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It was now firmly on the map: its narrow crowded alleys and harbourside streets, its ruined abbey and its souvenirs made from jet, fossilised wood found in the local area, proved a magnet for day trippers

With the Hough on the left and looking towards Waterfall and Clockhouse Woods, the path up the Edge, originally an old right of way from the Hough over to Macclesfield, has recently been

The waters of Stock Ghyll rise just below the summit of the Kirkstone Pass, north of the town, and plunge through this wooded gorge before joining the River Rothay and eventually entering

The name Ockley comes from 'Occa's lea` - a Saxon who made a clearing in the wood here.

In the background are Hawkbatch and Seckley Woods.

The wooded and beautiful Luxulyan valley is a magnet for lovers of industrial archeology, with its 1839 Treffry viaduct and aqueduct linking the mining and china clay industries with the coastal ports.

Before Bullenshaw House was built, the area was wooded and provided a natural playground for youngsters. During the war two air-raid shelters were built into the hill.

This photograph somehow conveys the feel of a picturesque West Country creek, with its thickly wooded shore and little boats stranded at low tide. The scene has changed little today.

The superb wood carving dates from 1380, and on the misericords it depicts vivid scenes of medieval life and legend.

The waters of Stock Ghyll rise just below the summit of the Kirkstone Pass, north of the town, and plunge through this wooded gorge before joining the River Rothay and eventually entering Windermere.

Behind the pub and the house rears the wooded slopes of Anstiebury Camp, one of Surrey's finest Iron Age hillforts, dating from the second century BC; its ramparts enclose over 11 acres.

The sign by the people on the footpath advertises Woods, Coal & Coke Merchants, later to become 'Punch' Mullard's builder's yard and presently, Spinningfield House flats.

This view, from Parson's Hill between the deep tree-filled Hawk Combe and the A39, looks across the small town below to Hurlstone Point.

This water-mill, powered by a hidden undershot wheel, stands on the bank of the river Bure, and is built of entirely of wood. There are two large millstones leaning on the small annexe.

Like many abbeys and monasteries up and down the country, this former Cistercian monastery was dissolved in the reign of Henry VIII.

Gweek was at one time a port of some significance at the head of the tidal Helford River, which lies between the buildings and the wooded hillside.

The picturesque cliffs, coves, glens and wooded scenery that surround Hastings appealed to the Romantic tastes of the years after 1800.

Temple Newsam was bought by Leeds Corporation in 1922 from Edward Wood, the future Lord Halifax.

Temple Newsam was bought by Leeds Corporation in 1922 from Edward Wood, the future Lord Halifax.The first house known to have been built here belonged to Thomas, Lord Darcy, who was executed for

This smithy in this Wealden hamlet snuggled beneath the woods below Leith Hill was still busily occupied in the repair of farm machinery and the shoeing of horses.

Balderstone Grange and Balderstone CE Primary School stand on Commons Lane, which eventually joins Higher Commons Lane.

The poet Dylan Thomas lived here for the last four years of his life, and it is now a heritage centre devoted to him.

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

This once thickly-wooded dell on both sides of the River Spodden had been thinned out somewhat by the 1890s.