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Opposite the well-known Miller of Mansfield hotel and pub, mainly Georgian with older parts, is the Goring Free Church, dated 1893, on the corner of Manor Road, still looking pretty fresh in this view

This Wiltshire village is known locally as the village of four crosses, all medieval.

Moving east, this view looks along the Embankment from Charing Cross Bridge to Cleopatra's Needle, an Egyptian obelisk of 1500 BC, given to Britain in 1819 by the Viceroy of Egypt, but only erected here

Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.

It was constructed primarily of wood, except for the section that passes over the river bed, which is of iron girders and pile-driven steel cylinders.

Historian Arthur Mee, in his book 'The King's England - Oxfordshire,' says that 'if our England is a garden Great Tew is one of its rare plots...never anything but beautiful'.

The buildings on the left survive, now with large shops built out at ground floor level, but the corner building on the north side of Lumley Road, to the left of the Clock Tower, has been (badly) replaced

Chalford always was - and remains - a curious blend of the picturesque and industrial.

Beyond the village rises Wetherlam, the most northerly of the Coniston Fells, and over to the left, hidden by cloud, Lancashire's highest peak, the Old Man.

A closer view of the massive entrance to Peak Cavern, said to be the largest cave entrance in Britain.

The great state bed of Haddon was removed during the 9th Duke's restoration, and is now kept in the picture gallery at Belvoir Castle.

Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London-Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.

The Church of St Just has a 15th-century tower which was built to hold a light for shipping. This may have helped local boats, but the nearby Dodman Point claimed many ships.

The maltings (centre) are a reminder of the days when grain was unloaded into the barges here en route for Ipswich.

Traditionally Nantwich was the most important of Cheshire's three salt towns, although salt production ceased here in the 1800s.

The tree-lined walks by the side of the River Derwent known as the Lovers' Walks have been popular with visitors since the town became a tourist honeypot in the 19th century.

Despite major restoration of the 18th century building in 1903, it became redundant in 1974.

A fascinating early photograph which shows the crags below Hay Top in Monsal Dale, and beyond them the freshly-excavated limestone scree (centre) of the embankment which was to take the Midland line

This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which

The castle was to the south of these cottages; its outer bailey was bisected by the later Castle Lane.

Said to be the work of I K Brunel, it is a fine example of Great Western Railway Victorian Gothic architecture.

Despite being used by Parliamentarian soldiers during the Civil War as a site from which to bombard Nantwich, Dorfold Hall fortunately survives as one of the finest houses of its period in Cheshire.

Heacham has the distinctive flat beach of this part of the West Norfolk coast.

From the south and south-west, the minster's twin towers, set against a backcloth of Colehill trees, dominate the skyline and dwarf the rooftops of ordinary buildings.