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This mock-Tudor building was the Dunes Guesthouse, built in 1914 as part of a model middle-class seaside resort, which was designed by Glencain Stuart Ogilvie between 1910 and 1928.

This is a good study of the stark angularity favoured by 1960s architects. The children's clothing, too, is characteristic of the time.

Here we see a variety of village houses with a bicycle shop selling Raleigh bicycles, inner tubes and puncture kits. At the end of the street is the great medieval hall house, Emplins.

The Ferryboat Inn was a favourite haunt of fishermen; the oldest part of the inn is six hundred years old. There is a large inglenook hearth were there is always a fire.

Stoborough straddles the high road between Wareham and Corfe on the northern edge of the Isle of Purbeck.

This institution, originally founded in 1867 as an asylum for pauper lunatics, lies to the north of the Basingstoke Canal and the main railway line.

Located at the western end of the South Downs, Buriton captures the essence of the traditional English village. The pond, the pub and the church are all here.

However, the war memorial remains on the village green as a tribute to those who died in both the major wars of the 20th century.

The massive limestone buttresses of Shining Cliff look down on the junction of Middleton Dale with the road to Eyam on the left of the photograph.

Westgate is one of the most prominent landmarks in Winchester.

Westgate is one of the most prominent landmarks in Winchester.

The Seymour Hotel was built by the 11th Duke of Somerset, who also built the church of St John in Bridgetown.

Every building in this photograph was built in the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria, as the railway station of 1858/9 brought about the establishment of the village of Liss, sometimes called

Commemorating those serving members of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment who gave their lives during the First and Second World Wars, and from 1945 to 1958, the Memorial consists of a small rotunda

Originally known as Langley House, this was the home of Robert Henty, brother of G A Henty and of Lord Kindersley, Director of the Bank of England.

At the end of the 19th century, this was a boom town for lead mining. High on the valley side, old workings can still be seen.

Park Lane, once the desolate by-road known as Tiburn Lane, was a refined street of palatial mansions enjoying expansive vistas of the Park.

The short battlemented tower adorns an attractive group of 18th- and 19th-century houses at the south-eastern end of the village.

Washington is on the main London to Worthing Road at the foot of the Downs.

Set at the mouth of the River Conway, or Conwy, this mediaeval walled town with its famous castle, one of Edward I's 'iron ring' around Wales, is still remarkably self-contained.

Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing rights

Among its many frequenters none was fonder of this riverside resort than Thomas Hook, who penned 'The Song of the Shirt'.

Simultaneous construction of the castle and town wall began in the summer of 1283. The wall, which enclosed the medieval borough, is 800 yds long with eight towers and two twin-towered gateways.

St Swithun's Parish Church at Allington, now in the north-west corner of the extended Bridport borough, was consecrated in 1827 to replace the original medieval church to the west of the Vicarage, in what