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The house on the right stands on the corner of Castle Street, a reminder that the town once had a Norman castle. Murphy televisions and radios are proudly advertised on the banner (left).

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.

The corners of the squat tower of St Mary's are adorned with ornate buttresses. The lower part of the tower is medieval; the upper part was rebuilt after it collapsed in 1608.

Virginia creeper has now spread to every inch of stonework on the 18th-century house (centre right). On the skyline, in the gap, are the three-storey lines of Grove House in Rax Lane (right).

Much of the life of the town revolves around the Saturday influx to the weekly market.

Our brief tour of Lincoln's surrounding villages begins to the west in Doddington village.

Around the corner in Elms Road (which retains many of its mid-Victorian villas) is the Henry Thornton School, within the same site as the Marianne Thornton (C327056) and also part of the Clapham Centre

The great age of the market cross, with its uneven steps and remains of the punishment stocks, is apparent. A Market Charter was granted in the 14th century.

In the 1960s, the pace of building new housing quickened. Caton is popular as a retreat for commuters, who enjoy the moorland country near by with its fine views of Morecambe Bay.

Billy Banks Wood, prominent in views from Castle Walk, is ancient 'hanging' woodland clinging to limestone rock on the south bank of the River Swale just west of Richmond Castle.

The King's Head's three doorways can be seen, and the inn-signs of a carved bunch of grapes and a portrait of King Charles II.