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GLASTONBURY, with its mysterious and atmospheric tor, is still a place of legends.

An attractive garden borders the river in front of the Swan Hotel. Since 1965 an extension to the hotel has replaced the low building beside the thatched house.

This photograph, taken from the tower of the Town Hall, looks down past the formal square to the buildings of Bishop Street, which include the reference library by Edward Burgess of 1904 and the former

Broadmead runs between Union Street and Penn Street, and was a part of the regeneration of the city centre following the destruction of the Second World War.

A child gazes wistfully into the tranquil waters of the River Anton, a tributary of the Test, which rises to the north of Andover and runs through the heart of the town.

A magnificent view of the 68ft high nave at Christchurch. On the north side the walls are about two feet out of true because of subsidence and the collapse of the south walls in 1569.

Generally regarded as the prettiest village in Surrey, this delightful picture of two small girls beneath the venerable oak trees, against a backdrop of some of the picturesque cottages at the heart of

Low Petergate is one of the many narrow side-streets which lead up towards the towers of York Minster, seen in the centre background.

A 20th-century means of producing power shares the banks of the Orwell with vessels which harness one of the oldest forms of power.

Many of the original buildings of Winchester College remain, and are still used by today's pupils. The college chapel was originally consecrated around the year 1394.

However, the Charter of the Lord Protector Cromwell, granted 26 February 1656, was to be of importance to the development of the town.

Much of the county is still largely agricultural. Along the rivers and the shoreline, there are still miles of sparsely-inhabited wilderness.

Time stands still in this peaceful view of the village; but on 12 March 1470, the Battle of Loscote Field, one of many during the Wars of the Roses, was fought in the parish.

Unfortunately the tiny saddleback tower of the old church was now seriously out of proportion to the new, larger church.

Gunpowder Gunpowder, which was invented during the first half of the 14th century, is a mixture of potassium nitrate (saltpetre), charcoal, and sulphur in a ratio of 75:15:10.

This broad open space at the heart of the city is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.

The first official record of a petition for a navigation light appears in the Parliamentary Papers of the Lords of the Privy Council for Trade, written during the reign of William III and Queen

Most of the islanders at that time were extremely poor, and like the inhabitants of other coastal areas saw smuggling as a way of augmenting their poverty-stricken existence.

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

Fortrose stands on the Black Isle overlooking the inner Moray Firth. The ruined cathedral dates from the reign of David I.

The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.

The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.

The Hospital of the Order of St John the Baptist is situated at the junction of the Lower High Street and St John`s Street and by St John`s Bridge.

This section is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.