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When Richard I was away fighting in the Third Crusade, the Mount was seized for John by Henry de Pomeroy, though it was subsequently retaken by Richard, who stationed a permanent garrison here.

In 1895 Elder Dempster had introduced an Avonmouth-Quebec-Montreal summer service, with winter sailings calling at Halifax and St John's, New Brunswick.

The church of St John the Baptist dominates this readily-recognisable street scene on the crown of the hill.

The Guild of St. Mary was founded in 1218 to protect privileges granted to Chesterfield by King John.

The building with the bellcote beyond, now St John's Ambulance Brigade, was built in about 1910 and has recently been shortened, thus exposing more of the gable of No 11 beyond.

The bank on the left has its long frontage to St Paul's Square, and is now a Ladbroke's betting shop.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

The church of St John the Baptist is mainly 13th-century and has a wood-shingled broach spire. The village has many historic houses.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

Rebuilt in 1867 by John Loughborough Pearson, the architect of the eastern extension of Wakefield Cathedral, the parish church of St Helen looks down on the town's market place.

The church of St Nicholas which dominates this view was redesigned in 1863 by Anthony Salvin.

Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

After his trial for treason at Northampton in 1164, Thomas à Beckett escaped from St Andrew's Priory.

Firmly back in Bedfordshire and heading south, our route passes through Blunham, a most attractive village, where the poet John Donne was rector from 1622 until his death in 1632, although he was also

Buckinghamshire's County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s. It was given a more ornate entrance building in the 1860s, including the tower.

This is the splendid 12th-century church of St Michael and All Angels with its Norman arches.

St Mary's was built between 1877 and 1878 by John Cundall in brick with a prominent steeple. The interior is brick-lined. The tower was a mere 75 feet high and has been cemented over.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778.

Burns died in 1796 at the age of 36 and is buried in St Michael's Church. It was here, in February 1306, that Robert Bruce killed John Comyn the Red.

The St Dunstan's factory wing (right) was built in 1919.

The heart of Georgian Weymouth overlooks the sands from the Gloucester Hotel (top left) and the Royal Hotel (centre left), in a broad sweep around to the Victorian spire of St John's Church and Brunswick

The school in the background was founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul's, to provide education for 144 boys.

Prominent for many miles, St Mary's has dominated the hill since at least the 12th century. It has always been an extremely important church as a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

To the east of the Old Church, but sharing its graveyard, is the Church of St John The Evangelist. The view of this ragstone building, designed by Henry Clutton in 1894, has changed very little.