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One such three-day visit by the king in 1634 is said to have cost the Duke £15,000, a phenomenal amount of money in 17th-century England.

The spirelet is prominent in several vistas, a masterly touch by the architect George Goldie.

There is a fine memorial to the crew of HMS Hood - sunk by the German pocket battleship Bismarck in 1941.

By the time of the Spanish Armada in 1588, Weymouth managed to send out only six vessels.

The land it encloses was turned into a deer park by the Duke of Ormonde in 1662 and later landscaped and opened to the public by Lord Chesterfield in the 1740s.

This view looks towards a naked Stag Hill, now crowned by Guildford Cathedral and flanked by the University of Surrey. The Cathedral was begun in 1936 and completed in 1961.

The castle was transformed by the Bishops over the years into an elegant palace.

The Reindeer Inn on the left was originally a house called The Running Deer in 1740, owned by the Dunster family.

On the left are the extensive railway workshops erected by the Cornwall Mineral Railway, with the chimneys and waste tips of the old Par Consols Mine on the skyline.

It was the scene of the first action of the barons against Edward II, whose favourite Piers Gaveston held Scarborough at the time; despite surrendering, Gaveston was seized by the Earl of Warwick and summarily

By the time this picture was taken, it had become a highly fashionable watering-place to stay in the summer months. On the extreme right, the three-quarter mile pier can be glimpsed.

The poster on the wall by the tree advertises shipping to Canada and the United States, popular destinations for Cornish people forced to emigrate when the mining industry declined in the later 19th Century

The shops were built in two tiers - it is said that the architect, Donald Gibson, was inspired by the magnificent medieval Rows at Chester.

Construction began in the early 1930s on land donated by the Cadbury family, and the first patients were admitted in 1937.

There used to be a 17th-century water mill by the pool, but it was demolished in 1962, soon after this photograph was taken.

Its colonnaded frontage made it a distinctive and attractive building, but it was demolished in 1933, to be replaced by the hotel we see here.

The ancient market town of Knaresborough clings to the limestone bluff of a gorge carved by the River Nidd, and is famous for several things: the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century

There are refreshments booths, gingerbread sellers, seats to rent by the hour, and donkey rides.

One of the largest surviving 16th-century houses in the county, this magnificent house was owned by the de la Bere family until around 1831.

A few ruined walls in the estuary mark the site of Fort Charles, which was garrisoned by the royalist army for four months in 1646 during the English Civil War.

A few ruined walls in the estuary mark the site of Fort Charles, which was garrisoned by the royalist army for four months in 1646 during the English Civil War.

This splendid establishment was three years old in 1897, and had been created by a fortune left by the bachelor R J Campbell.

By the time of its demolition in 1971, the congregation had amalgamated with that of Baddow Road Congregational Church and built the new Christ Church on the site of a former brickyard in New London

On the River Erewash, close to the confluence of the Trent with Leicestershire's River Soar, this Derbyshire town was bisected by the Erewash Canal in 1779 and made readily accessible by