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Bondgate gets its name from the area of the town where the bishop of Durham's bond tenants once lived; it was once a separate manor from Darlington.

Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.

Weymouth's beach has gently sloping sands and is mostly sheltered from the storms and swells of the English Channel, making it suitable for the youngest and most inexperienced of bathers.

Looking north along Grafton Street towards Trinity College and the east portico of the Bank of Ireland. Grafton Street is Dublin's most elegant shopping street.

A tranquil mid-summer view of the Grand Junction or Union Canal, which reached the nearby town of Tring in 1799 as part of a massive construction, designed to link London and Birmingham and which subsequently

It was the scene of the first action of the barons against Edward II, whose favourite Piers Gaveston held Scarborough at the time; despite surrendering, Gaveston was seized by the Earl of Warwick and summarily

Kington was also once described as having a 'maze of narrow streets … where too many of the old houses have been refronted, but still have the attraction of a wildly irregular skyline'.

The Market House was built of granite in 1839-40 for the sale of meat, poultry and butter, and the four carved ox heads above the pillars (left) are a notable feature of the street frontage.

The fine bay windows of this house have been filled in with concrete and adorned with graffiti, while other windows have been boarded up.

The cannon 'Mons Meg' is said to have been cast at Mons, Belgium in 1486, on the orders of James III.

These priests had plenty of money and plenty of time on their hands, and were always getting up to mischief.

This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.

Brook is still a beautiful village, despite being something of a dormitory for the expanding town of Ashford nearby. Here we see a group of picturesque old weatherboarded farm buildings.

This view looks across the broad expanse of firm sands to a goods train, which is probably carrying slate on the now-vanished harbour branch of the railway.

A view of the Archbishop of Canterbury`s official residence when Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher, who crowned the Queen, was primate. The gatehouse was completed about 1495.

Conisbrough is derived from Cyningsburgh, Anglo-Saxon for the king's fortified settlement; it features in Sir Walter Scott's novel 'Ivanhoe' as the home of Athelstan, the last of the Saxon royal line.

The High Street was one of the principal shopping areas of the city to be damaged during the air raids of December 1940.

The thatcher's craft is one of the staple industries of broads villages. This photograph shows reeds growing at the edge of a broad, with the cut stalks stacked by the cottage.

One of the best preserved examples of a Norman motte and keep can be seen inside the grounds of Cardiff Castle.

The Troutbeck valley is one of the most peaceful in the Lake District, and in this view, taken from the old coach route between Windermere and Penrith, the essentially rural nature of much of the district

The Quay and the harbour were once separate from the rest of the town. The present harbour walls date from the middle of the 19th century; they are built on the site of previous medieval walls.

This is one of Exmouth's two bowling greens - the other is at the back of the town at Phear Park. The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

A similar view to No 43714, above, and taken five years later shows cows grazing in the Meadows, a cowshed in the shadow of the Grammar School (far right) and an even better view of the upper part of