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An older chapel at Alderholt fell into ruin during the reign of Charles II. The original was used by huntsmen to bless their expeditions into the wilderness of Cranborne Chase.

The pavements of Market Street were crowded with pram-pushing mothers shopping for the week's provisions.

Extensive development and infilling has transformed the village into more of a suburb of Hinckley today.

This building is the last remnant of the Tannery, and still stands east of the bridge opposite Greenaway's car park.

Seaview shows off a huge variety of architecture, as this photograph demonstrates.

Winchcombe was the final home of Henry VIII's surviving Queen Catherine Parr, who lived just south of the town at Sudeley Castle.

There was early criticism of the architecture of some of the college buildings. To mark the establishment's jubilee, this new chapel designed by H A Prothero was built - to great critical acclaim.

All Saints' Church contains a memorial to the Reverend Lyte, author of 'Abide With Me' and 'Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven'.

The rather barren appearance of the High Street exemplified in this photograph sets the tenor of this large mainly red-brick village.

Part of the village is clustered around the top of a ravine; notice the steep flight of steps in the lower foreground dropping away down toward the sea.

A party of three carriages of sightseers await to depart from Larne Main Street.

Bindon Abbey was the location of an important Cistercian monastery and dates back to 1172. Little remains of the original building; this neo-gothic gatehouse dates back only to the 1790s.

Only the Priory Church and Gatehouse remain; the rest of the buildings were taken down in the aftermath of Henry VIII's Dissolution.

This red-brick Georgian coaching inn stands at the centre of Great Witley. The village is situated in a pleasant spot just below the Abberley Hills, an outcrop of the Malverns.

The present horse on this site dates from 1778 and was the first of several figures cut in the chalk downs of Wiltshire during the next half-century.

The granite stone of Bodmin Moor supports a natural oddity, the impressive outcrop known as the Cheesewring.

A match is in progress on the green. Most of the trees we saw in photograph B27004 have now been felled and replaced by houses.

On the west bank of the Ant stood Ludham Mill, a tower mill nearly 50ft high to the iron curb, with a base diameter of 12ft 4in, including 18in thick walls.

At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.

Midway between the ancient sites of two Norman motte and bailey castles at the extreme ends of the village, Holy Trinity Church is the topographical as well as the spiritual centre of Ascott; old

This view was taken from almost the identical position to the 1897 photograph, and it is surprising to see how many of the previous century's buildings continued to exist with the addition of modern façades

This flight of 122 steps leads up to the parish church dedicated to St Chad.

The 13th-century parish church of St Oswald is now the centre of a hectic one-way traffic system. A rare annual rush-bearing ceremony is held at the church.

A brisk climb above Winchester is always well rewarded by the beautiful views of the city, its handsome and historic buildings clustered round the hollow in which this one-time capital of England sits.