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The London and South Western Railway built their Exeter to Plymouth line to the north of Dartmoor through Okehampton.

The photographer is looking west along the High Street, past the Victorian primary school with its cluster of steep slated pyramidal roofs and the hall 'erected by General Bouverie for the use of the parish

In 1542 Henry VIII created the diocese of Bristol, and the former church of the Augustinian priory was elevated to the rank of cathedral.

When Leeds town hall was opened by Queen Victoria, the streets were lined with palm trees and triumphal arches.

West Bank winds up the hill towards the significantly-named Miners' Standard public house on the hill above the village.

The island of Iona, near Mull off the west coast of Scotland, is known as the cradle of Scottish Christianity or 'The Mecca of Gael'. St Columba built his monastery here in AD563.

The meeting of the East and West Dart rivers has drawn tourists for as long as transport has been available.

Note the hay rake, coal-scuttles and assortment of pip- ing and rope adorning the window of the local iron- mongers in the centre of Lyndhurst.

Although it is sheltered and here looks relatively tranquil, the estuary has claimed many ships. The famous Doom Bar (so famous it even has a beer named after it!)

Standing in the Severn Vale to the west of Stroud, Stonehouse was once a cloth-making town.

Blue Anchor is a hamlet in Carhampton parish, and it takes its name from the local inn. In 1874 it became a halt on the Taunton to Minehead railway line, now the privately run West Somerset Railway.

The wide porch and twin gabled west front were part of Thomas Nicholson's restoration of 1881-82.

Carnforth's industries of sand and gravel extraction and iron smelting depended upon the Lancaster Canal and later the railway, when an important junction between the north-south and east-west

The former toll house was demolished as part of a road-widening scheme, and access to and from West Street was blocked to traffic in the interest of safety.

West Huntspill, which we see here, grew from a conglomeration of agricultural hamlets straggling across the Levels.

To the right is John Gibson's dignified Italianate bank of 1883, now the Nat West and well restored. It towers over Stone Bow and is one of the city's finest Victorian commercial buildings.

The four roads which meet at the Cross are Moss Grove, Market Street, High Street, and Summer Hill, which are part of the main roads linking Dudley, Kidderminster, Stourbridge and Wolverhampton.

In 1928 the west wing was rented to the council for use as offices, but the rot had set in.

The small hamlet of Swinton, west of Malton on the B1257, above the wide valley of the River Rye, was completely deserted when the Frith photographer called on a summer's day.

His last expedition found the North–West Passage around the north of Canada, but Franklin and his crews died in 1847 when his ships, 'Erebus' and 'Terror', were trapped in the Arctic ice.

Two of the girls have come down from the bridge and are inspecting the ruined south-west towers.

Stonemasons and glaziers from France and Italy built St Wilfrid's first stone church on this site in 672. Reconstruction began in 1069, although the building we see today dates from 1180.

Tranquil waters lap around the two outer piers and the narrow entrance to the dock, which was cut back into West Polmear Cove around a century before this photograph was taken.

One of Kent's most ancient villages, Aylesford occupies a strategic crossing of the Medway, and dates from the time of the Saxons. The parish church crowns a hillock and is principally Norman.