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The name of this small settlement on the slopes of Wansfell Pike between Windermere and the Kirkstone Pass means exactly what it says - 'the trout stream' - and it stands above a stream with the same name

The Troutbeck valley is one of the quietest in the Lake District, and in this view, taken from the old coach route between Windermere and Penrith, the essentially rural nature of much of the district

The New Inn, on the edge of the village, is on the Daventry to Warwick turnpike, and the name suggests it may have been opened because of the turnpike traffic.

They were likened by Dickens to the bars of a gridiron. Congested with cottages, whitewashed yards and washing lines, they were the home ground of the working population of the town.

This view shows clearly the entrance to the courtyard in the centre of the building.

The last of the Champneys family, Sir Thomas Mostyn, made many alterations to the park including the creation of the lake and a moat around the church.

Opened in 1874, on the site of a disused quarry on the edge of the town centre, the Arboretum is a surprisingly peaceful park where fat, contented ducks loaf around a pool.

The Queen's Hotel was built in 1837 at a cost of £47,000.

This picture captures reminders of road transport old and new. In the foreground is a toll house, a vestige from the days of horse-drawn coaches that paid to use the road.

Norfolk is full of windmills - there used to be one on every piece of elevated land.

Ramsey attained early importance with the foundation of its abbey in 969. It survived for around five hundred years until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century.

At the southern end of Lion Street, near its junction with Market Street, is Rye's large parish church of St Mary the Virgin, much of which is hidden by other buildings.

Continue east along London Road to Beaufort Buildings West and East, long gently curving terraces of 1791 to 1815.

Further downhill, at Fiveways, the road on the right is Fosse Lane. Here the Roman Fosse Way climbs out of the Avon valley to cross Banner Down on its way to Cirencester, the Roman town of Corinium.

Another iron-making village, situated on a tributary of the River Mole, Leigh (pronounced 'Lye') is centred on this demure, triangular village green with its covered pump.

Bolckow Road was the busy commercial centre of the Grangetown community, as we can see here from the wide selection of local shops and the parish church of St Matthew in the centre.

Councillor Frederick Monks of the Monks Hall Iron Foundry presented the Town Hall Gates to Warrington on Walking Day, 28 June 1895.

Warston Pictures proudly presents 'My Six Convicts' at its Cameo Cinema on the corner of Springfield Street, opposite Bank House (right.)

This is the interior of the 1881 addition to St Charles Borromeo church; the pictures on the walls show the stations of the cross.

Here we see the impressive edifice of the Queens Hotel, built in 1875 to cater for the large number of tourists who came to Saltburn for their holidays in the late Victorian period.

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

Feckenham once stood at the heart of Feckenham Forest, an ancient hunting ground of kings, which once covered some 200 square miles and included over 60 settlements.

Much of the rest of the building was replaced in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, chosen in 1888 for reasons of communication.