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Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is an important place of pilgrimage, second only to Becket's tomb at Canterbury.

At Wroxham, the capital of the Broads, there is a full mile of shimmering open water, which is thronged with pleasure craft in the summer months.

One of Bristol's more flamboyant characters was Richard Smith, chief surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, and a councillor from 1835 to 1843.

On 26 June 1685 the village was the scene of a skirmish between 350 royalist troops and rebel forces of the Duke of Monmouth. Monmouth lost his nerve and turned away from Bristol.

In November 1711 Lord Mohun fought a duel in Hyde Park against the Duke of Hamilton, in which both men were killed. It was not Mohun's first duel.

Frith's photographer could not resist one of the most photographed views along the Thames: Windsor Castle on its cliff-top towering above the town and river.

Things fall off a bit when the High reaches Carfax, at the corner of St Aldate's Street and Cornmarket Street.

At Ightham Mote, which stands in a ravine in the Weald, is a celebrated fortified mansion, with a moat refreshed by natural springs.

The field in the foreground still produces hay: at least the farming was a constant. Today, the railway area is gone, given over to retail warehouses.

The gardens and rockeries create secluded little seating areas, while the winding path leads up to Birnbeck Road. Over the trees, the roof of Glentworth Hall is visible.

The swannery was probably created to provide food for the abbey on high days. The monks made a duck decoy tunnel to ensure that the abbot's table was well supplied.

Designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, (who, obviously, also worked on London's St Pancras station) and built in 1864, this was the third house on the site and at the time of the photograph was owned by the

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

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.

It has the usual mixture of banks and public houses on its corners. A National Savings Centre is tucked away on the left of our picture, and the Millstone Hotel is at the far side.

On stage was Roy Barbour's comedy revue, 'Great Stuff This'. Another national figure was Dewsbury's only MP to become a Cabinet Minister.

Brown Candover's spired church was built in 1845 by the first Lord Ashburton, replacing an earlier place of worship demolished the previous year.

The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who

There was a castle at Aylesbury, but its location is unknown: only the name of Castle Street commemorates it. Here the photographer looks uphill towards Temple Square.

The Custom House dates from 1791 but was burned down in 1921 during the troubled years that led to the creation of the Irish Free State.

The town of Wadebridge falls within the parish of St Breock, but the church lies in a quiet valley nearly a mile away.

The iron bridge (demolished in 1978) brought the line from Exeter, and did not run parallel to the road bridge.

The Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Thomas of Canterbury was built in the 15th century; it was extended in 1858, when the north aisle was added.

Lincoln College 1906 The college was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln.