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Warwickshire's vernacular architecture characteristically uses a mixture of building materials; with stone in the Cotswolds, for instance, and an abundance of timber in the formerly well-wooded areas of

The Truro River promises visitors exquisite scenery, its broad banks enriched with lush green woods.

Nestling among expansive woods and fields, St Neot is famed for its church, with its magnificent 14th century stained glass windows.

Perched among orchards on steep wooded slopes above the Fowey river, this picturesque village is renowned for cider making.

Across the valley behind, known as Rifts Wood, is the footbridge known as the Ha'penny Bridge - a reference to the toll which was levied when crossing the bridge.

Lying at the foot of wooded limestone slopes to the east of Cringlebarrow, these rendered stone cottages, with pronounced dripstones protecting their windows and doorways from the rain, are typical of

The central doors, which can just be seen in this photograph, were made by the famous wood carver, Thompson of Kilburn: his signature, a mouse, is carved on the right-hand door.

They include an eight- sided wood-panelled font and a 13th-century chest with triple locks.

In the village is a 19th-century church, and these peaceful woods are now the property of the National Trust.

The building on the left was once a warehouse for storing wood and coal, which was brought up stream by barge.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises 800 feet at the back of the town.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

Notice the various building materials used, from flint and stone on the right to thatching and wood panelling beneath the half-hip gable of the barn on the left.

Boscombe was built across a wooded chine, a wide ravine, that leads down to the sea; chines are common on this coast.

The trees of Low Wood stretch out into the lake, while the steep scree-clad slopes of Illgill Head—the famous Wasdale Screes—soar up the southern shores.

Queen Victoria much admired the town of Dartmouth and its beautiful estuary, recording in her journal that '...the place is lovely, with its wooded rocks and church and castle at the entrance.

Middleton – its full name is Middleton- by-Wirksworth – was a quarrying and mining village which produced the famous Hopton Wood stone.

Nestling deep in a wooded valley, the tranquillity of this view is a world away from the busy A287 that runs through here today.

A Victorian party linger beside the 'dripping well' in the deep wooded Fairlight Glen.

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

The wooded islands of Derwent, Lord's and St Herbert's are clearly visible, as are the background Newlands Fells.

The Dripping Well in Anchor Woods was a popular spot with the Victorians. To the left, a kissing gate gives onto a path which now leads to the Tarka Trail.

With its modern tower and spire rising 140 feet above Twyford, the handsome church looks out across woods and meadows towards the bank of the Itchen.

In 1926, a mineral well was discovered in Martinhole Wood, just below the hill.