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Ashmore is a village of Cranborne Chase, with a splendid setting and a large pond that attracts a variety of birdlife.

Another view of Harrison Stickle, highest of the Langdale Pikes, this time from the valley at the bridge near the Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, a favourite haunt of walkers and climbers.

With the opening in 1920 of the Queen's Dock, Swansea Docks covered an area of 269 acres.

In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.

This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side- by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

Just beyond the green is the 12th-century church of St Michael, with its Norman tower and font.

This photograph was taken from roughly the site of the old Post Office.

Cleckheaton is another former textile town, five miles south of Bradford, which has had to find a new role during the late 20th century.

The working lives of the Dorset labourers who lived in cottages like these was hard, with poor wages and long hours.

The road here has since been widened with the demolition of the butcher's shop - can you see the legs of meat hanging outside the window of Mason's?

Schoolboys gather outside the King's School, not long before the outbreak of the Great War.

Wisbech's elongated market place bustles with activity on Thursdays and Saturdays.

This group of Tudor houses was originally plastered, and before a road-widening scheme in 1931, three gables stood across the St Margaret's Plain end.

The bottom of the church steeple is higher than the roof of the parsonage, just visible in the trees.

As the Alice Holt Forest receded, this area was planted with hop-bines; Wrecclesham helped to supply the breweries and ale-houses of Farnham with their raw materials, while its inhabitants maintained a

Seven miles from the Humber and to the west of Hull, Cottingham was another desirable place to live for prosperous merchants; in the 18th century there were five magnificent houses here, which were all

The church was built between 1623 and 1625 of materials from the original 13th- century structure.

Uttoxeter cattle market was the biggest market south of Nantwich. Before the foot and mouth outbreak of 2001, it hosted fat and store cattle sales on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

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.

The supporting bearers to the timber frame of the Tudor building are visible in detail.

St Peter's is Early English in style and is appropriately in Church Road, Earley, now part of Reading.

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