Search Results

A view of the most impressive part of the remains of the abbey, the tiny oratory, with its Irish-Romanesque west doorway.

Battle is, of course, best known for the remains of its medieval abbey founded by William the Conqueror on the site of his victory over King Harold in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings.

The manor of Barden lay to the south-west of Tonbridge. Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

The aftermath of the recession left businesses striving to become more efficient.

Mr Fuller was also the first resident of Dorking to own a motorcar.

Mr Fuller was also the first resident of Dorking to own a motorcar.

This Tudor Balcony is to be seen in one of the cloisters on the north side of St George's Chapel. It is of no historic significance, but is very attractive and picturesque.

Burrator Reservoir was created in the valley of the River Meavy in 1891 to supply the growing city of Plymouth; it was enlarged in 1928 to a capacity of 1026 million gallons.

The parish church of St Helen stands sentinel over the bridge in the village of Stillingfleet, south of York.

This photograph of the lovely interior of the church gives a good indication of how the former decay in the fabric of the church described in 1779 by Thomas Beaufort as “a large, old, ugly wretched

This view of the northern end of the Parade gives some idea of just what a prominent landmark St John's Church is when seen from out to sea.

The attractive old streets of St Peters are still one of the most delightful aspects of Broadstairs.

Richmond's Norman fortress was begun by Alan the Red of Brittany in 1071 and dominates the entrance to Swaledale.

The castle was a fortified manor of the Bishops of Chichester; it was crenellated c1377 to defend the coastal area and the river estuary. The manor was granted long before the Norman Conquest.

The land for this park, west of the GWR Village, was donated in 1844 by Colonel T Vilett, one of the major landowners in the area, for the use of the railway community as a cricket ground and

The town of Broxbourne runs along the old north road, and was originally one of the largest parishes in the county.

The church of St John the Baptist at Royston was originally part of the 13th-century priory. At the Dissolution, the nave was demolished and the western arch of the tower was filled in.

As part of the redevelopment of the central section of Leeds, the Leeds Estates Company embarked on an ambitious scheme to transform the squalor between Vicar Lane and Briggate.

In the year of this photograph, Whitby is poised for a summer influx of new visitors via the new Scarborough to Whitby Railway, which opened on 6 July 1885.

The Greek Doric columns and pediment of the old Corn Exchange of 1832, now a McDonalds restaurant, are astonishingly out of scale in this quiet street of smaller-scale Georgian fronts.

Four miles south-east of Westerham, Four?Elms has developed in recent years, as a result of the spread of the railways into rural Kent and the growth of commuter travel.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

Moreover, a line drawn through it is said to separate the London of pleasure and fashion from that of work and business.The railway station occupies the ground floor of the prestigious company-owned

Seventy years before there was a timber quay under the walls of the Tower, with tall-masted sailing ships edging through the raised bascules of Tower Bridge.The river here was thick with islands of