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The town has recovered its air of prosperity after the hardships and shortages of the war years, and its growing affluence is demonstrated by the number of cars parked beside the pavements.

Inside the largely 15th-century building, beside memorials to the lords of the manor, the Leghs of Adlington, there are early 18th-century wall paintings in the spandrels between the

On the left is Leeds' oldest shop, which dates from 1613 and is receiving a face lift. Further along the street on the right stands the Empire Theatre.

This one-street town is one of the most delightful in England; it is a special place to visit and an even better one to stay in, to use as a base for the exploration of Worcestershire.

In the centre a horse and cart stand by the pond; perhaps they have visited this spot so that the animal could have a drink of fresh water at Picklefoot Spring, which emerges here.

Although not a market day, there is still plenty of activity along the road.

Without the finials and pinnacles seen in earlier photographs of Christ Church it looks a much plainer building.

The first steam-powered vessel to sail on Windermere, the Lady of the Lake, was built by Richard Ashburner of Greenodd.

Here we have a lovely view of St Mary's, the parish church of Penwortham. The most famous person resting here must be John Horrocks, who founded his great cotton empire at Preston.

A blacksmith's forge used to stand beside this packhorse bridge spanning Winn Brook, one of eight bridges boasted by this tiny village. It was at Winsford that Ernest Bevin was born in 1881.

Canals totally changed the transportation of goods around the country - in fact, once a string of boats started to move, it was possible for a single horse to pull up to 20 boats, each laden with up to

In the 19th century this area of the town was prone to flooding, and the mill dam was blamed. In 1879 the Corporation bought the mill from Lord Stafford and built a new weir and floodgates.

Situated at the junction of Prince's Road and Hanger Hill, this was formerly called The Birches. By the 1960s it was divided into flats and bedsits.

Famously the second-highest point in Essex (the highest being a patch of undistinguished woodland in the parish of Langley), Langdon Hills certainly impressed the traveller Arthur Young.

Built in 1877, it was badly damaged in the three-night 'Blitz' of 1941 which claimed so many of Swansea's buildings (and not a few of its more unfortunate inhabitants).

The clunch and Barnack limestone vaulted undercroft, or basement, of the present house is all that remains of an upper hall of the Benedictine nunnery founded in the 12th century by Isabel the Bolebec.

The church of St Peter occupies an island site where the main street divides.

The large building on the right housed the premises of Cripps & Son, shoe retailers. Both the first and second floors were used as storage areas.

In the middle distance on the left are the masts of ships in the lee of Drake's Island.

Allington is a hamlet on the Medway just to the north of Maidstone. It is best known for its castle, situated hard by the River Medway. This view shows the excellent defensive site of the castle.

A typical Pennine farmstead, sheltered by a sycamore and standing on the edge of the moors, lies on the outskirts of Walsden.

A number of Dorset villages take their name from the River Piddle, or Puddle, as it is sometimes known.

Heading north-east out of Bath on the A4, cross the A46 junction onto the old A4, which soon becomes Batheaston High Street.

Walk along Brock Street, and you reach the quite extraordinary Royal Crescent of John Wood the Younger.