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Ascending the hill into the distance are some of the descendants of the trees of ancient Baram Wood.

The word 'fold' means an enclosure of land for animals, and 'Chadynge`s fold' may well date back to the Saxon period.

Lodge Hill was then a bare hill, but the Baron imported vast numbers of mature trees to give it its present wooded character; teams of horses toiled from far and wide to haul the trees to their destination

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

This view from Grip Wood shows the rear of the Tithe Barn, which defines the southern edge of Barton Manor Farm.

Not long after, the enthusiastic wood-carving cleric Canon Wilson adorned the interior with much of his own work.

Croxley Green lies east of the River Chess, separated from Rickmansworth by the open space of Rickmansworth Park and Croxley Hall's woods.

On the panel directly beneath the organ can be seen the intricate wood carving of flutes and violins. Edmund Burke was baptised here, and Robert Emmett is said to be buried in the churchyard.

This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.

influential local landowners, and their emblem was the Pelham Buckle; cast iron milestones in the area have the Pelham Buckle carved on them.The village is noted for trug manufacture at a local steamed wood

In this typically well-wooded river scene, we can see lavish use of stone in walls and bridge that could stand for centuries.

Situated between the River Thames and Quarry Woods, made famous in Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', Bisham is one of Berkshire's most historic villages.

The stone platform on the left has a memorial plaque on it to the Misses Pilkington, whose efforts in the 1940s ensured the Wizard Woods were saved from development and handed over to the National

This is the centre of this secluded little hamlet tucked away on the north side of Hurt Wood, with its modest stone war memorial isolated on a triangular green, opposite the village shop and post office

Barclays Bank (next to Trott's) arrived in Daventry in the 1960s to replace Wood Bros, wine and spirit merchants.

Lucy Maria Wood Boston, born in December 1892, bought the building in 1939 and spent two years restoring it.

St John's benefited from a number of bequests, including a weekly load of wood; this was negotiated by Roger de Montalt, Earl of Chester, when he sold off his lordship rights in the Earl's Half to

Situated between the River Thames and Quarry Woods, made famous in Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', Bisham is one of Berkshire's most historic villages.

His grave, in St Peter's, Frimley, contains a cross made up of wood from that ship.

This view was taken at the crossroads of Woodfield Road, Barnett Wood Lane and Craddocks Parade, the 1930s three- storey flats over shops.

Warehouses blossomed here from early days, and goods (including wool, wood, coal and other commodities) were conveyed in flat-bottomed trows. Bewdley Rowing Club was on Severnside North.

Webber's Post 1923 From near Luccombe the road climbs through Horner Woods to Webber's Post on Luccombe Hill and onto the wildest parts of Exmoor.

A station was built here in the 1890s for the Cranbrook & Paddock Wood Railway.

Temple Newsam was bought by Leeds Corporation in 1922 from Edward Wood, the future Lord Halifax.