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Holkham Hall was built in the 18th century by Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester to a design by Palladio.

This charming timber framed cottage (with a relatively modern extension) is a typical product of the skill of local carpenters and builders.

Built high on a sandstone crag commanding Tarporley Gap, Beeston was one of a series of fortresses built by Rannulf de Blundeville, sixth Earl of Chester and Lincoln; the others were Chartley in Staffordshire

Dinas Mawddwy is also infamous for the murder of one Lewis Owen, Baron of the Exchequer and Vice Chamberlain of North Wales.

In the north-east corner of Dartmoor, in open country, is one of the finest stone rings, Scorhill. It once consisted of 36 stones erected without any shaping.

This view from the church tower was taken looking towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.

Before the golden age of granite, brick was often used for gables, even in a building right in the middle of the city. This is a very early form of flats, possibly built about 1775.

A depressing series of small-scale shops line the main road, which is soon to sweep in more peaceful mode under Bardon Hill.

Burton Street refers to the former leper hospital of St Mary and St Lazarus established about 1150 by Robert de Mowbray, to the south of the town; it can only be seen now as a series of earthworks to the

This picture fits the description of Rochdale that appears in the 1906 Baedecker guide: 'a town of over 90,000 inhab., situated on the Roche, and is one of the chief seats of the flannel and woollen industry

The west side of the bay comprises Scarlett Point, which has outcrops of lava and volcanic ash, while the stack is columnar basalt. The east side of the bay features the flat rocks of Langness Point.

We are looking south down the length of Windermere from Todd Crag, a southern outlier of Loughrigg Fell above the hamlet of Clappersgate.

The North Yorkshire village of Ampleforth is perhaps best known for its Roman Catholic boys' school situated to the east of the village, but this view shows the Main Street of the village itself, which

The porch of the Three Crowns was the scene in 1643 of the shooting during a skirmish with Parliamentarian forces of the Royalist poet Sidney Godolphin, described by a contemporary as 'perfect

A bridge crossed the head of the Kingsbridge estuary as early as 962, though the surviving bridges in the area are medieval in origin.

An earlier view of the entrance to Dovedale, again showing the donkeys, and the slopes of Butser Hill rising to the left of the photograph, with the crags of Thorpe Cloud to the right.

Here we see the back of the great tithe barn, which was built in about 1413. It was claimed to be one of the largest in the country at 276ft long.

Victorian enthusiasm for railways soon ensured that all the major tourist centres of the Isle of Wight could be reached by the Permanent Way.

The pretty village of Calbourne lies among the downlands of the Isle of Wight. Its lovely Early English church boasts many fine monuments and is among the oldest on the island.

This former ancient tide mill, sited to the south of Dell Quay and at the head of the Bosham Channel, today stands alongside the Bosham Yacht Club quay, and is the haunt of many yachtsmen who enjoy the

These two photographs of the village High Street give some indication of the constantly-flowing stream of traffic which passes the small, half-timbered Black Horse pub with its adjacent wine merchant and

This view of Northbrook Street shows the façade of Newbury's famous department store, Camp Hopson, established in 1921.

As one of the town's major employers, Kodak gave £10,000 for a new children's playground to be built in Gadebridge Park to replace the one lost by the construction of the Plough roundabout.

In the 1920s the future looked very bright for Loughborough, but the Depression of the 1930s came as a cruel blow to the town.