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

Two bridges crossed the Usk at Llanfoist: the medieval stone-arched road bridge is dwarfed by the railway bridge, which was demolished shortly after the Abergavenny to Merthyr line closed in the early

Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is an important place of pilgrimage, second only to Becket's tomb at Canterbury.

This photograph shows the part of the Jubilee Exhibition of 1887 that was situated between Talbot Road and the railway.

Two bridges crossed the Usk at Llanfoist: the medieval stone-arched road bridge is dwarfed by the railway bridge, which was demolished shortly after the Abergavenny to Merthyr line closed in the

The small stone village of Beddgelert stands at the confluence of the Colwyn and Glaslyn rivers. It sits in the shadow of Snowdon, and is a favourite tourist spot.

East of Market Deeping and joined to it is Deeping St James village. At its heart is this curious structure in medieval stone.

There used to be a Saturday market here, but eventually the larger markets of Boston and Spalding took its trade. The A52 leads to Boston, and the A152 goes on to Spalding.

Just a few yards up the hill from All Saints' Church, Barn Hill is a far cry from the commercial bustle of Red Lion Square.

By the 10th century pottery was being manufactured in and around Stafford, but it would be Burslem that would rise to become the main centre of this industry during the 13th and 14th centuries.

Haddon Hall survives as one of the finest examples of a 16th and 17th century residence owing to the fact that when the Duke of Rutland abandoned it in favour of Belvoir Castle in 1700, it was not allowed

Dunstanburgh is the largest castle in Northumberland, built by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster; the licence to crenellate was granted shortly after the loss of Berwick to the Scots.

This is a detailed look at the station. To the right, a London & South Western Railway meat van waits to collect meat from the slaughterhouse (centre left).

Its quays were once the heart of Belfast the port, and there is no doubt that the remains of Chichester Quay on the right and Hanover Quay on the left will be found below the cobblestones.

One of the first known owners of the property was a member of the Brocke family by the name of Ayre. The earliest boundary was north of the stream known now as the Pip Brook.

In 1651, Sir Richard Weston of nearby Sutton Place embarked on his great enterprise to create the Wey Navigation and make the river commercially navigable from Guildford to the Thames, by straightening

In the foreground we see the roof of Bury House and its stables at the western end of The Bury.

The etching on the windows, 'Magistrates Room' and 'Solicitors Room', reminds us that the Magistrates' Courts were also housed here for many years.

Barton-upon-Humber was once a rival to the port of Kingston upon Hull on the other side of the river Humber, but it is now a much smaller settlement, and the Market Place confirms that most definitely.

The first brothers of the establishment came directly from Normandy. The remains to be seen today actually date from the abbey's rebuilding in the course of the 13th to the 15th centuries.

The roundabout is situated at the crossing of the Icknield Way (the A505) and the A10.

Hayling is linked to the mainland by a concrete road bridge that opened in 1956, replacing the wooden toll bridge.

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

In the medieval manorial rolls there are references to ancient roads and lanes that carry the same names today.