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This view, showing the wonderful friezes of blind arcades, and with the 19th-century additions largely concealed, gives a good sense of the power of the keep on its mound.

This view, showing the wonderful friezes of blind arcades, and with the 19th-century additions largely concealed, gives a good sense of the power of the keep on its mound.

At the end of the strip of land known as the Shingles is the lighthouse at Hurst Point, warning ships of the mudbanks and shallows that line the nearby coastline.

This is a superb view of the mill. We can clearly see the mill race and weir. Note also the spire of the church in the centre of the picture.

This view of the rear of the Town Hall is taken from Town Hall Gardens.

This panoramic view of Porthminster beach and St Ives was taken from near the local coastguard station. On the left of the picture pilchard boats can be seen drawn up at the top of the beach.

A source of water was essential for the use of the monks and the parishioners. The small River Eea (or Ay) is the largest stream in the area, and it runs through the centre of Cartmel.

This broad is almost a mile long, and at this part of it the dinghy passengers and the cattle are enjoying a quiet moment.

In the 10th century, when permission was granted for a house to be built on the bar, the yearly rentcharged was sixpence.

Cromer was one of the most fashionable resorts for gentlefolk in late Victorian Britain. The story of the town as a popular holiday destination began when the railway arrived in 1877.

The church sits in a well-treed landscape, close to the basically late 16th-century Hall of the Hartopp family, who financed the building of the church in 1851.

Below, a shingle beach with patches of pea-grit provides a spot for rest and relaxation between Raffey's Ledge and the Mouth Rocks, where the River Char enters the sea.

The significance of Town Bridge is that of an enduring physical presence.

The camera looks north, with Old Schools on the left; this is effectively the original Harrow School building of 1608, with the wing seen here added by C R Cockerell in 1819.

We are on the southern slope of the Downs, north of Chichester. Boxgrove Priory, of the Benedictine Order, was founded in 1105.

Looking across the Menai Straits to Anglesey, the city of Bangor is the largest town in the north-west corner of Wales, the former principality of Gwynedd, and home to an ancient diocese and the University

One of the earliest attractions was Uncle Tom's Cabin, which started out as little more than a wooden hut from which Thomas Parkinson sold sweetmeats and ginger beer during the summer season.

The Douglases were a powerful family: they were wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway and skilled in war.

The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal. The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.

Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel were two discrete settlements at the head of the Teign estuary when William of Orange arrived there from Brixham in 1688, on his way to displace James II as King of England

After 1803 the environs of the Dawlish Water were landscaped to provide the kind of pleasure grounds expected in fashionable resorts of this period.

In this unusual view looking south-west, taken apparently from an upper window of the Crown Hotel, we see the ever present line of parked cars, the newest of which, 6503MC, was registered

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Using local timber from the woodlands along the estuary, the shipbuilders of Bucklers Hard, who would have lived in these cottages, built at least three of the ships which fought at the Battle of Trafalgar