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The sign on the left of the picture indicates a free car park.

Kenilworth began its transformation from bleak fortress to luxurious palace in the 1360s when it became the property of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.

Designed by Thomas Hopper and Edward Haycock for C R Mansel-Talbot, Margam is featured in some of Fox-Talbot's earliest photographs.

A local landowner, the Earl of Plymouth, encouraged the building of Barnt Green Station (on the left here) for the convenience of his tenant farmers.

The chain-ferry at Reedham is one of the last survivals of its kind: it is a raft hauled across the river by means of a wheel pulling on a chain.

Village shop and parish church form the heart of this cliff-top village. Walls and houses are built of whole flints.

Its gauche exterior, however, belies the superb auditorium of this self-proclaimed 'National Concert Hall of Wales'.

Despite 80 years of Anglican disestablishment the cathedral remains a religious focal point for Cardiffians.

Sidlesham is a hamlet near Pagham Harbour.The 13th- century church of St Mary is built of stone rubble, not the usual flint of the area.

The story is told (which may or may not be true) that in 1154 thousands of people lined the old bridge to herald the arrival of Archbishop William Fitzherbert, later to become St William of York.The

This photograph was taken twelve years before the start of the castle's restoration by Lord Astor; at this time, its associations were solely with the romantic attachment of Henry VIII and

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

The arch of this impressive monument was originally crowned by Wyatt's colossal equestrian statue of the England's military darling, the Iron Duke.

Prior to 1935, all that would have been seen from in front of the church would have been the top of the church spire.

The arch of this impressive monument was originally crowned by Wyatt’s colossal equestrian statue of the England’s military darling, the Iron Duke.

Intending passengers await the arrival of their tram. Rochdale abandoned its tramway system in November 1932; it was a casualty of the Depression, along with many of the town's cotton mills.

In 1899 the council took the decision to acquire the Rivelin Valley and made a number of purchases of land over the coming years.

The home of the de Hoghton family, the house (which is still there today) was mainly built in the reign of Elizabeth I.

The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial

Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as a result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before

Constructed of wrought iron and completed in 1879, the Severn Bridge was the longest tied-arch, bowstring truss bridge on the British railway network.

Part of the circular courtyard of the thirteenth-century castle; a favourite spot with Victorian visitors for a picnic. On the left can be seen the honeycomb internal stonework of one of the turrets.

Grindleford's war memorial (left) at the foot of Sir William Hill in the upper part of the village is based on the design of Eyam's Saxon preaching cross, and so it repeats the strange truncated appearance

The forbidding shape of Dartmoor rises in the background of this view of the Great Western Railway viaduct over the River Erme.