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This was a favourite hunting lodge of Henry III.

The ancient town of Rye was built on a sandstone rock at the confluence of the Tillington and Rother rivers.

New in Chaucer's time, they were built by Archbishop Sudbury and replaced a ruin on the same spot.

Moseley's inhabitants originally had to travel to King's Norton for church services, but at some time in the 15th century they acquired a chapel. A tower was added in 1513.

Designed by Bidlake in 1860, St James' is unusually memorable for a Victorian church, mainly because it is built of blue engineering bricks.

Dating from the 16th century, this fine Tudor country house was planned around three sides of a quadrangle with a protruding porch at the entrance.

Not only is the photographer on the cliff top taking a picture of his ladies with the lens into the sun, he is at great risk of losing his and their lives by going near the edge of these dangerous cliffs

The single-storey extension on the nearest house has been demolished, but there is something similar on the adjacent house.

When this similar view was taken 27 years after No 53495, the Promenade had taken on a more seafront appearance. The paved terrace has since gone as part of the more recent flood prevention scheme.

Cadnam is one of the best-known villages in the New Forest. Most people know it as being at the end of the M27 motorway where it joins the A31 - in a sense, it is the gateway to the forest.

Wivenhoe is situated on the River Colne. Here we have a view of the High Street at a quiet time. In the foreground is the railway, and further back stands the church of St Mary the Virgin.

Rows of stone cottages and rolling farmland characterise Brookhouse, which is close to Caton with Littledale and a popular retreat for commuters to Lancaster.

Standing at the foot of Pendle Hill, which is 1835ft high and just short of being a mountain, the stone-built Pendle Inn is in the centre of Barley, the heart of Pendle Witch country.

The River Medway broadens at Maidstone, on its way to meet the Thames estuary, and the locks here were built in 1792 and mark the tidal limit of the waterway.

The 15th-century Perpendicular west tower of the Church of the Holy Cross is remarkable for the three sculptures of heraldic lions, which crouch at the corners of the battlements.

No longer a hotel, it is divided into flats and called simply The Abbey.

Bridge End is on the south bank of the Avon, where all the roads from the south previously met to cross into Warwick.

The concrete diving stage was designed by J B L Thompson, and was officially opened at a gala in June 1935.

Sometimes called Cliffe at Hoo, the area is known today for its Portland cement works and chalk quarries.

Jan's Folly stands at the junction of the A45 and A5 trunk road. It was originally one of Telford's tollhouses on the London to Holyhead turnpike.

The two sluice gates were installed at Smeaton's request so as to scour away the outer Harbour's constant bogey— silt.

Notice the almost formal clothing of the seaside visitors – the women all wearing dresses or skirts, children in smart footwear and ankle socks, and the men clad in jackets, pullovers and ties!

Although Congleton produced the most silk of the two towns, for some reason it was always Macclesfield further north that was known as 'the silk town' – but ribbons (nylon ones these days) are still

The original village, however, was at the bottom of the hill, centred on the church of St Peter, with the estuary of the Dee beyond.