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Lying just to the north of Chilham is this small and curiously named hamlet where, until the beginning of the 20th century, an annual race was staged between two village youths and two maidens for a

After the First World War, there were plans to divide Westley Heights into 231 small plots of land and offer them for development.

Fishbourne in West Sussex is by far the most impressive Roman building in Britain, and is rightly called a palace.

Now merged with Dorking, North Holmwood is one of three small villages along the west side of the large and mostly wooded Holmwood Common - the other two villages are Mid Holmwood and South

This was among the 'horror pictures' used by the land agent John Cripwell in order to encourage Lord Antrim and the council of the National Trust to buy two thousand of acres from Lyme Regis to

Our second tour starts three miles west of Amersham in the delightful village of Little Missenden which grew up along the south bank of the River Misbourne and separated from Amersham by the parkland

This last chapter follows on geographically from where the fourth chapter finished, at Burgh le Marsh four miles west of Skegness.

Mills processed cotton and wool, providing clothing and fancy goods for the millions of workers who poured into West Yorkshire in the 19th century.

We can see the porch attached to the west tower, and also the good proportions of the building.

This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

In the late 15th century the Cheynes built the first part of the house, the hall, tower and the rest of the west range in the distance, an amorphous shape in brick under all the ivy, but

This view of the ruinous west front of John Bunyan's 'Palace Beautiful' atop the 'Hill of Difficulty' shows why historians are excited by the building.

The mansion and the church sit amid a park of over 200 acres, in an estate of more than 10,000 acres.

South-east of the town, along the valley of the River Ise and west of Barton Seagrave village, is The Wicksteed Park with the river dammed to form a large lake as the centrepiece.

The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for

On the west coat of England, the old fishing communities tended to be housed in cottages with thatched roofs.

The massed ranks of the staff pose outside the post office, which opened in West Street after occupying several addresses in the High Street and Petworth Road.

The ruined shell keep in the south-west corner of Pontefract Castle dates from the mid-13th century, when it was rebuilt in a polygonal form similar to those at Knaresborough, Southampton, Roxburgh and

From further west this view gives a good idea of the Georgian and later brick frontages added to the mainly 17th century timber-framed cottages lining the High Street and giving the town its distinctive

A view from the west bank of the River Medway, looking to the medieval bridge and Aylesford.

Corpach lies to the north of Fort William, where Loch Linnhe turns sharply to the west, narrowing and then widening out again to form Loch Eil.

A greensand village, it is slightly off the beaten track and quiet: or at least quiet west of the B3000 Puttenham Hill road, which links the A31 and the A3.

These ruined windows and arches are the remains of the cloisters.

Designed by Charles Ponting of West Overton, who was also architect and surveyor for Marlborough College, it was built by the Ponting Brothers of Avebury, along with the Shipway (masons) and Paradise