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Largs is a fine clean town, with several large churches. There are a great number of excellent houses for summer visitors, besides handsome and comfortable residential villas in the neighbourhood.

Still alone and flanked by old trees from the carriage drive to Wycombe Abbey, the Town Hall is two years old in this view, a fine building in Queen Anne style.

The town relied on the sea for employment, and it was once an important rival of Holyhead for the Irish ferry.

In the gardens, and to the left of the statue, stands the obelisk erected to the memory of the town's dialect poets Margaret Lahee, Oliver Ormerod, Edwin Waugh, and John Trafford Clegg.

It was not always quiet on the streets of Penistone; until 1910 cattle and sheep were sold in the streets on Thursdays, and many a deal was struck over a pint or two at the Spread Eagle Hotel.

A contemporary guide book extolled Bournemouth's climate: 'it is perhaps most beneficial to invalids during the fall of the year and the early spring, when it will compare favourably with many of the Mediterranean

From then on, visitors flocked to the town to enjoy the benefits of its health-inducing treatments.

In 1795, the Wisbech Canal was cut along the course of the Well Stream; thus providing communication with Ely, Cambridge and the other local towns, via the network of inland waterways that existed at that

Full of quaint old Georgian houses and historic buildings, Arundel has long been an obvious destination for tourists and visitors.

At the top of Lantern Hill (centre right), 100 feet above sea level, stands the Chapel of St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, fittingly enough, and also of scholars.

The Town Hall was built in 1887 in a style described as 'French Renaissance'. The building was used briefly in the 1980s to house the Halton Chemical Industry Museum.

The long stretch of the River Axe between Axmouth and Colyford is an excellent habitat for wildfowl, and birdwatchers often line the riverbank in the early months of the year.

Just beyond the Marine Hotel is the site of the Sidmouth Brine Baths, where visitors to the town could have massage and 'electrical treatment' - probably a low current passed through the

The railway line to Huncoat and Burnley crosses the road here.There was at one time another line down to Rawtenstall, joining what is now the East Lancashire Preserved Railway.As well as having three

The Circus, in the town centre, is where five roads meet. It has the usual mixture of banks and public houses on its corners.

The school was originally located in premises opposite the parish church, but had moved to its present site to the south of the town by 1750; rebuilding began in 1809.

The old city of Hereford was contained by the River Wye to the south and the town walls to the north.

This country town is close to one of the noblest houses in Kent - the Jacobean home of the Sackvilles, Knole. St Nicholas's Church (left) has a 90ft-high tower and turret with a cupola.

At one time, Co-op shops stood in most towns and even some villages, this one belonging to the Society at nearby Carnforth.

Full of quaint old Georgian houses and historic buildings, Arundel has long been an obvious destination for tourists and visitors.

Hoveton is one of the centres of Broadland, and is crowded in the summer months.

The direction sign points to the county town, 10 miles away, and there is the classic confection of village life - church, public house with a wall against which to lean your bicycle, and the bus stop

In 1771 six women arrived in Ilfracombe 'for the benefit of the air, salt water and to spend part of the summer season', and the herring port was on its way to becoming the tourist town it is today; the

The elegant spire and pinnacles of the parish church of St John feature in many views of this town, situated at the foot of Skiddaw in the northern Lake District.