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The 17th-century building was originally four separate houses.

The present castle is a battlemented house dating from around 1800, and the seat of the Wharton family. It was the birthplace of Commander Wild, an Antarctic explorer.

The village of mellow Victorian and Edwardian houses has not changed much since this photograph was taken.

Opposite is the equally ancient Old Cross Daggers public house, one of the oldest buildings in the village.

The railway behind the house is now electrified.

Close to the quays at Poole is the 18th-century harbour office, once the Old Town House, a club for ships' captains.

Set in an area of Victorian factory housing, these streets of modest but pleasing terraces are now part of a Conservation Area.

Over a century later, the Pavilion Gardens still provide the nucleus of the town's leisure activities, with Frank Matcham's beautifully-restored Opera House close by.

Whatstandwell gets its strange name from Walter Stonewell, a 14th-century resident, whose house was next to the former ford which crossed the river here.

Demolished in 1984, it once stood opposite the market house, used for the sale of locally made Cheddar and Caerphilly cheese. Outside was a street market selling clothes, furniture and food.

The new Old Neptune was a conversion of two cottages; at the time of this photograph it was a local brewer's Tomson & Wotton's house.

Although only visible from its sign in this photograph, the Green Man is a magnificent timbered public house.

The houses to the left are now painted white.

This grand war memorial by Henry Fehr was erected in 1923 on a site formed by the demolition of a number of houses at the east end of High Street, which visually linked the street to East Hill – a

Kirkstall was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains Abbey. Building work was completed by 1175 and iron forging began in 1200.

On the left is the Market House, and nearby is the Red Lion.

Behind the library are examples of the town's modest turn-of the-century housing stock.

The plain red brick house is, however, a veritable gem, built around 1780 and prominent towards the left of the photograph.

A huge community, both military and trading, grew around the naval yards with thousands of homes to cater for dockworkers and public houses in which to entertain shorebound sailors.

The great house belonged originally to the de Ribbesfords. In the 17th century, Charles I gave it to the three Herbert brothers, one of whom was George Herbert the poet.

The 17th-century Old Market House at Winster was the first property to be acquired by the National Trust in the Peak District, in 1906.

The centre of the village is located around the White Horse public house (centre right).

Beyond the trees is the River Avon, and the houses in the distance are in Bristol Street and part of Burnivale.

Plaques on the railings list the fallen of the Second World War, when much of Barrow's housing was demolished or damaged.