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This photograph looks west beside the boating pool, with the Palace Hotel dominating the scene. Built in 1904, this fine hotel served as Queen Mary's Naval Hospital during the First World War.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Stone was on the North Staffordshire line from Stoke, which linked with the London & North Western at Colwick West Junction.

The priory was razed to the ground during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and these ruins were discovered in 1886 during the construction of the London and South West Railway.

The priory was razed to the ground during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and these ruins were discovered in 1886 during the construction of the London and South West Railway.

This crossroads west of the village of Calver is known as Calver Sough - a sough (pronounced “suff”) being a drainage tunnel designed to take water out of lead mines.

The late-15th century tower of Holy Trinity church is one of the finest in Cornwall; its west side has carved figures depicting the Trinity, the Annunciation and the Resurrection.

In 1893 the natural lake of Haweswater nestled peacefully in the unspoilt and beautiful valley of Mardale. At this time the road to Mardale village ran along the west side of the lake.

This view shows Gilbert Scott's west front from beyond the Square. This is a church that mingles ancient and modern perfectly.

Here the Burn winds its way through lavender-covered salt marshes to the sea; here the sand dunes stretch away to Holkham in the east and Scolt Head island to the west. A

Five miles south-west of Bridgend, this crenellated mansion was built on the site of a former medieval fortress for Thomas Wyndham MP between 1802 and 1806.

Leeds was the industrial power house of the old West Riding.

The lower part of this strange structure is Roman; it was the west corner of the Roman fort. The upper part is 14th-century. Inside, there is a small ruined tower.

Stour, two miles south-west of Chilham. In the main street of the village, we see a nice picket fence and some typically ivy-clad buildings.

The road rises up from the south, past the parish church, to enter Ibstock, gateway to industrial north-west Leicestershire.

The lower part of this strange structure is Roman; it was the west corner of the Roman fort. The upper part is 14th-century.