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These large houses stand in an idyllic situation on the cliffs above the Channel overlooking St Margaret's Bay.

Hartfield is at the heart of 'Winnie the Pooh' country - conceived by the author A A Milne. 'Pooh Corner' is in the High Street and all the 'Enchanted Places' are in the parish.

The lychgate stands at the entrance to the churchyard. The church is dedicated to St Osmund and has a 15th-century tower, although most of the fabric is from about 1840.

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

For almost half a century ordinary members of the public paid a penny to gain admission, but in 1891, when the burgh of Hillhead was annexed by the city, the Botanic Gardens were transferred to

During the mid 19th century, proposals were put forward to build a railway line to connect the town with the south of England.

The 1870 view of the bridge is particularly interesting, for it shows the Berkshire bank before the spread of late Victorian developments that brought large houses and villas to the Berkshire hillside

The chancel arch was moved in the 19th century to connect the chancel and the organ chamber.

Roslin Chapel was built by Sir William Sinclair, third Earl of Orkney in 1446. It is famed for a carved pillar featuring entwined ribbands.

There is not a breath of wind, so the drainage mill is motionless and the sailing boats are becalmed on the Ant, which is little more than a narrow stream at this point.

The pair of wooden houses were called Montpelier in 1885; the next building is of 1889, and the building partly hidden by trees was Harland House in 1885.

Although the busy A24 now thunders past the old forge at the foot of Byttom Hill, the building is still clearly recognisable, although now expanded into a chic Italian restaurant named Frascati, and with

Formerly Garbrand Hall, this two-storied, five-bayed stuccoed house stands at the centre of the village, and was built on a Tudor site around 1775.

A splendid journey awaits travellers across the Moors on the preserved railway line from Pickering to Grosmont.

Little has changed in this view of the brook running through the estate village. On the left, the old bakery is now augmented by a tea room.

At the bottom of Maidstone High Street both the Queen's Head public house, on the left, and the Rose and Crown Hotel across the road have gone; the trolleybuses also went in 1966.

Caddell's Printing Office at number 1, King Street, just visible on the extreme left and next door to the Jackson Brothers' drapery store, was founded by John Samuel Caddell, a stationer, bookbinder,

St Michael's parish church is north of the High Street, and a reminder of a pre- Rothschild era for the village, although the chancel was restored at his expense in 1877.

It is no surprise that Stanton features on chocolate box lids, as it is everyone's idea of how a Cotswold village should look.

We are looking south-eastwards from the Yetminster road towards the mediaeval Hamstone cross in a triangle of cobbles (centre), with roads at the junction signed to Sherborne (left) and Chetnole (right

The original timber building, dating from c1580, has two gables; the brick extension to the right is 19th-century.

Lumley Avenue, with its chestnut trees and wide verges and roadway, is typical of the streets comprising the original grid layout of the Earl of Scarbrough's 1870s town plan.

A hint of the heavily-wooded banks of the Brun can be seen on the left of this picture.

Built during the reign of Elizabeth I, Dockacre House is the oldest home in Launceston.