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A contemporary guide book extolled Bournemouth's climate: 'it is perhaps most beneficial to invalids during the fall of the year and the early spring, when it will compare favourably with many of the Mediterranean

The Borrowdale Hotel is in one of the wildest valleys of Lakeland, and only the hardiest of early tourists made their way this deeply into the dale.

Like Geddington, the village of Hardingstone is famous for its Queen Eleanor Cross, erected by Edward I in memory of his wife. The funeral procession rested here en route to London in 1290.

In Roman times Cirencester, Corinium Dubunnorum, was the second most important town in Britain after London, standing near the Roman roads of Akeman Street, the Fosse Way, Ermine Street and the older Icknield

The tide is in, the sea is calm and the bathing machines have nowhere to go except on the Promenade.

The older part of the village is full of houses and cottages built by the Victorian lord of the manor, William Mackworth-Dolben. None are more fanciful than The Bell Inn on Bell Hill.

Most of the buildings shown here have either gone or been adapted. An exception is the superb five sailed mill, which takes its name from the Maud Foster drain flowing alongside.

The names of the fallen are on plaques built into the gallery wall to the right of the obelisk, which simply states: 'Their name liveth for evermore'.

Many of the people seen here would be day trippers rather than resident visitors, having come for a breath of fresh sea air on one of the many excursion trains from inland.

The second highest part of Bodmin Moor is Rough Tor, at 1311 feet.

Today there are many more large villas here, including those of Fosterville Crescent. Mr Foster, the builder, showed his pride in his work by occupying the largest of the new houses.

The paintings that formed the basis of Britain’s national collection were purchased for £57,000 in 1824 from J Angerstein.The exhibition halls created on the north side of Trafalgar Square to display

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

This view looks towards Bay Fine, Aldrick and the Calf of Man.

The Irish Sea can be as flat as a mill pond, but when an easterly, south-easterly or north-easterly gale blows up, this is what happens at Douglas.

Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles', where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious 'Flower-de-Luce'.

The tiny church of St Olaf at Wasdale Head is said to be among the smallest in England; but surrounded as it is by the dramatic mountains of Wasdale, it is also one of the most visited.

A little later, the year before the First World War started, the great boating craze of the later Victorian and Edwardian years is still in full swing.

This view captures well the character of much of the Thames estuary: a somewhat bleak, flat shoreline and a smudge of distant chalk hills on the Kent side.

Felton stands on the north bank of the Coquet, and it was here that the Great North Road once crossed the river by way of the old bridge featured in the picture.

It is of 14th-century origin, and has some 16th-century and Victorian restoration work.

These large houses stand in an idyllic situation on the cliffs above the Channel overlooking St Margaret's Bay.

St Peter's is the parish church of Barnstaple. This present building was erected in the 13th century on the site of a previous church.

In the 1660s Kinver was the scene of an unsuccessful attempt by Andrew Yarranton to make the Warwickshire Stour navigable from Stourbridge to Stourport-on-Severn.