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Bramber is located at the foot of a Norman castle guarding the tidal River Adur. The castle was stormed and wrecked by the Parliamentarians in the Civil War, in 1641.

An overview of Barnstaple taken from the Mount Sandford area. The lush fields are clear to see, as is the bridge, Raleigh Cabinet Works, and the estuary.

This is the elevation to Donegall Quay, with the entrance for the masters of ocean-going ships coming to report their arrival with goods which had to pay duty.

It was the centrepiece of the “Cliftonville” area around Shrubbery and Atlantic Roads.

The building on the left, now demolished and replaced by St Thomas's Church Hall, was a cottage for the tannery workers.

The Guildhall (left) with its tower was built in 1881, and the Town Hall (right) was added in 1887 in commemoration of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee.

Her funeral was to be long-remembered as the last great suffragette rally, a pageant in which thousands of women in white paid their last respects to the heroine who died for their right to vote

Members of the Bronte family are certain to have imbibed here, and the 17th-century hotel traded heavily on this association. The church to the right is St Michael's.

In the words of Edward Baines Leeds was 'a slower town and our neighbourhood is quieter'.

The clock tower at the northern end of the High Street was built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.

A famous Dublin landmark, Cooley and Gandon's magnificent Four Courts, built in 1785 and gutted by fire in the Civil War of 1922. Restored, it opened again for business in October 1931.

Over at Blackpool, they used long mobile gangways at low tide and horse-drawn boat carts the rest of the time.

The Wheatsheaf Public House on the right is now a jewellers shop, and Matthews, the Gillingham brewery, closed down soon after this picture was taken.

Well, in the case of St George's it has been calculated that 18,000 bodies have been interred here since 1180. The nave and chancel were rebuilt in 1328-33 and the tower is older.

The 1820 interior has some features from the earlier building, including central panels on the reredos given in 1736 and the organ, which dates from 1799.

The watermill at Crumplehorne, in the valley just above Polperro village, is a good example of an overshot waterwheel and its launder.

At some of the weirs, salmon ladders have been provided to help them ascend to their spawning grounds.

This dark-coloured cake of flour, treacle and ground ginger was a favourite snack with Victorians at fairs and street events. The roughly-shaped pieces were measured into paper cones.

This colossal building, once home of the controversial Greater London Council, was designed by Ralph Knott and begun in 1912.

As we look east from near London Road, we can see the layout of the wide 13th-century market place.

Founded in poverty in 1132 by a group of monks from St Mary's Abbey, York, Fountains eventually became very wealthy.

Lying opposite Castletown in Carrickey Bay, the inner harbour dries completely at low water, exposing an varied array of assorted weed and barnacle-covered rocks.

The different styles and materials used in the construction of the surrounding buildings indicates how the little port developed. Porlock Weir

With an old castle, and the River Exe running through the town, it presents plenty of opportunities for recreation.