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Simon de Montfort's army lay here the night before the Battle of Lewes in 1264. The area was made notorious by the 'Piltdown Man' fake archaeological discov- eries in the 1910s.

Glasson Dock Bridge connects the two halves of the village.

Back on the main road, this is the real centre of the modern village; there is a good range of shops and pubs, and the school, Herstmonceux Church of England Primary School, lies behind the fence on

Captioned by Frith in the 1950s 'A Pretty Spot', this view looks north across a footbridge over a stream towards the eastern end of the village.

As we look southwards from the Hele stone, through the middle arch, we can see the tallest stone of the inner horseshoes of trilithons.

The town of Winsford did not exist until the Weaver River was canalised in 1731 - this was needed to link the local salt fields with the Mersey River.

There is a substantial amount of Victorian development seen in this view of the town from the west, looking across Brooklands Park and the new cemetery on Queens Road with its chapel.

During 1955-57 the company spent £36 million on doubling car production, excavating over 1.5 million tons of chalk and clay from the Chilterns to accommodate 1.6 million square feet of building

Inverary Castle, the 18th-century home of the Dukes of Argyll, was designed by Roger Morris and Robert Mylne and completed in about 1780.

The town of Oban is only a little more than 200 years old. It owes its origins to the establishing of a fishing station by the government Fishery Board in 1786.

St Mary Street is one of the city's main thoroughfares, where shoppers and visitors could find the finest hotels, theatres and department stores, all built in a grandiose manner.

'The Queen of Welsh resorts', Llandudno preserves much of its Victorian flavour, with its sweeping promenade faced by numerous hotels, its expanse of sands between the headlands of the Great and Little

Standing on rising ground on the west bank of the River Gwendraeth, Kidwelly and its fortified town were founded by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury during the reign of Henry I.

The construction of a substantial sea wall, seen here in section to the right, led to Exmouth's prosperity as a seaside resort.

In 1768, Sir Francis Blake Delaval, canvassing for election as MP, and his agent Kellynge invited the Mayor and Corporation and the Colonel and Officers of a local billet to a grand dinner athte George

Simon de Montfort's army lay here the night before the Battle of Lewes in 1264. The area was made notorious by the 'Piltdown Man' fake archaeological discoveries in the 1910s.

High Street 1918 A view of Seaview's High Street during the final summer of the First World War.The lady on the right demonstrates the changing fashions caused by the shortage of materials.

Also known as the Flimston or Elegug Stacks (Elegug is derived from the Welsh word for guillemot), these two massive pillars are comprised of limestone.

On the right of this photograph can be seen Swanage Pier, built originally to facilitate the steamer trade to neighbouring resorts and the shipment of the much-prized Purbeck stone.

The Globe at Swanage was carved from a great mass of stone, ten feet in diameter and forty tons in weight.

Lying between Stroud and Nailsworth, the parish includes the villages of North and South Woodchester.

A wide range of architectural periods is represented in Astwood Bank, though Victorian buildings are particularly numerous. The 1960s brought a number of new developments, of which this is typical.

Denny End is named after the abbey that was re-sited in 1342 from the present church to a spur of land linked to Waterbeach by a causeway.

The old market cross still stands by the gate to the parish church of St Alkelda at Giggleswick, in the heart of Craven limestone country.