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West Loch Tarbert is just a couple of miles distant; it is said that in 1093 Magnus Barefoot dragged his longship overland between the two lochs, claiming Kintyre as a Norse possession.

In buildings immediately west of Tring Park is housed the Sir Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, based on his enormous collectoin of stuffed and mounted animals from every corner of the world.

On the right is the splendid facade of the old Northamptonshire Union Bank, which became the National Provincial Bank and today is Nat West.

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

This view looks towards Barker's Pool, where Sheffield's first reservoir was built in 1434 to collect water from several springs on the hillside above West Bar.

As long ago as the reign of Edward the Confessor, Bridport was a town of considerable importance, boasting over a hundred dwellings, a priory of monks and its own mint.As its name implies, it was

The Sanctuary had a more enclosed feel than today owing to the hospital opposite the abbey's west door.

This view is taken from the top of the church tower overlooking the triangular market place, with the Jubilee Pump and Swan Inn.

At its height in the 19th and early 20th century, Halifax was the greatest of the textile towns of West Yorkshire, a centre for woollen manufacture and clothing, larger even than Leeds or Bradford.

The west door of the church, a fine example of Norman work, was removed from the earlier building and incorporated into Bishop Grandisson's extension.

Ramsbottom is a small cotton town on the Irwell less than four miles north of Bury, and just over eleven miles from Manchester.

It is remarkable that more than a century after this photograph was taken, Hampton Ferry, to the west of Evesham, still exists, and it still operates in the same way: a cable is strung across the river

This leafy suburb of Tunbridge Wells boasts a broad and spacious green, fringed by cottages and trees.

Moored between these gates is a sailing bark, and in the distance can be seen the East and West Piers.

An isolated village of flint and brick cottages, to the west of Chichester. In the village are Adsdean, a gabled Tudor style house of around 1850, and the parish church of St Mary, built in 1859.

Because it lacks a clerestory and triforium, the aisles rise to the same height as the nave, a feature making Bristol unique among English cathedrals.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries a large number of country houses were built in the castellated style.

Looking north-west past the village cross, we see the church with its curiously plain tower and mean spire.

Dating mainly from the 13th century, it features an impressive square west tower, an aisled nave, transepts and chancel.

Inside there are monuments to Sir William Gilstrap, a pottery manufacturer, of Fornham Park (who died in 1896) and Henry Claughton, an HMI in West Suffolk for 38 years (he died in 1924)

The George Brewery was established in 1702, and was owned and run by the George family from 1788 until 1961 when it was bought by Courage.

In this view we are looking north-west up London Road towards the Queens Head in the distance, beyond the junction with East Street.

We are south-west of the village centre, and the photograph exudes a strange feeling of well- cared-for neglect.

Avonmouth was used by the Imperial Direct West India Mail Service Co, whose ships sported white hulls and yellow funnels.