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Henry II's 12th-century keep at Castleton, seen here from Cave Dale with Lose Hill in the background, was an obvious sign of the Norman's dominance of the Peak District.

The stream here flows through the Vale of Mawgan from St Columb. A couple of miles inland is the Village of St Mawgan, from which the giant airbase takes its name.

The churchyard of St Peter`s parish church at Hope is filled with gravestones commemorating local families, such as the Eyres and the Woodruffes.

The Church of St John the Baptist, Baxenden was completed in 1877 as the population in that area increased. Christ Church had opened in 1840, and Baxenden was originally part of that parish.

In the 1950s part of the bombed land around the cathedral was designated for open space to enhance the view of Christopher Wren's masterpiece.

An archetypal Pennine industrial landscape is presented in this view of Cornholme, in the deep valley of the River Calder between Burnley and Todmorden.

A modest train of the old London & South Western puffs into Calstock station, having crossed the slender viaduct that bridges the glittering waters of the Tamar.

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

Britain's most important centre for the manufacture of broadcloth, this mill town sprawls across its wide valley, a huge piece of industrialisation in a wonderfully natural setting.

This beautiful Tudor mansion was built at the end of the reign of Henry VIII by the successful lawyer Sir John Hynde, partly from materials salvaged when they pulled down the church of St Etheldreda

A new public school opened at the western fringes of Cheltenham in 1886. It was named Dean Close in honour of Francis Close, sometime Bishop of Carlisle.

Budleigh Salterton stands to the west of the silted estuary of the River Otter. Its own beach is sandless and full of large pebbles, which seem to sing as the tides play across them.

This 15th-century slate-hung house is on the North Quay and was once the Guild House of Padstow's merchants.

In the 1930s Sidmouth acquired a reputation as an upmarket holiday resort, not so much for its sea-bathing as for the tranquillity of its setting and the mildness of its climate.

Barlborough was built by Francis Rodes, brother-in-law of the fourth Earl of Rutland and a member of a landed family who had been settled in Derbyshire for about two centuries.

The great Norman church is one of the most impressive in Europe and certainly the finest in Hampshire.

Howth Abbey church, although ruined for many years, contains a number of fine monuments. The best known is the tomb of the thirteenth Earl of Howth.

Completely overlooked by the towering limestone cliffs of Middleton Dale, the village church of Stoney Middleton is one of the few completely octagonal churches in England.

Whether Harborne is famous for being a good place to catch newts and minnows is not recorded, but it was famous as a place for growing gooseberries; the annual dinner of the Gooseberry Growers’ Society

Known today for its massive castle, one of Edward I's chain of fortresses built to subdue the Welsh, this town on the shore of the Menai Strait at the mouth of the River Seiont is now staunchly Welsh-speaking

The assortment of gentlemen's wear ranges from smart business to working class layabout. On the right hand side there used to be a public washhouse and baths.

At the summit of Lodge Hill to the north of the Upper Winchendon ridge is a French chateau.

It is the largest church in Ireland, with a 143ft tower (Minot's tower) of 1370. The 100ft spire was added in the 17th century by George Simple.

The 100-foot high slender stone tower of the church of St Peter and St Paul domi- nates this village built on a hairpin bend.