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Edward Gibbon, the historian who wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', lived at the Manor House as a child.

This view of the interior clearly shows the quality of the misericords on the choir stalls to both left and right. Beautiful carving is a feature of this church.

Whereas Harrow School occupies buildings spread out along the main village streets, Uppingham takes on the qualities of a university, being, in the main, laid out around quadrangles.

Two coped stones with round ends, and fragments of crosses from the 9th century, can be found at the west end of the north aisle.

The finest prospect of Barry's Palace of Westminster is to be enjoyed from the river, where the facade extends to a length of almost a thousand feet.The strong vertical detailing was clearly intended

The burial place of David II, James II and James V, and described as being one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical architecture in Scotland, Holyrood Chapel was sacked during the revolution of 1688

For hundreds of years, the names of Robin Hood and Nottingham have been inseparably linked, yet it was not until 1952, through the generosity of Nottingham businessman Philip Clay, that the city acquired

Looking northwards, we can see a good selection of 18th- century architecture; perhaps the most attractive is St Edward's House (next to the three-storey hotel) with Corinthian-topped

The industrial and commercial parts of the town co-existed in a very confined space. The mill chimneys were an ever-present reminder of the source of the family's wagepacket.

The death of Henry I in 1135 saw England torn apart by civil war.

Here we have a splendidly detailed view of Godalming's High Street towards the end of the Victorian era.

Punting on the river in pre-war days. Near here is Conyngham Hall, now a conference centre, but once the home of the toffee maker from Halifax, Lord Macintosh.

With blissful symmetry the horizon here is occupied by Cardiff Castle - the iconic home of the Bute family, facilitators of the modern city and much of its wealth.

The Devil’s Arrows is nowadays composed of three stones. They stand in North Yorkshire, close to the A1: it is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the county.

Towards the north-west lies the mound of Beacon Hill. The earliest origins of Loughborough may be here.

Slater's Directory of 1876 lists this lovely Tudor mansion as Ferns Hall; it was supposed to date from 1557, but the earliest visible datestone over the porch is of 1696.

Thorpe is two miles east of Norwich; it became a popular spot for Sunday outings from the mid 19th century, despite the disapproval of some church authorities in the city.

Its size indicates the former status of the produce belonging to the church that was stored there, harvested from land once owned by the bishopric of Worcester.

One of the most important cross- village links, Gores Lane appears under one guise or another on all the oldest maps of Formby.

Here we are reminded that before the building of the bus station in Merrywalks, buses waited at several locations in the town.

The tranquil village of Whitwell lies directly under the flightpath of aircraft landing at Luton Airport.

Laindon took its name from the River Lyge, a lost tributary of the River Crouch, which rose from the hill on which St Nicholas's Church stands and is responsible for the extreme dampness of the

The origins of the Pierrots go back to the London success of the mime play 'L'Enfant Prodigue', staged in 1891, and they remained in vogue right up to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Duke Bar is on the outskirts of Burnley. The Duke of York public house can be seen in the centre of our picture.