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Zenon Vantini, the first manager of the North Euston Hotel, backed by the Rev John St Vincent Beechey, put forward the idea of a boarding school for boys, and by 1904 the school was flourishing, despite

Beyond the war memorial in this view we glimpse the spire of the church of St John the Baptist, where during the Civil War some 340 troops from the Parliamentarian army were held prisoner.

Chenies, a mile downstream from Latimer, takes its name from the Cheyne family who held the manor from the 13th century until the 16th century when it passed, through the marriage in 1526

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

This sizeable village nestles in a valley close to two notable landmarks: Lewesdon Hill (894 feet) and Pilsdon Pen, at 909 feet, the highest hill in Dorset.

'This England', as Mark Twain described 'that beauty which is England alone - it has no duplicate'.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

When Richard I was away fighting in the Third Crusade, the Mount was seized for John by Henry de Pomeroy, though it was subsequently retaken by Richard, who stationed a permanent garrison here.

In 1895 Elder Dempster had introduced an Avonmouth-Quebec-Montreal summer service, with winter sailings calling at Halifax and St John's, New Brunswick.

The church of St John the Baptist dominates this readily-recognisable street scene on the crown of the hill.

The Guild of St. Mary was founded in 1218 to protect privileges granted to Chesterfield by King John.

The building with the bellcote beyond, now St John's Ambulance Brigade, was built in about 1910 and has recently been shortened, thus exposing more of the gable of No 11 beyond.

The bank on the left has its long frontage to St Paul's Square, and is now a Ladbroke's betting shop.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

The church of St John the Baptist is mainly 13th-century and has a wood-shingled broach spire. The village has many historic houses.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

Rebuilt in 1867 by John Loughborough Pearson, the architect of the eastern extension of Wakefield Cathedral, the parish church of St Helen looks down on the town's market place.

The church of St Nicholas which dominates this view was redesigned in 1863 by Anthony Salvin.

Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

After his trial for treason at Northampton in 1164, Thomas à Beckett escaped from St Andrew's Priory.

Firmly back in Bedfordshire and heading south, our route passes through Blunham, a most attractive village, where the poet John Donne was rector from 1622 until his death in 1632, although he was also

Buckinghamshire's County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s. It was given a more ornate entrance building in the 1860s, including the tower.

This is the splendid 12th-century church of St Michael and All Angels with its Norman arches.