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Batemans was built in 1634 for an ironmaster; later it was the home of Rudyard Kipling (1902-1936). It is a beautiful Jacobean house, now in the care of the National Trust and open to visitors.

The buildings behind were attached to the rear of the mill and also contained stabling.

The large shelter and the Jubilee fountain replaced the grand wrought iron gates of Torbay House as the focal point of Torbay Road.

The Norman church keeps the registers of Kingston, a village long lost due to coastal erosion. Highdown Hill, 269 feet high, was a Roman dwelling place and Saxon burial ground.

On the left, for example, are Boots, Foster Brothers and Freeman, Hardy & Willis.

A classic west Dorset view, showing Seatown and Golden Cap which, at 618 feet above sea level, is the highest cliff on the South Coast of England.

Sir Roger Fiennes' ancestor, Sir John, had married the heiress Maud de Monceux in 1320, the last of the family that had held the manor since the 12th century and had given the village the second

Westway leads us up to the elevated village dominated at the crest by a castle and Crake Hall.

The waters from the Malvern Hills nearby were then, as now, much better known. Tenbury Wells, The Church 1892 We are just across the border in Worcestershire here.

Shopping trends have changed since the early days of the New Town.

The wisteria-covered building on the left going up the hill was the Old Grammar School with the Crown Inn next door. The Odeon was to be demolished in 1974, when shops would be built on the site.

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.

Near the trees flows the spring waters of Daniel`s Well, which is named after a bishop of Malmesbury Abbey who lived during the 8th century.

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

By 1955, Market Hill has become a little busier.

This was the first of the open spaces provided for the workers of Wakefield at the end of the 19th century.

A group of young men of fashion are keen to show off their new suits to the photographer outside Burton's store.

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

LYNMOUTH, set on the rocky north coast of Devon, was 'discovered' in 1812 by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who stayed here with Harriet Westbrook, his first wife.

THE only safe anchorage on the inhospitable, craggy coastline between Appledore and Boscastle, Clovelly lived precariously for centuries from the herring fishery.

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

In the 18th century, The Red Lion was a popular stopping point on the London to Portsmouth road before the stage coaches began the long haul up to the wild and treacherous wastes of Hindhead Common, the

The wisteria-covered building on the left going up the hill was the Old Grammar School with the Crown Inn next door. The Odeon was to be demolished in 1974, when shops would be built on the site.

Unique in Hertfordshire, Standon parish church has a detached bell tower and a porch at the west end rather than on the south wall.