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westwards up West Street to the Town Hall (left of centre), a Ford Model T passes the shops of Best, Warren and Spiller (right).

This ancient and beautiful village dates back to Saxon times. The beacon on Pendle Hill is said to be Saxon, and the field known as Kirkacre was in existence when Alfred the Saxon was chieftain.

Bashall Eaves stands on the banks of the river Hodder in the parish of Mitton.

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

One of Gloucester's best-known features is the ingenious clock that stands at first floor level above G A Baker & Sons in Southgate Street.

Glasgow boasts one of the world's finest municipal collections of art, now housed at Kelvingrove.

Whilst the open fields still surrounded Loughborough the town could not expand; later they were enclosed by law and the pattern of small fields emerged.

It was only a mile away that George Fox, the Quaker, stood on the 'nick' of Pendle in 1652 and declared himself moved to start a religious order, the Society of Friends.

At the top of the High Street stands this magnificent three-storey residence built in 1798 for the merchant Samuel Rolles, indicative of the wealth which came to the town in the 18th century

On the left, Marks and Spencer established a bazaar in 1932, later enlarging and heightening the building several times. The Co-op Bakery and Elite Café (now Saxone) has its awnings out.

The most notorious abbot of Furness Abbey was undoubtedly Alexander Banks. One William Case, on behalf of the people of Sellergarth, sued him in court in 1516.

The Devil's Arrows is nowadays composed of three stones. They stand in North Yorkshire, close to the A1: it is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the county.

Dating from the 1500s (and possibly earlier), the half- timbered building on the left fronting both the High Street and Hickmans Lane has had a chequered history.

It is difficult to imagine from this idyllic scene, including the parish church of St Mary on the hillside (right), that Tintern was once heavily industrialised.

One of the first known owners of the property was a member of the Brocke family by the name of Ayre. The earliest boundary was north of the stream known now as the Pip Brook.

In 1651, Sir Richard Weston of nearby Sutton Place embarked on his great enterprise to create the Wey Navigation and make the river commercially navigable from Guildford to the Thames, by straightening

In the foreground we see the roof of Bury House and its stables at the western end of The Bury.

The etching on the windows, 'Magistrates Room' and 'Solicitors Room', reminds us that the Magistrates' Courts were also housed here for many years.

Barton-upon-Humber was once a rival to the port of Kingston upon Hull on the other side of the river Humber, but it is now a much smaller settlement, and the Market Place confirms that most definitely.

The first brothers of the establishment came directly from Normandy. The remains to be seen today actually date from the abbey's rebuilding in the course of the 13th to the 15th centuries.

The roundabout is situated at the crossing of the Icknield Way (the A505) and the A10.

Hayling is linked to the mainland by a concrete road bridge that opened in 1956, replacing the wooden toll bridge.

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

In the medieval manorial rolls there are references to ancient roads and lanes that carry the same names today.