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The weatherboarded Chequers pub is tucked away in a corner of the dog-leg at the top of the village street, with the early 15th-century church tower rising above the surrounding tiled roofs.

The 18th-century coaching inn, the Black Boys, with its Dutch gable, is in the centre of the picture.

Well-mannered town centre buildings open onto the flower-bedecked triangle, but the portents of a more gaudy future are already apparent.

Further downhill, at Fiveways, the road on the right is Fosse Lane. Here the Roman Fosse Way climbs out of the Avon valley to cross Banner Down on its way to Cirencester, the Roman town of Corinium.

The curious Mathematical Bridge across the Cam, built on geometric principles, and originally held together - so the story goes - without any fixing devices.

This view of Pateley Bridge, 'capital' of Nidderdale, was taken from Station Square and the bridge over the River Nidd.

Here we are looking down the High Street, with Smith's chemist's shop – still at this period with only one large window – on the right.

Arkengarthdale is a little-visited but very beautiful dale which runs into Swaledale from the north-west at Reeth.

The Pier and the Pavilion 1909 Weymouth esplanade winds round to the pier and pavilion theatre, a favourite stroll for the Edwardian visitors seen here.

It was here and on the Market Place that local people met to protest about unemployment and hardship in the years following the defeat of Napoleon.

The name of this small settlement on the slopes of Wansfell Pike between Windermere and the Kirkstone Pass means exactly what it says - 'the trout stream' - and it stands above a stream with the same name

The blue-grey slate walls of Coniston parish church looks down on a memorial to one of England's greatest writers and social reformers, John Ruskin.

Moving downstream, it is no use the hopeful walker knocking on the door of this early 19th-century farmhouse, Littleholme, in Upper Inglesham, hoping for a bed: it is no longer, as it was in the 1950s,

Here we see Bondgate with its famous slope of cobbles. The buildings on the right are mainly late 18th- and early 19th-century.

The bushes to the left hide the site of the old abbey at Abingdon, founded in 676 and again in 955 after the original had been destroyed by marauding Danes. It was the mainstay of this area.

This interesting old building of uncertain vintage is located in a small village near Tenterden. The door where a first floor may have been suggests considerable alteration.

This well-known public house stands at the foot of the Downs. The area was noted for grazing sheep. There is a spring-fed well by the roadside next to the pub.

There was an urgent need for this school for the sons of Methodist ministers, for the ministers were re-located every three years.

One of the captains was landlord of the nearby Crooked Billet. When a big spring tide met the river's flow, the aegre, a wave similar to the Severn Bore, was seen at its best here.

It is suggested that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the king to Roger de Fiennes to ‘embattle’

It was planned that each neighbourhood in the New Town would have its own pub.

The Army, probably from the neighbouring garrison town of Catterick, was on parade in the sloping, rectangular Market Place at Leyburn in Wensleydale when the Frith photographer called for this picture

The Highways Department has made a fine job of the flowerbeds on this roundabout at the North End of Northallerton, the busy little town on the River Wiske on the western edge of the North York Moors.

This tiny street of small shops offers a glimpse of the city's gleaming white castle, which rises from a great mound raised in prehistoric times.