bounded by cliffs on the north, and by marshes to the south.

A yacht in full sail races past a well-known landmark on the lower Bure, pulling its dinghy behind. A motor cruiser chugs its way along the north bank.

These gates, with agricultural implements incorporated, are situated at the Holly Lodge on the Boughton Road west of the village.

Hathersage in 1902 was just a train ride away from Sheffield, offering a mixture of fresh air, romance and legend.

His carriage has stopped near the summit of one of the most famous of the Lake District passes. It connects Troutbeck with Patterdale.

From the 12th century, the rearing of sheep for their wool became a major source of revenue for the monastic houses in the north of England.

Again we still see the old font in front of the priory arch and a gravel path to the right, long since disappeared, which presumably led to the greenhouse shown in the view of 1885.

To the right of this pathway is another which leads to the site of the postern gate, which was part of the early 11th- and 12th-century defences of Malmesbury.

Oxford's superb Town Hall building dominates this picture of the city centre. At the bottom of the photograph is Queen Street, named after Queen Charlotte, wife of George III.

Grimspound, a few miles north of the village of Widecombe, is one of the finest examples of a Bronze Age village in Europe. It lies half a mile off the road to the right.

This sought-after village grew up at the head of Mylor Creek.

As an important cathedral city, Winchester established an important tradition of tending the sick, probably from the days when pilgrims came to the shrine of St Swithun in search of miraculous cures

The bridge in the foreground of this photograph leads over the River Leven to a car park designated for the use of patrons of Suggitts ice cream parlour, something of an institution in

Once surrounded by the deer-haunted woods and heaths of Cranborne Chase, Alderholt has kept much of its original character, despite some new houses and a church of little antiquity; the latter is a building

Elsecar was one of the many collieries which formerly existed in the South Yorkshire coalfield around the village of Hoyland.

The village stands at the edge of the park of Holkham Hall, the palatial 18th-century home of Thomas Coke, later Earl of Leicester.

Within a few decades, the face of Cleckheaton had changed beyond recognition with the establishment of machine manufacturing.

Unable to take the fortress from Robert de Mowbray, third Earl of Northumberland, William headed south, leaving the prosecution of the siege to others. Mowbray attempted to escape, but was captured.

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 old village consists of a number of small, picturesque thatched and timber-framed cottages to the west of the church and along a lane running west from the river bridge.

The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and

The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and

We are looking south-eastwards across the centre of the village towards the Springhead home of environmental guru Rolf Gardiner and the hills of Cranborne Chase.

Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity