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There is no hint of a dark secret in this view. But in 1727, a company of players gave a performance in a nearby barn.

The Norman church of St Mary has many Saxon features including a tower with a Rhenish helm roof, which is unique in Britain.

Continuing along the road containing the spa building, this parade of shops is to be found on the right-hand side.

Sedbergh is a pleasant little market town on the southern edge of the lovely Howgill Fells. It grew rapidly in the Victorian era, being on a strategic turnpike road from Kendal to Kirkby Stephen.

Lowestoft, standing on Britain's most easterly point, has fought a long and not always successful battle against the ravages of the North Sea.

Today, the increase in size of vessels has led to a new port being created down-river at Avonmouth. Visiting ships now miss this magnificent suspension bridge.

In 1722 an ecclesiastical court found a certain Lady Horne guilty of slander. Lady Horne happened to be the wife of the Governor, who was none too pleased.

Along with Etal, Ford Castle once formed a second line of defence against the Scots; the front line consisted of the fortresses at Wark, Berwick and Norham.

We are on the slope of the Downs between Eastbourne and Polegate. A nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high.

This is a place of pilgrimage for admirers of Hardy. The church and graveyard have been immortalised in his poems and novels.

King John granted the manor of Rodney Stoke to Sir Osbert Gifford, and it was transferred by marriage to Sir Richard de Rodney. The 17th-century manor farmhouse boasts a six-seater WC.

Pound Street continues south-west from Hiugh Street; it is more cottagey, apart from two grander houses on the left. The street is little altered, apart from more formal pavements and roadway.

The photographer has climbed onto the upper storey of the building next to Marks & Spencer's to look past the 1890s Post Office, the Tudor-style building with the ball finial to its gable on the right,

The King Harry Passage on the Fal at Trelissick was already an ancient crossing when this ferry was providing an important link to St Mawes and the Roseland peninsula.

In the village itself, Gregory Gregory's hand is everywhere, as befits an estate village nestling at the gates of a great country house in its park.

This chapter gives a snapshot of north Lincolnshire in the 1950s, as all the views were taken then: our tour takes us next to Tealby, a pretty village at the western foot of The Wolds.

At the bottom of the slope is the clock tower and George Street, in which is found one of the largest kettles in the country.

On the River Bure, Coltishall is a picturesque place and an important centre for building the famous Norfolk wherry.

strung out along the road, with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford; it possesses an assortment of

The church is a proud, large town church of high architectural quality. Mostly 14th- and 15th-century, it was completed by the addition of the great west tower between 1542 and 1548.

One of Newent's present day tourist attractions is the Shambles, a museum of Victorian life that has its entrance in Church Street, a little way up on the left in this picture.

The red- brick solidity of the houses presents an almost urban face, apart from the small front gardens.

To the south of the lake the Coal Board built a children's swimming pool. It was later made rectangular, but now appears disused and empty of water.

Frith's photographer was outside St Swithun's churchyard, looking through Cannon Square towards the south-east arm of the Market Square and the 18th-century White Hart.