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Holy Trinity church is built of limestone, clunch and flints. We enter the church through a Galilee porch that may have been inspired by the great Galilee porch at Ely cathedral.

A fragment of the medieval Town Wall, this postern gate allowed the townsfolk to obtain drinking water from springs at the Greyfriars.

The ferry queue no longer blocks Fore Street - it takes the road on the right down to a large waiting area by the river.

Royston is another former colliery town north of Barnsley.

A view down the hill towards the fine tower of the Parish Church of St Ia. The first building on the left was a Navigation School at the time.

In recent years, the buildings at the far end of the street have been joined by a section which forms an archway.

Situated on the edge of the Fens, Wilingham is a typical example of the 'shoreline' villages that prospered through their access to better grazing for their sheep.

Spanning the River Parrett, Bridgwater's present Town Bridge was built in 1883, on the site of earlier bridges. Downstream were the docks that at the time handled thousands of ships each year.

This photograph shows the Central Station to the right. Opened to passenger traffic in July 1873, on the Bollington/ Marple route, it was rebuilt in 1960.

There was once a Shirwell Hundred - that ancient administrative division of English counties that was supposed to contain a hundred families or freemen.

Until the 1950s, the wall surrounding Newell House, at the bottom of Greenhill opposite the Crown Hotel, was an accident blackspot and had to be demolished, providing the grassy verge we know today

Biddulph Grange stands amid the magnificent gardens laid out by one of the great 19th century horticulturists, James Bateman.

Some blamed the slowness of firms in meeting the challenge, by not investing in new machinery or responding to new fashions.

Bobbin manufacture for the wool and cotton mills of the north of England was once an important industry in the well-wooded Lake District.

Originally, it was detached from the main building, but was incorporated at some time between 1298 and 1363 when the choir was reconstructed.

The town features slightly in his novel 'Two on a Tower', which was written at that time. Hardy was fond of sitting in the Minster with only the organist and his music for company.

The town is ancient, having been granted borough status in 1290 by the Lord of the Manor Hamon de Massey.

Bobbin manufacture for the wool and cotton mills of the north of England was once an important industry in the well-wooded Lake District.

West Gate, at the top of Winchester's High Street, has stood on the line of the city wall for over 600 years.

The wooden jetty on the left would have been used at high tide. This photograph was taken long before the widening of the promenade.

A church has stood here from at least Norman times, though most of the present building is 15th-century, with a 20th-century family chapel added by Lord Portman.

It is almost impossible to believe that this huge stretch of placid water was hacked out by men seeking fuel for their hearths.

Although nothing remains of it today, there was a St Mary's Church here in the 11th century, which at that time was the most famous building in Oxford.

The George, a former coaching inn, has stood at the junction of the Grindleford Road and the Sheffield Road in Hathersage for about 300 years.