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It is interesting to wonder whether the owner of the delivery van parked outside the New Inn was dropping off goods, or indulging in a pint of the excellent local cider?

Portland, 'The Gibraltar of Wessex', as Thomas Hardy called it, is not an island but a peninsula.

The horizontal plume of smoke from the funnel of the ship moored off Sun Pier suggests that the glass shelter on the right might have offered welcome protection from an off- shore breeze

Built of red sandstone, St John's has links with Queen Isabella (1292-1358) and the Guild of St John Baptist (founded 1342).

This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey

Some of the sandstone cottages in the village of Swainby are still known as the Miners' Cottages, remembering the village's brief spell as an iron mining centre during the 19th century.

This pond is a remnant of the castle moat, which was reshaped in 1784.

Davey Place was formed in 1812 to link the cattle market (in Castle Meadow in front of the castle) with the main market place, butting through the yard of the King's Head.

The Basildon Development Corporation aimed at providing a wide range of different types of housing—both for visual reasons, and also to attract residents from different income-groups.

Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.

King George III put Mudeford on the map when he visited the then tiny village in 1803.

A great abbey, built by Orc, a Danish servant of King Canute, superseded a Saxon church here. The Abbey thrived for 500 years until its destruction at the time of the Reformation.

Inside the church at Bere Regis are the grand tombs of the Turberville family, immortalised as the D'Urbervilles in Thomas Hardy's novel.

It was here, on rough sandy banks, that the St Ives pilchard fishing boats of the 19th century were drawn up clear of the beach. St Ives Station can be seen directly behind the boy in the foreground.

Behind the right hand side of the chute can be seen the central section of the Maxim Flying Machine ride which was under construction.

This somewhat isolated hotel near Cardigan was built to provide visitors with magnificent views of the sea and Cardigan Island, where seals and porpoises are to be seen frequently.

Although the register dates from around 1560, the beautiful interior of the church owes much to restoration carried out in the mid-1800s.

Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.

Here we have another view of North Landing, showing the brick-built lifeboat house.

On May Day morning a famous Oxford tradition is upheld when the dons and the Magdalen College choristers gather at the top of the Perpendicular bell tower to sing a Latin hymn.

The Royal Pier, at the eastern end of Mayflower Park, was opened in 1833 and for many years was the largest in the south of England.

Jane Austen visited the town and mentioned it in one of her novels, while Charles Dickens chose it as the birthplace of his eponymous hero in 'Nicholas Nickleby'.

This area was once known at St Andrews Gardens; after the Prince and Princess of Wales, later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, opened Alexandra Park, the park was later renamed in honour

This is probably the most beautiful of all Leicestershire churches, floating here above the trees and grassland, its magnificent late 15th-century tower dominating the market place and the south side of