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It was Queen Victoria who originally argued the need for such a hospital; its objective was to care for the gravely-afflicted casualties of war.

Close to the buttress nearest the camera, W S Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, sleeps under the widespread wings of a white angel; Gilbert lived at Grimsdyke, a house by Norman Shaw, to the north

The large very attractive Saxon village on the road from Oakham to Stamford now overlooks the modern dam on the north-east angle of Rutland Water formed in the valley of the River Gwash,

Along Padleys Lane, which curves north out of the village amid 1950s and later estate houses, we pass Burton Joyce Primary School.

Along the north bank of the Canch is a footpath that leads east to Priorswell Road, with the Memorial Gardens on the right bank behind the trees that line it.

Perhaps the south-west quoin of the nave is Saxon, and the south doorway is certainly reminiscent of the 1200s, as is the north doorway.

Half a mile north of New Mill is a complex of reservoirs; they were built by the Grand Junction Canal in the 1830s to store water for the Marsworth Flight of locks, whereby the canal descends from the

This is the original Adelphi Hotel: it was built in c1840 on the site of Adelphi Gardens by the Midland Railway Company, and was in direct competition with the London North Western Railway Hotel, which

Apparently one of these stones still exists and can be seen on the north side of Ivelet Bridge.

Lechlade stone was used to build St Paul's Cathedral; it was brought from 10 miles north down to Taynton Quarry. The town is dominated by the Market Place and the church of St Lawrence.

Lying in the tranquil Rye valley two miles west of Helmsley, Rievaulx was the first Cistercian monastery in the North of England. It was built in 1131 by French monks.

This view looks north towards the Market Place and captures well the character of this market town, most of whose 19th- and late 18th-century buildings still line the streets.

before tarmac, the roads around Stamford were topped with limestone that made them dangerously slippery for cyclists; indeed, cycle guides of the late 19th century wrote off this stretch of the Great North

It was originally on the fields of North Stoneham Farm where Eric Moon landed a light aircraft in 1910.

Buxted Park is north-east of Uckfield; the medieval parish church, dedicated to St Margaret of Scotland, a rare dedication, sits in isolation in the park near the mansion, Buxted Place.

The town`s main north-south thoroughfare was then largely residential with the only prominent shopfront being that of Turner`s Corn and Seed Stores (left), advertising Lipton`s Teas above the

Chalk stacks off Handfast Point, the north-eastern extremity of the Purbeck Hills, display the dynamics of coastal erosion.

The remarkable features of this shot, north-eastwards from a timber jetty, actually stand between the buildings - the Haven Hotel (centre right), an 1898-built villa (left) in an acre of land that was

Torrisholme was once a hamlet two miles north-west of Lancaster, and was one of the three villages which combined with Bare and Poulton-le-Sands to make up Morecambe around 130 years ago.

The view looks north-eastwards from between Langmoor Gardens and the former bathing-machine steps to the Bay Hotel (centre).

North-west of Godalming, Compton is famed for the Watts Gallery and Chapel, commemorating the Victorian painter George Frederick Watts.

It was long known to motorists on the A23 London to Brighton road for the major hold-ups at its traffic light junction with Star Lane, just out of view to the left.

The River Thames curves eastward north of the village and then converges towards Church Street, some of whose gardens have a water frontage.

Church Lane runs north from the High Street towards its eastern end, with St Peter's Church a short way along it. The tower is 15th-century, but most of the rest was rebuilt in Victorian times.