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The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.

Evesham Abbey held the Manor of Ombersley for several centuries until the Dissolution, its abbots often residing there. In the early 17th century it came into the possession of the Sandys family.

At the foot of Roseberry Topping is the hamlet of Newton under Roseberry, and in this view we see the Kings Head Inn (extreme right).

The building was named after William Fitzherbert, who was the great-grandson of William the Conqueror.

The square was resurfaced after the Second World War; we see it here at about the time of Sir Winston Churchill's death, which was in 1965.

This group of buildings next to the church was built in the 16th century on the site of a medieval castle. Traces of the motte and the moat are still visible in the garden.

The County Hotel is one of the main hotels in the centre of Kendal; it dominates this part of the old town, whose wealth was founded on the woollen and textile industries.The famed Kendal bowmen at

He wrote some of his best known poetry here.The cottage is now part of a museum dedicated to the life and work of the poet—the founder of the Lakeland Romantic Movement.

At the time this photograph was taken, the Parade was the home of ship brokers, accountants and members of the legal profession, many of whom worked in Cardiff.

On the border between Dorset and Hampshire, Alderholt lies on the edge of the great medieval hunting ground of Cranborne Chase.

Whitewashed houses and pantiled roofs characterise this photograph of the deserted Main Street of Green Hammerton, a small village in the Vale of York and on Roman Dere Street, just off the main A59 Harrogate

The County Hotel is one of the main hotels in the centre of Kendal; it dominates this part of the old town, whose wealth was founded on the woollen and textile industries.

He wrote some of his best known poetry here. The cottage is now part of a museum dedicated to the life and work of the poet - the founder of the Lakeland Romantic Movement.

The Witterings are seaside villages of bungalows, chalets and caravans on the Selsey peninsula, a flat area south of Chichester. The Norman church of the Assumption was rebuilt in 1875.

Lord Arthur Lee pub stands as a reminder of the man who is best remembered for giving Chequers to the nation - Chequers is the official country residence of the Prime Minister.

When Lord Ashley married Harriet Chichester, the only surviving child and heiress of the 3rd Marquess of Donegall, his father may have made it plain that if he was to become an Irish landlord he would

Equidistant between Pickering and Castleton is the historic village of Rosedale. The small Cistercian abbey housing 10 nuns was formed in 1158. A tower is the only remaining part of the abbey itself.

In 1956 Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone opened a Methodist church in Langdon Hills, and in the following year the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visited Kingswood Junior School, officially opened

At the top of the High Street on the right is the Cowes Advertiser office, but just before that is the NSPCC charity shop.

The wharf tells of another watery enterprise.

As we leave the town in an easterly direction towards Skelton, our last view of Guisborough, and the resting place of generations of Gisborians since being opened in 1872, is the town's cemetery.

The coloured cliffs of Alum Bay are one of the most enduring sights on the Isle of Wight as far as visitors are con- cerned.

William I founded Battle Abbey on Senlac Moor, the site of the Battle of Hastings. The small town of Battle grew up when the people who built and maintained the abbey and its buildings settled there.

The most striking feature of this view of Bakewell church's choir and east end are the mass of brightly-coloured paintings which adorn the walls.