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Founded in 1132, Fountains was given large tracts of land on which to raise sheep.

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

Nowadays its popular, quiet tree-fringed length carries canal boats refurbished for tourists. Richard Turner, one of the temperance leaders, was born in Bilsborrow.

The Council Offices are on the right, bearing a datestone of 1913. Before that date, meetings of the Garstang Rural District Council were held at the King's Arms Hotel.

A three-storey pier jetty enabled passengers to embark or disembark at all stages of the tide when the pleasure steamer 'Winnie' made trips to Southport.

This well-known manor house was built by Sir William Fermor during the reign of Henry VII. Other families who lived here were the Calthorpes and Le Stranges.

To this day, Hurstbourne Tarrant remains the quintessential English village.

Although somewhat overshadowed by Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the beautifully proportioned Chirk Aqueduct ranks as a major work in its own right.

On the village green, the memorial is mounted on to the pedestal of an old cross. The church of St Cuthbert is dedicated to that saint as he is thought to have stayed in the hamlet.

Behind the lychgate at the end of Manor Road rises the flint and stone tower of Holy Trinity parish church.

The Coach and Horses is one of Wimborne's oldest pubs, and the only one to have retained its thatched roof to this day.

This hamlet is to the south of Boxford and separated from it since 1975 by the bypass.

Children play on the beach and collect flotsam from the tide line while their parents sit beside windbreaks. The roof on the fish palace has now almost completely gone.

These ships are topsail schooners and what might be an inside or outside Tamar barge at Calstock, 17 miles up-river from the sea.

'A picturebook castle' is how the castle at Hornby has been described. Painted by the artist Turner, it became famous and was much visited.

One of the most memorable images in the entire Frith archive, this intimate shot of the Cobb wall was inspired by Jane Austen and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

James Hargreaves was connected with Robert Peel through helping him to introduce mechanical processes at Brookside Mill, so it was appropriate that the James Hargreaves memorial should be

The 'bus station next to the library and museum has moved – and so has the library. The privet fence around the green has gone, and the grass has been replaced.

The network of canals developed mainly in the 18th century before the arrival of the railway.

The bridge across the Ouse at St Ives was built in medieval times.

The attractive stone built village stands on high undulating ground some four miles north-east of Oakham.

Whilst the High Street is a shadow of its former self, the Rose & Crown Hotel, located at the junction with the Market Place, is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance, with its current owners investing

The 'bus station next to the library and museum has moved – and so has the library. The privet fence around the green has gone, and the grass has been replaced.

Though it passes through an industrial landscape, this canal has many quiet rural stretches where the narrow boats chug along under a dense canopy of green.