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Located at the western extremity of the South Downs, Buriton captures the essence of the traditional English village.

This dramatic view of the Calvary, which lies to the north of the Abbey buildings, was taken shortly after its completion, with the addition of the figure of Christ in 1965, although it was begun in 1847

A great deal of money was spent on the buildings of this charitable foundation.

The hotel was one of the landmarks of Nottingham for centuries and it is a matter of conjecture how it came by its unusual name.

On the high ground between Dover and Canterbury are a number of one-time mining villages; amidst them is the surprisingly attractive hamlet of Frogham, a collection of pretty cottages.

The estuary of the Camel is one of Cornwall's greatest natural features, fringed with golden sands and surrounded by rolling farmland.

The Tavistock road leads away from Plymouth to the fringes of Dartmoor, and has always been a busy highway.

Nearby on the summit of Blacklow Hill is a monument to Piers Gaveston, the favourite of Edward II.

Weymouth owes its origins as a favourite resort to the patronage of George III and of the rest of fashionable Georgian society, who travelled to the town to take up the new 'cure' of sea bathing.

The church, dedicated in 1124 to St Kyneburga, the third of four daughters of Peada, King of Mercia and founder of the abbey at Peterborough, stands on a slight rise overlooking the village of Castor and

Gone are the market stalls and booths of an earlier era. Here are the vans and accoutrements of a modern thriving market town, utilising the fronts of the Georgian buildings.

This photograph shows some of the numerous monuments housed within the Lumley Chapel that once formed part of old Cheam Church.

The church boasts some of the most grotesque gargoyles in the Cotswolds.

Here we get a splendid view of the frontage of the 1926 Fox Inn building, largely unchanged today.

St Peter's Church, Nevendon is an ancient church built in the 13th century by a member of the Fitz-Lewis family.

With the parish church, the Hall stands on the deserted medieval village of Wistow, about half a mile to the south of Newton Harcourt.

This picturesque Cotswold town in Oxfordshire lies on the slope of a steep hill above the Windrush valley about 20 miles east of Cheltenham.

Whitehall is on the extreme left of this photograph, taken at this junction of Park Lane and The Broadway; the widening of the Malden Road has yet to take place.

There is a pleasing lack of uniformity about the facades and rooflines of the buildings in the High Street, some of which are small cottages, and others grand town houses.

On the stony Stanton Road, Domesday Scepecote (meaning 'shelter for sheep') was home to the powerful Bassett family.

At Kyleakin stand the ruins of Castle Moil. It is said that the castle was built by the daughter of one of the Norse kings of the Western Isles.

The parish of Kibworth originally bracketed together Kibworth Beauchamp, Kibworth Harcourt and Smeeton Westerby, sharing the mother church of St Wilfrid.

The council paid £139,000 for the park in 1872, it being one of a number of acquisitions by the authority over the previous 20 years.

This statue of 1890 is by perhaps England's finest Art Nouveau sculptor, Alfred Gilbert, whose sinuous, slightly disquieting style is seen at its best around the base of the pedestal.