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Immediately south- west of the village and approached via Church Street is Langold Country Park, dominated by a fine lake.

The Bronte industry, founded in this pretty, cobble-streeted West Yorkshire town after the famous literary family made the Parsonage their home in 1820, was already well under way, if this 1950s photograph

Wells was a port long before it became a tourist town, as the functional harbour and large warehouses make clear.

This is the reverse view along Par Green, looking west. It is mostly a residential street, illuminated by gas lamps at this date; but there is a group of shops on the right.

Their function was to stand in for the normally absentee cathedral dignitaries and Prebendaries. The west range here, although mostly medieval, was much changed in 1875.

Peaslake is a small village west of Holmbury St Mary, separated from it by a ridge of wooded hills.

A year after photograph 47650, the photographers returned to take another view looking west towards the New Town Hall.

Only the medieval west tower and the Victorian south porch survived. The church was rebuilt by Bernard Miller, who made no attempt to recreate the style of the original.

The Bishop's Palace occupies the west half of the Archbishop of York's palace, which was rebuilt in the 14th century. The rest of the building is now open to the sky and used as a walled garden.

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

Continuing along the west side of the River Nene as it heads north-east, we reach Islip. The river forms the parish boundary with Thrapston, now a small industrial town on the east bank.

As we approach Richmond, this view from the west bank looks towards the Petersham Road across to the former Messum's Boatyard.

Built around its fine market place, it found new life in the 19th century when it joined Northamptonshire's boot and shoe industry with several factories and terraces of hard red Midland brick houses.

St Barnabas Church was built in the 1880s to the designs of Carpenter and Ingelow.

This view looks west towards the Parish church. The pound lock replaced the hazardous flash locks in the middle of the weir in 1773.

Although technically part of West Yorkshire, the market town of Ilkley, standing at the entrance to Wharfedale, is best-known as the gateway to the Dales.

It was thanks to the generosity of cotton manufacturer William Atkinson that Southport got a Free Library and Art Gallery; he paid for both of them.

It was now firmly on the map: its narrow crowded alleys and harbourside streets, its ruined abbey and its souvenirs made from jet, fossilised wood found in the local area, proved a magnet for day trippers

Birchington is three miles west of Margate. The artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti lived here until his death in 1882, and he was interred in All Saints' churchyard.

We are looking west from the canal towpath towards the town, with the church spire in the centre distance.

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

The five-arch later 19th-century red-brick bridge still rather pompously carries a narrow roadway across the pond in the south west angle of the Heath.

The west range of the castle to the right dates back to the 13th century, whereas the heavily fenestrated north range to the left is Elizabethan, the work of Sir John Perrot, half-brother

Situated on the junction of Telegraph Road, Brimstage Road, Barnston Road and Chester Road, one of the busiest in West Wirral, this atmospheric pub has changed little in appearance since