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Weymouth owes its origins as a favourite resort to the patronage of George III and of the rest of fashionable Georgian society, who travelled to the town to take up the new 'cure' of sea bathing.

The estuary of the Camel is one of Cornwall's greatest natural features, fringed with golden sands and surrounded by rolling farmland.

The church, dedicated in 1124 to St Kyneburga, the third of four daughters of Peada, King of Mercia and founder of the abbey at Peterborough, stands on a slight rise overlooking the village of Castor and

The house was silent and no one seemed to be about … It was one of the loveliest mornings that ever dawned upon this world … The clear pure crisp air of the early morning blew fresh and exhilarating

Waterhouse favoured the use of contrasting red brick and terracotta; as well as using it at Hutton Hall, he used it on his other two buildings in Guisborough, the Grammar School and Overbeck, a private

This photograph shows part of a hypocaust (underfloor heating) system and the remains of mosaic floors.

The Downs, like Horton and the common, were now part of London's Green Belt, and no further development would take place on them.

By the beginning of the 17th century the centre of Glasgow had shifted south, to the foot of the High Street where it joined the Saltmarket.

Brendon nestles in the valley of the East Lyn River, and to the south is the wild expanse of Brendon Common, part of the plateau of Exmoor.

This photograph gives an excellent view of the top of one of the stairways leading to Chester's famous Rows (in the bottom right corner of the photograph).

The parish church of Brynmawr is the church of St Mary the Virgin, and it was opened by the licence of the Bishop of St David`s in January 1850.

Magdalene Almshouses (left), were rebuilt in 1877 on the site of a lazar-house or leper hospital, apparently founded by a member of the de Leyes or Legh family, in the early 13th century.

The fake timbering was a slightly ridiculous whim of the Borough Council in 1928.

The photograph is of the War Memorial to the dead of both World Wars sited on the original Stopsley village green.

Leigh was a market town that prospered on coal, cotton, and silk.

A hooded bathchair stands before the Victorian buildings and the bronze statue of William Harvey, a 16th-century native of the town; he achieved renown for his work in discovering the fact that blood

This 1890 bronze statue of General Gordon of Khartoum on camel-back was the work of E Onslow Ford, and commemorates his illustrious career. It was erected five years after the general's death.

A hooded bathchair stands before the Victorian buildings and the bronze statue of William Harvey, a 16th-century native of the town; he achieved renown for his work in discovering the fact that blood

The canal in 1773 and the railway from 1847 brought huge trade and confidence -and pollution - to the small town of Bingley.

Looming over the town is the tower of the town hall, clearly more than a little influenced in its design by its more prestigious neighbour at Leeds.

Victoria Square is in the centre of Widnes. The building on the left is the library; the Technical College is at the side of it.

The public house has long been a vital constituent of city life. Here customers could relax after the day's toil with a tankard of porter.

Although Queniborough is virtually a part of the outer edge of suburban Leicester, this photograph presents an almost chocolate-box view of the village.

The village of Muker, set toward the western end of the dale, dates back to 1274. After a chapel of ease was built here in 1580, the delightfully named Corpse Way gradually fell into disuse.