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Built at the end of Washbank Road, Eynesbury, on the site of one of the earliest St Neots` crossings of the Ouse, Conygear takes its name from the nearby rabbit warren owned by Margaret, Countess of

All, however, make a point of listing a marble memorial to the life of Col Richard Nicolls who captured the Dutch Colonial city of New Amsterdam on behalf of the English Crown - and then renamed it New

Tattershall was extensively rebuilt by Ralph Cromwell, a veteran of Agincourt, and Lord Chancellor of England.

Norwich is known as 'the City of Churches', and All Saints' is one of forty; it has an ancient font finely carved with figures of saints and the twelve apostles.

Newgate Street is one of the features of the town -it marks the line of a section of the old Roman road of Dere Street.

The slopes to the rear of West Street are still green, and the view at the end of the 20th century is a little less smoke-hazed.

The c hurch of St Peter de Merton is of great interest, for it contains Anglo-Saxon work. The present chancel was the nave of the first church, while the tower was added after the Norman Conquest.

This village stands on the south-west edge of the Isle of Ely. In the 17th century the fens around Sutton were drained by farmers with the help of wind pumps.

East of Crowborough the tour reaches Wadhurst, once a village of importance in the Wealden iron industry and now a quiet and typical High Weald village.

Within 15 years of being built the bridge needed to be widened so that today it carries four lanes of traffic.

Henry III ordered the Keeper of Windsor Forest to deliver to Andrew, Sergeant of Caversham, one good oak to make a boat for ferrying poor people over the water of Caversham.

The Vale of Glamorgan used to grow a great deal of corn, ensuring ample straw for thatching, and the pretty village of Merthyr Mawr is entirely made up of whitewashed, thatched houses.

To the north-east of Masham and three miles south of Bedale, Snape Castle was once the home of Katherine Parr, sixth and last wife of Henry VIII.

The earliest mention of the provision of education in Leeds dates from 1552 when William Sheafield, chantry priest of St Catherine, left property to support the upkeep of a schoolmaster.

Founded in 1147, Roche Abbey was a colony of Newminster in Northumberland, itself a daugh- ter of the great Cistercian abbey of Fountains.The abbey took its name from a cross-like rock that

Writing in 1822, Edward Baines said of the area that 'on the whole, Saddleworth is an interesting, though an uninviting part of the country, and the Mountaineers of this region, like those of Switzerland

Founded in 1147, Roche Abbey was a colony of Newminster in Northumberland, itself a daughter of the great Cistercian abbey of Fountains.

Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.

Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.

One of the first known owners of the property was a member of the Brocke family by the name of Ayre. The earliest boundary was north of the stream known now as the Pip Brook.

In early days the royal manor of Lyndhurst was often granted to the queens of England. Henry III gave it to Eleanor of Castile, the wife of Edward I.

It was at Catterick in AD 625 that Paulinus, first Bishop of York, baptised converts to Christianity, following the marriage of King Edwin of Northumbria to Ethelburga of Kent.

Hanmer takes the name of one of the great aristocratic families of the Borderlands.

Four immense bronze lions by Landseer guard the foot of the memorial.