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Oxford's superb Town Hall building dominates this picture of the city centre. At the bottom of the photograph is Queen Street, named after Queen Charlotte, wife of George III.

Grimspound, a few miles north of the village of Widecombe, is one of the finest examples of a Bronze Age village in Europe. It lies half a mile off the road to the right.

This sought-after village grew up at the head of Mylor Creek.

As an important cathedral city, Winchester established an important tradition of tending the sick, probably from the days when pilgrims came to the shrine of St Swithun in search of miraculous cures

The bridge in the foreground of this photograph leads over the River Leven to a car park designated for the use of patrons of Suggitts ice cream parlour, something of an institution in

Once surrounded by the deer-haunted woods and heaths of Cranborne Chase, Alderholt has kept much of its original character, despite some new houses and a church of little antiquity; the latter is a building

Elsecar was one of the many collieries which formerly existed in the South Yorkshire coalfield around the village of Hoyland.

The village stands at the edge of the park of Holkham Hall, the palatial 18th-century home of Thomas Coke, later Earl of Leicester.

Thomas Cubitt purchased Denbies in the autumn of 1850; he had come to Dorking and Ranmore at the height of his very successful building career.

The impressive Victoria Tower of the Town Hall rises to a height of 162 feet.

The canal with its towing path, a symbol of an industrial age, has taken on a mantle of leisure.

Here we have another view of Whitehall, and the adjoining properties of Laurel Cottage and Vault Cottage along the Malden Road, with the elegant rectory beyond which, in its earliest parts, dates back

The name of the Peak District town of Chapel-en-le-Frith means literally 'the chapel in the forest'.

The Pilot's Pier light sits on a long promontory extending from the sea wall, and cargo shipping and the associated tug boats pass by it on their way in and out of the port.

There is no known record of the history or appearance of this castle, which is situated eight miles south-west of Cardiff.

Hugh Lupus, the first of the Norman earls of Chester, is said to have ordered the construction of a weir so that the mills would have a regular source of water power.

Lympstone is still a secretive little village on the estuary of the River Exe, once a haunt of fishermen and smugglers and now beloved of artists and birdwatchers.

This part of Blackburn Road was a hive of activity with lots of shops.

This photograph is taken from the junction of Market Street and Upper Market Street, looking down towards the High Street.

From the slopes of Quarry Hill, above Park Farm (centre), we look south-westwards to Golden Cap (left of centre) and Langdon Hill.

Because of its history of divided land ownership, it is difficult to determine the real centre of Mobberley village, but each nucleus has at least one inn.

Built in the 18th century, the Rowton Hall Country House Hotel and Health Club, as it is now called, stands at the southern edge of the city of Chester.

This view of Cottesmore is typical of Rutland's visual feast of limestone and ironstone villages, set in a rolling, spired landscape of hedges and walls which the hunt can, in the main, take in its stride

Situated at the southernmost end of the Isle of Thanet, the bay is bounded by cliffs on the north, and by marshes to the south.