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Today the little village if Hockley has been absorbed by nearby Poynton.

Clustered alongside the harbour, the older part of Poole is well worth exploring. In the 19th century, the town had many independent breweries.

It was Abraham Darby's partners, Quaker merchants from Bristol, who put up most of the £3500 needed to establish Coalbrookdale Ironworks.

Prosperity came to Warrington along with industry in the 1800s, and this is reflected in the quality of all the town's commercial buildings.

A special memorial in the church of St Mary the Virgin is dedicated to Ruth Boswell, daughter of the King of the Gypsies.

A fine open view of the harbour, with cabin cruisers, yachts and small fishing boats at anchor. Various types of working cranes add interest to the skyline, evidence of important port activities.

Here we have two views of the spacious harbour, opened in 1832 as the port for Canterbury, seven miles further inland.

On the south side of Coltishall the river Bure flows gently through water meadows where cattle and horses graze.

The Rollers enabled punts to be moved from a lower part of the river to a higher part. Beside this stretch there was a nude bathing place for men called Parson's Pleasure.

This expansive view down the valley of Great Langdale shows Harrison Stickle (2,403ft) and Gimmer Crag prominent on the skyline.

The clock tower on the far side of the bridge belonged to an important tin smelting works which operated throughout most of the 18th and 19th centuries before closing in 1891.

Bodmin is the home of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, which served with gallantry during the Great War. A sergeant major directs the parade.

The elevated entrance to the Queen's Gate was due to the fact that behind it lay the motte of the 11th-century castle built by Hugh de Lupus, Earl of Chester.

The Mother Church of Nottingham has the appearance, if not the stature, of a cathedral. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the present building dates from the fifteenth century.

At the junction of Common Road and Slough Road, two College schoolboys, one carrying a cricket bat over his right shoulder, are seen walking past the 'Burning Bush'.

Potton's market existed at the beginning of the 13th century, and the town owes much of its present layout to that period. In the early 1900s a count revealed the existence of 32 alehouses.

The sand-dunes along the east coast of Norfolk can rise to heights of ten metres or more, making access to the beautiful sandy beaches relatively difficult.

This delightful backwater of the Great Ouse is about as charming as you can get. The church is mostly medieval, and the unusual truncated style of its spire is the result of a hurricane in 1741.

The college was founded in 1509 and takes its name from the form of an ancient brass door-knocker.

As well as the tower of St James' church, a number of industrial chimney stacks punctuate the town skyline, hinting at Dursley's manufacturing past.

Part of the Trafalgar Square scheme included Pall Mall East, which was laid out to link it to Nash's Regent Street at Waterloo Place.

Overlooked by the slopes of Box Hill and the sweep of the North Downs, this delightful village acquired its name from the badgers whose setts were by the River Mole.

The blacksmith's workshop, along with the church, pub and local store, was an essential component of a village's existence prior to the arrival of the internal combustion engine.

Originally called Cambridge Town, in honour of the Duke of Cambridge who founded the Army Staff College here, its name had to be changed to avoid confusion within the postal service with its university