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Visible evidence of medieval Sultan is sparse, but remnants of the castle motte survive to the west of the parish church.

At the east end of the Parade, by the last slipway, is the Island Sailing Club (left), which was founded in 1889, and is amongst the largest in the world.

A number of sources quote Ampthill's parish church as being 10th century, without offering a precise dating.

The history of Finchale began in about 1115 when St Godric built himself a hermitage.

The village of Goudhurst has always ranked as one of the most graceful of the Kentish Weald. This view shows the hilly nature of the place, perched over 400 ft up.

Prehistoric Cams Most people enjoying a round of golf on the Cams Hall Estate today are probably unaware of the existence of the 429 pieces of worked flint that were recovered during topsoil stripping

The statues of Raphael and Michelangelo stand on the entrance steps to the Walker Art Gallery in William Brown Street.

Note the New Inn on the left of the picture, and how large the name-board of the publican was. The village policeman in his cape stands in the middle of the road.

The church of St Martin le Tours, on the right, was consecrated in 1962.

The church of St Lawrence is superbly positioned on the brow of a narrow spur offering splendid views to the north of the Greensand Hills.

With the waters of Lyme Bay visible beyond the Hillcliff grocery store further down this steeply-sloping street, the pleasing 18th-century façades of the shops and buildings frame this scene of late

Following the ferocious storms of 1286-88, the River Blyth was diverted, the harbour partly blocked and huge areas of land were devoured by the sea, all of which marked the beginning of the decline of

Opened in 1860 on what was then the edge of the town, Runcorn's cemetery was to replace the graveyard around All Saints' Church. It covers an area of 13 acres.

Elmley Castle is one of those delightful villages lying around the foot of Bredon Hill. Little now remains of the castle itself, once the stronghold of the Beauchamp family.

Port Talbot is an industrial town in the county of Glamorgan.

Cluntergate is one of the main roads leading out from the centre of Horbury, whose main claim to fame is that it was the birthplace of the famous 18th-century architect always, but erroneously, known as

Princess Charlotte, the only child of the loveless marriage between George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, made Crichel House her home for a time.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

Balsham was the site of a bloody battle in 1010. Local legend says that the only survivor of the massacre hid in the tower of the parish church of Holy Trinity.

This was built for the twelfth Earl of Eglinton by John Patterson of Edinburgh in c1798.

This steep-roofed brick building with rather a Gothic flavour, designed by G E Street, replaced a block of fives courts.

Standing in 270 acres of parkland, Raby Castle was the seat of the Neville family for two hundred years.

One of the five great fortresses of Northumberland, Alnwick fell into ruins owing in part to the fate of the Percy family and the destruction wreaked by Cromwell's troops.

A marvellously peaceful view of Lough Cloon, about eight miles north of Ballinrobe, one of the many lakes in this part of Mayo, of which the largest is Lough Mask.