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A little east of the junction with the Oxford Canal is the bustling Braunston Marina.

A market town rather than a village, Watton has a constant stream of traffic through its bustling centre.

Robins Brothers, not content with filling their windows to bursting, have extended out on to the pavement and into the road.

Traffic comes to a standstill for this large flock of sheep being driven along the main road.

This illustrious town, often called the gateway to Cornwall, crowns the dark hill that rises from the valley of the tiny River Kensey.

Because of the flat roads, bicycles were in abundance both on the streets and greens, so much so that they caused problems for pedestrians.

The chapel of St Thomas once stood on Holywell Street, but even in the 1830s it was little more than a ruin, much of its stone having been taken for other buildings.

To the immediate right is the borough gaol of 1784. Lynn was founded by Herbert, Bishop of Norwich, in about 1100; it was known as Bishop's Lynn until it passed to the Crown in the time of Henry VIII.

This area of the fairground was redeveloped and incorporated into the King's Gardens, which were opened by HM King George V in 1913.

The new library and mayoral suite were seen as the first phase of a new block of civic buildings, though in fact it was another 30 years before the rest of the site - the Civic Centre and Civic

Iona is of paramount importance as a Christian historical site, with an impressive legacy of Celtic and medieval buildings and monuments.

At the height of the British Empire, the colleges took in the children of military officers and civil servants posted to far-flung corners of Queen Victoria’s realm.

Sherborne is, by some people's estimation, the most beautiful of the Dorset towns.

Situated near to the junction of two Roman roads and several prehistoric trackways, the Iron Age hillfort of Badbury Rings dominates the surrounding downland.

The small market town of Belford was once a coaching stop for travellers on the Great North Road.

An action-packed view of central Farnham on the eve of the First World War.

Thousands of Cheltenham people entered the world at St Paul's maternity hospital in Swindon Road, which was founded in 1948.

Shepherd's Crag towers through the trees over the Victorian Gothic buildings of the Lodore Hotel at the southern end of Derwent Water.

Great Ayton is one of Cleveland's prettiest villages, and was the scene of the upbringing and education of Captain James Cook, the famous 18th-century world explorer.

It was given its local name because of the diversity of shells gathered there. The hotels on the cliff above look out towards the island of Lundy almost twenty miles away.

A view of the pier taken two years after the storm damage of 1927. Obviously, by this time, no progress has been made on repairing the storm damage.

From Sheep Street the driveway to a tier of wide steps approaches the church.

Minchinhampton's very fine Market Hall dates from 1698, and demonstrates the early prosperity of this important wool town.

An ancient ford and footbridge, an abandoned cartwheel and the splash of water running over a tiny weir - this delightful photograph of stone cottages and attractive gardens reminds us that