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This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced.

A rucksack-clad rambler (left) admires Abbot Huby's magnificent north tower at Fountains Abbey, in the valley of the River Skell near Ripon.

Some of the windows in St Andrew's have been replaced by others designed by the sculptor and artist Henry Moore, who lived at nearby Hoglands in Perry Green.

For a very built-up area, Dudley has always had a number of green, open spaces, including the Civic Gardens, situated between Priory Road and The Broadway, opposite the Council House.

Bossington, at the foot of Bossington Hill and on a loop road from the A39, merges with the hamlet of Lynch; it is a pretty village, with whitewashed sandstone rubble houses.

The buildings are shaped here to follow the curve of the road.

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

The Town Hall and the Market Hall stand out at the centre; the large building to the right of the Market Hall is Samuel H Facey & Son's brewery, which opened in 1862.

Bude's canal, built in 1823, was something of an oddity.

During the inter-war years the council tried to alleviate the high rate of unemployment and set up a number of public works schemes.

It is notable for its collection of grotesque gargoyles, and for two carved capitals which are derived from the stories of Reynard the Fox; appropriate in Cottesmore country.

This cobbled street is one of the best known in this compact town, which preserves its medieval street plan almost intact.

Some of the flavour of the old village remains in this view today, which looks eastwards along Broadwater Street East.

This is a wonderful piece of social history from the 1950s caught on film.

Houses had been built into the central arches of the west front by at least the 1660s.

The ferry originated for the use of monks from the priory, to cross to their farmland on the west bank.

A real mixture of shipping make up this photograph of Weston Point Docks.

The village of Quernmore is three miles south-east of Lancaster.

Sited away from the city centre in the last remaining enclave of 18th-century and earlier buildings, the Cathedral with its fine broach spire of 1862 would hardly wring an awed gasp from even the most

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester and to the west of the busy A6.

Lickey village is an unremarkable sort of place, but the name is famous among railway buffs because the two-mile Lickey Incline (between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green) is, almost incredibly, the steepest

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

East of the village, the Shelford Road climbs on to the red sandstone hills, which are undercut by the River Trent to form river cliffs.

This private estate was developed in 1833 by the Wakefield solicitor and Clerk of Barnsley Canal Company Thomas Foljambe (1775-1851), part of a larger scheme to build a number of grand