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The pub and shop go back hundreds of years. This is a large village with a number of neat houses. It is close to the River Wissey and the main road to London.

Surely everyone's dream of a Peak District cottage, this beautiful little building is situated between Monsal and Cressbrook Dales in the valley of the River Wye.

Ivy-clad Ilam Rock rises dramatically from the banks of the River Dove.

This view looks down on the A6 trunk road, which passes across the centre of the picture, at Whatstandwell, seven miles west of Matlock.

One of Tintagel's most famous buildings, the Old Post Office dates from the 14th century and was used as a post office in the 19th century.

The village of Portloe (meaning 'bay with pool') is one of Cornwall's best-kept secrets - a tiny, rocky fishing cove with narrow streets and the fine 17th-century Lugger Inn.

The stone is from Chilmark, ten miles to the west, and the slender black shafts supporting the arches are of Purbeck marble.The wooden choir seats can be seen in the foreground: to the right is the

The harbour is packed with an assortment of sailing craft, including fishing smacks, brigs and sailing barges.

The photographer is standing on the Mansion House balcony looking directly at the Royal Exchange. Proclamations announcing a new monarch or a dissolution of Parliament are read from the steps.

These two form part of the Cove, which was possibly a shrine, in the northern inner circle of the Avebury henge.

This is the New Town, the railway end of Swindon, quite close to the GWR works and their workers' housing. Note the tram lines, overhead wires and the boy with his hoop.

This church, with its seemingly unfinished tower, is an important example of 12th-century architecture. The round-headed doorways and windows are typically Norman.

The parish church of St Mary stands boldly on its mound. It was rebuilt in 1781, and the tower and spire were rebuilt a hundred years later. Note the huge size of the windows.

This establishment was one of a number of interesting old hostelries still standing. Another was the thatched-roofed Black Horse.

Of dozens of ferries that used to exist between Ross and Chepstow, only two (including this one) survive.

Chapel Street is part of the A4 London to Bath road. Before the M4 motorway, when this picture was taken, this was the main route to the west out of the capital.

A walk down High Street from Westgate to the Buttercross takes the sightseer along one of the most ancient streets in the realm.

The extended garden of the house is now a forecourt for a modern hotel built on the site of the old rock garden, which used to be the kitchen garden with glasshouses.

The barracks blocks were connected by a huge glass roof, the purpose of which was to enable the troops to engage in drill during wet weather.

The barn and outbuilding seen here were demolished in the 1940s as part of the long-overdue restoration programme.

For much of the 1800s and up to the First World War, Farringdon Forge was run by a father and son - John and James Eade.

Once known as Morton Foliot, the parish of Castle Morton runs a long way up to the Malvern Hills. St Gregory's Church dates from the 12th to the 14th centuries.

The late Norman church, with its tower surmounted by a 13th-century shingled spire, was built around 1160 and stands in its small churchyard shaded by a selection of conifer trees.

Before agriculture became mechanised, large numbers of people were employed on the land; in Gloucestershire many of them lived in tied farm cottages such as these.