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Bursledon consists of two distinct halves - the new and the old.

This view from the west shows John Smedley's massive Hydro on the opposite side of the valley, which brought spa town prosperity to the town after its erection in 1853.

The stately 212ft-high Perpendicular tower of Derby's Cathedral of All Saints, which dominates this view of Iron Gate, still exerts a powerful influence on the county's biggest city.

Once part of Wonersh, and originally called Shamble Lea, this hamlet had a share of the medieval cloth trade, particularly with the Canary Islands.

Sir Thomas Boteler, lord of the manor of Warrington, left provision in his will of 1526 to establish a school 'whereby men's sons might learn grammar to the intent that they might learn to know Almighty

Now a hotel, the Old Court House was built by Sir Robert Brooke - he had bought the estate for £946 (an enormous sum of money for the times) following the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII

Built in 1878, and flagship of the MacBrayne fleet, Columba was renowned for the quality of her passenger comfort, with saloons the full width of her hull, a barber's shop and a post office.

In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, having landed at Pevensey to claim the English throne from King Harold, marched here and built a timber castle.

The view of Church Street from the opposite side of the roadway shows the medieval timber frontage of the Berkeley Arms Hotel with its first floor mullioned window, while further along is a

The two shots together provide an almost panoramic view of the coastline. Here the young boys explore the boat, whilst a lady appears only too aware of the photographer.

The pub fronts Main Street, sitting prominently at the junction of Cosby Road and Station Road, and appears to be the bad conversion of a former row of cottages.

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.

The complete breadth of the hillside supports a great acreage of woodland, which seems a little too neat for nature and thus could well be a forestry plantation.

The pub fronts Main Street, sitting prominently at the junction of Cosby Road and Station Road, and appears to be the bad conversion of a former row of cottages.

Situated on the south-west side of the village, the church was heavily restored by Frederick Peck of Maidstone in 1872.

This clock is a notable landmark by the side of the road connecting Windermere with Bowness.

The main suite of rooms is south of the Great Hall. The library has an ornate chimneypiece carved in oak by a highly skilled carver from Mansfield.

This 1820s structure, built by the Grosvenor family, required the remodelling of the old nuclear village of Halkyn, including its church, to accommodate it.

This view, looking north towards the entrance (in the Alton Road), shows several cottages built of chalk, some of which have since been demolished.

The parish of Abbots Ripton lies a few miles north of Huntingdon. At the time of the Dissolution it was held by Ramsey Abbey.

Known as the Prince of Wales Arch, this was erected by the Rev Oliver Raymond (d1889), the third of six Raymonds who were rectors here.

The Globe at Swanage was carved out of a great mass of Portland Stone, ten feet in diameter and forty tons in weight.The Globe is positioned to represent the position of the earth in space, with nearby

Another of Cheshire's cotton towns, Hyde was to be the scene of great industrial unrest when in 1848, a local group of Chartists marched through the town to disable the boilers, bringing all

The new town of Amersham on the Hill developed from the 1890s when, after 60 years of opposition, the Drakes and then the Tyrwhitt-Drakes finally allowed the railway to come to Amersham, but up the hill