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With its wall-mounted Victorian letterbox, modern telephone box, and window display of assorted goods, this little post office was of central importance to the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small

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 popular princess died at the age of 21.

Here we have a view of the Copper Horse on the summit of Snow Hill. Most of the Long Walk, including the Copper Horse, is within the boundary fence of a Deer Enclosure.

The highest point of the Cotswolds is on Cleeve Common, which covers an area of some three square miles.

This view looking east down Colne Road in the main street of the village of Cowling, near Keighley, shows the prominent monuments of Wainman's Pinnacle and Lund's Tower on the escarpment of Earl Crag on

Topsham, at the head of the Exe estuary, became a seaport of considerable importance in the Middle Ages.

The road descends northward to Middleborough beyond the line of the Roman wall.

In 1928 the foundation stone of the new Roman Catholic church was laid.

A short stroll from the toll bridge brings you to the little church of St Mary's. Above the altar hangs an impressive picture of the Last Supper.

On the left is the garden of Holly Lodge, the home of the Roman Catholic priest father Henry Aust-Lawrence, which was itself to be used as a place of worship in the period 1912-1915.

These thatched cottages are on either side of the road to Brent Pelham at the eastern, outer reaches of Anstey.

This is an Edwardian building, but there has been a house of this name here since at least the 18th century.

St George's was one of three churches built in Sheffield between 1825 and 1830 that were originally district chapels belonging to the parish church of St Paul's.

Northleach was once one of the most prosperous wool towns of the Cotswolds in the 15th century, and an important cross-roads of the Fosse Way and the London-Cheltenham roads.

Rows of stone cottages surround the Cross in Geddington village centre, built in 1294 to commemorate Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I.

This atmospheric photograph of the Medina at Newport gives some idea of the harbour at the height of its pros- perity.

Built on the site of a palace of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the present house dates from 1728.

Chideock, always pronounced without the 'e', is set in a landscape of ancient ridgeways and rolling hills.

In summer months there is an atmosphere of palpable excitement here, as an endless stream of people winds its way down the hill into the heart of the town, turning at the old granite church of St Ia into

One of the wonders of the waterway system, the five rise locks at Bingley in West Yorkshire are part of the Leeds & Liverpool canal.

This picture, taken from the walkway of the bridge, gives us a panoramic view of the Alexandra Docks and the residential area of Pillgwenly.

Edgbaston is the most famous of all Birmingham’s suburbs.

The photograph looks from outside the present entrance to Hornsey Town Hall and towards the town centre soon after the completion of most of the buildings, and a decade before the influx of extensive but

Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) was the principal founder of the English garden city movement.