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Covering nearly eight acres of ground, it was constructed to Sir Charles Barry's design, although its intricate ornament and detailing were conceived and wrought by that master of Victorian Gothic

The river runs alongside the right of the churchyard.

Before the arrival of the railway, only eight years before this picture was taken, the sense of isolation must have been even greater.

Covering nearly eight acres of ground, it was constructed to Sir Charles Barry’s design, although its intricate ornament and detailing were conceived and wrought by that master of Victorian Gothic

Two women stand by the wall outside the Eight Bells with its Benskins board.

They include an eight- sided wood-panelled font and a 13th-century chest with triple locks.

The town lies at the foot of an eight hundred feet hill with gradients in some streets of 1 in 4. This shelter aids the growth of luxuriant vegetation in the steep gardens.

The object of Eights Week is for each crew to move up one place in a complex table of positions maintained from year to year.

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.The stones tend to be larger at one end of the beach than the other.

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.

The jumble of gables and chimneys on the right of the street represents a 17th-century house; opposite it is the entrance to Chichele College, founded by Archbishop Chichele in 1422.

This service was so profitable that it was soon extended to Runcorn - the journey from Top Locks to Manchester took about eight hours.

A gap of just eight years after photo number L130223 sees this junction now dominated not by horses but by motor cars and buses. The number 11 bus still passes this point.

With their barrack buildings in the background, and eight tents pitched alongside the parade ground, the officers and men of the Royal West Surrey regiment march off parade.

During the Civil War it was garrisoned by Royalist troops, but it fell in August 1643 after a siege lasting eight weeks.

Preston also had a covered market, so this busy scene could be the yearly Pot Market, which took place in the square for eight days.

The church has a 16th-century crenellated tower with gargoyles and low pinnacles, a clock and a peal of eight bells.

Eight miles south of Hornsea, Aldbrough is a more genteel resort about a mile inland - although coastal erosion shortens this distance each year.

Opened in October 1854, the park covered around sixteen acres, eight of which comprised the old Town Field; the remainder was purchased from an adjoining estate.

A Victorian guidebook noted that 'the coach excursionist will be saved the trouble of choosing his quarters, as the coaches usually set him down at the Carisbrooke Castle or the Eight Bells'.

An anker was eight and a half gallons, so the haul represented around 5,500 bottles - and that was not considered a large cargo!

In AD972 Edgar engaged in a set piece of power politics at Chester, when he was rowed in state along the Dee by eight Celtic kings and chieftains.

From the vantage point of Magdalen College belfry we look westwards along the High Street towards some of the wondrous 'dreaming spires', including the 14th-century spire of St Mary's Church; to its right

Every day for eight hours he dies, gives up a slice of his life and buries himself'.