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The ancient town of Totnes was once second only to Exeter as a prosperous merchants' town, but declined in importance in the 19th century.

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.

A striking feature of this picture is the contrast between the rounded, early Norman arch in the foreground and the taller, narrow pointed arch of a later period at the western end of the nave.

The town owes its very existence to the building of the Ellesmere Canal (as it was then called) by Thomas Telford and William Jessop in the 1790s.

A few miles to the north of Chipping Campden lies Mickleton, a small town that displays both the limestone buildings of the Cotswolds and the traditional half-timbered style of the Vale.

Perhaps this view was taken on a Sunday - notice that the entrances to all the shops on the left have gates closed across them.

Both villages, which lie at the end of the Selsey peninsula, just a few miles from the historic cathedral city of Chichester, have long been associated with seaside holiday recreation.

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.

Here we see the equestrian statue of George IV, who was Prince Regent at the time of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

'The village of Big Budworth! You may travel England round, There is not such a village in the kingdom to be found.'

Romanby Green at Northallerton, a little town on the River Wiske on the western edge of the North York Moors, gives the impression of a village green.

Children from the rather plain terraced houses have been given the job of taking the baby out for a pram ride.

Now a suburb of Wellington, the village was once known as Rowe Green, but often dubbed 'Rogue Green' because of the unruly behaviour of some of its inhabitants.

This monument was erected in 1928 at the site of Monmouth's defeat at the hands of the Royalist army in memory of all those killed during the battle or who subsequently suffered imprisonment, transportation

Situated two miles south-south-west of Bridgend, Ogmore was originally a ringwork with a timber palisade built in 1116 by William de Londres to guard crossing points on the rivers Ewenny and Ogmore.

This street scene is much altered from that of the 1906 photograph.

Under the will of Archdeacon Pykenham, twelve almshouses were built in 1490 on either side of the earlier wayside chapel of St. Mary Magdalene and Catherine of Sienna.

In the 19th century, this area south of Dorking was a wild and dangerous part of Surrey, where highwaymen pursued their villainous trade and smugglers transported their contraband goods at night along

Here are buildings of the second half of the 19th century, with an object lesson to be observed in the treatment of boundary walls and railings - all neat and carefully designed.

This is a classic photograph of a north London suburb around the turn of the century, with a mix of design and scale in the road-side buildings.

The little town of Corfe is older than its castle; it is the Corvergate of the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'.

Here we see the ruins of the once luxurious state rooms of Bolsover Castle. It was probably in these rooms that the Duke of Newcastle lavished thousands of pounds on entertaining Charles I.

This house was built by the three Medley brothers in c1750 in the grounds of Buxted Park, situated about two miles north of Uckfield.

This interior of a 15th-century Tudor house is part of Tooth's stationery shop, located on the south side of the High Street.