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This is not, of course, the original great Tudor palace of 'None such' built by Henry VIII, which was subsequently given to Lady Castlemaine by Charles II.

In November 1569, during the Rising in the North, it was held by Sir George Bowes, a loyal servant of Queen Elizabeth I, against a force led by Charles Neville, Sixth Earl of Westmoreland, and Thomas Percy

Arnold de Boteler was awarded the manor of Dunraven by William de Londres as a reward for his defence of Ogmore Castle when it was attacked by the Welsh.

The octagonal canopy is over 12m high, and its ornate decoration emphasises the significance of baptism in the life of the church.

At the top of Sceptre Hill on the way to Tonbridge stands the Hand and Sceptre Hotel; built in 1663, it became an inn in 1728, serving during this time as a district court.

An attractive village south of the railway line and the River Wreake, Frisby has a number of good houses.

One of Charles Wicksteed's nventions was a machine for the tearooms, which cut and buttered bread.

The view is closed at the far end of the street by Norman Burton's, built in the early 1800s, and just to the right the café sign invites you to Frances Hill's tea rooms.

Dolgellau was the county town of the old county of Merioneth, and is set amid the mountains which are famous for Welsh gold - the mines here provided gold for Royal wedding rings.

This is another view of this splendid Norman castle, built on the site of a Romano-British fortress by Gerald de Windsor as a wooden stronghold.

Here we see Preston Post Office just a couple of years after it opened.

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

Down the north side of the street are the post office, and the Great House, where William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham brought his 15-year-old son, Pitt the Younger, to recover from illness

Work on the original castle began in 1072: it was the official residence of the bishops of Durham.

The line of skiffs and rowing boats indicates the popularity of such a holiday pastime. This must have been a quiet day out of season.

This small pub on the outskirts of the isolated hamlet of Blackheath, with its shaded canopy and planted tubs, has undergone a name change, and now bears the uninspired title The Villagers.

Inland from Filey and Bridlington, this village contains a pond just behind the church of St Cuthbert, which is a chapel of ease for the mother church of All Saints at Hunmanby.

Much of the church dates from the 14th century, but the old west tower fell down and was rebuilt in 1850; further restoration followed.

Hayle Bay, with its lines of evenly-breaking surf and golden sand, is now a mecca for surfers and tourists, and New Polzeath has grown along the low cliffs on the opposite side of the beach.

This view of the village was taken from St Bride's.

The Green c1955 We are looking across Newick's green from the pump towards the Bull Inn, famed at one time for the annual sports- man's suppers staged by Thomas Baden- Powell, cousin of the founder

The houses of Bramber are varied and picturesque. Some are built of brick or flint, and some are creeper-clad. The village was once an important port on the River Adur.

Designed by Nash in 1809 and rebuilt to look exactly the same after a fire at the beginning of the 20th century, Knepp Castle stands between the villages of West Grinstead and Shipley.

When the Earl of Leicester made the embankment in the 19th century, he also planted the vast line of Corsica pines to stabilise the dunes from Holkham to Wells.