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This Neolithic long barrow was built around 2,500 BC, and the remains of 28 human skeletons were found when the site was excavated in 1854.

The façade of the Town Hall is perhaps too busy; but notice that it contains a number of niches.

Whilst the High Street is a shadow of its former self, the Rose & Crown Hotel, located at the junction with the Market Place, is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance, with its current owners investing

A century on, the view of Church Hill in Marlborough Street is still easily recognisable, despite the two great complexes built on each side of the road, the Lloyds TSB Training Centre on the left and

In South Street, Shodfriars Hall is an echo of the four friaries established in the medieval town.

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport. Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside.

A tennis court was laid out for the exercise of the workers who were stationed at this lonely spot. Note also the allotment gardens behind the station.

The village is more well-known for its much-visited stately home, Penshurst Place - its entrance arch can be seen at the bottom of the lane.

The whole area on the western side of Ilkley is the wild Rombalds Moor, which stretches right over to Shipley Glen and the Aire Valley.

Crowley was ahead of his time; he built cottages for his workers and the community had the serv- ices of a doctor, schoolmaster and a parson.

Whether arriving from the harbour or the Glenarm Road, this was the first view of the aptly named Main Street.

Here we see Maldon’s famous promenade— now Promenade Park—with a fine array of fishing boats; the tower of St Mary’s church, with its landmark little white spire, can be seen in the background.Today

Today the great conurbation that is Bournemouth has absorbed older settlements nearby and has linked up with the ancient towns of Christchurch and Poole.

Seen here is Hurricane, a locomotive one-third of the size of normal engines.

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

The House of Correction stood on this site until 1829. The county jail was then relocated and the new Town Hall was built incorporating some of the cells.

It stands on the site of the original priory and of the 17th-century manor house that succeeded it. Stonework from both buildings is incorporated into the structure.

The big house set back from the road left of centre is Weeth, and past it the road continues down into the valley of the Cober.

hung from the hook on the extreme end of the wrought iron inn sign.

Looking across Bowling Green to the south side of Oxford Road, these houses are mainly early and later 19th century.

The Green has attractive Georgian houses - note the fine portico and parapet of High House on the left. Went House is in the centre.

Powers were sought in Parliament to establish new residential areas, and many of the squares and avenues of modern- day Cheltenham date back to that period.

This has led many to believe that this is the house from which Charles II so famously escaped after the Battle of Worcester, running out of the back door as his pursuers came in at the front.

This imposing 17th-century mansion was originally designed by Sir Christopher Wren for Henry Guy, and was formerly a home of the Gore family, before being purchased by the Rothschild banking family