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Croston lies on the banks of the River Yarrow, 10 miles from Preston. Cobbled Church Street leads to the church of St Michael and All Angels - the parish boundaries once extended to Chorley.

The imposing early 19th-century building to the right is timber-framed, with the ground floor of the house imitating stone blocks; the shop front has fluted Ionic pilasters.

The church is surrounded by the parkland of Woolverstone Hall. The exterior looks unusual because the church was rebuilt three times by the Berners family between 1830 and 1890.

This plainer room is one occupied by Queen Victoria when she stayed at Thoresby, enjoying the lavish hospitality of Earl Manvers.

The first church to stand on this site was also the focal point of the Viking settlement in the 10th century.

This large and imposing building complete with clock tower, built in something of a Victorian neo-Gothic style, was home to the Town Council and associated bodies.

Naworth Castle, about two miles east of Brampton, is the family home of the Howards, Earls of Carlisle.

Lying just to the north of Chilham is this small and curiously named hamlet where, until the beginning of the 20th century, an annual race was staged between two village youths and two maidens for a

The present cathedral was begun in 1084 as the church of a Benedictine Priory by Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester since 1062. Wulfstan was a former ally of King Harold, and also his spiritual guide.

A selection of buses and the odd tram occupy one of the four gates that surround the clock tower.

Six miles from Durham and twelve miles from Darlington, Ferryhill was only a hamlet until the development of Dean & Chapter Colliery.

This photograph was taken from the junction of the High Street with Bridge Street. The dominant buildings are of the early 1900s, complete with a fine set of chimney stacks.

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

Bournemouth Pier stands above the original mouth of the River Bourne. Its construction marked the town's commitment to its role as a resort.

It looks like a hot day, and a stop for light refreshment merely continues a centuries-old tradition dating here from the time of the Civil War.

The tiny and isolated village of Keld stands high up in Swaledale (1100ft), surrounded by beautiful walking country; it is a favourite with lovers of the wild northern dales.

Positioned in the playing field of the school in Wharf Lane, our photographer looks towards the school buildings erected in 1878 in approved Gothic style.

The hotel, which opened in 1833, was built to serve the growing numbers of visitors to the natural spring in its grounds, whose waters were believed to be 'very efficacious in several diseases

Situated to the south of Alcester on the Midland Railway line, Broom railway station was the interchange for a cross-country route linking up with the Midland main line from Rugby to Bedford.

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet

is over an open common of 52 acres, with nine holes 2,750 yards in length'.

It was this canal, financed by the Duke of Bridgewater and built in 1761 by James Brindley, that was to bring about a complete change in the transportation of industrial materials and manufactured goods

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

The passengers' sense of quiet contentment is almost tangible as this packed pleasure boat rounds the harbour wall, and heads for the disembarkation point, having cut safely inside the outward-bound