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Evesham is a good place to begin an exploration of the Vale around, the River Avon and the not too distant Cotswolds.

Like Broadfield Park, the grounds were developed as a mixture of formal and informal areas with breathtaking lawns and a lake.

The magnificent late 12th-century priory church of St Mary and St Michael was founded in 1190 by William Marshall, Baron of Cartmel.

The parish church of St Mary dates from about 1141, though much restoration work was carried out during the Victorian era.

It is one of the smallest churches in England - it seats about 20 people. All that remains today is part of the chancel of a once much larger 13th-century church.

Looking out over Druridge Bay, the rectangular three-storey tower of the late 14th to early 15th centuries takes its name from the Cresswell family.

The village was created at the turn of the century to house construction workers for the very large brick-built Christ's Hospital school nearby.

Here we see another view of the street, which was cut in early Victorian times to become a channel of trade and industry. The vista extends to Cromac.

The vicar of Holy Trinity Church in the mid 19th century was the Rev Edward Lyon Berthon.

Here we have a busy and bustling view of Northgate. The Town Hall did not need or get a clock, because the Market Hall had the town's clock on a free-standing tower in front of it.

On non-market days, the centre of St Ives was a quiet and unhurried place.

St Peter's stands in meadows beside the Usk, to the left of the A40 and just beyond the western outskirts of Abergavenny.

Moreton was a market town for the woollen industry in centuries past, and it was also an important centre for the linen weaving industry and a coaching town in the days of horse-drawn travel

Approach from the south, over a brook and through trees, to the 15th-century tower and slender recessed crocketed spire of St Mary's, standing over 200 feet high.

This fine pink granite church, mainly of the 15th century, is well sited at the head of Church Street. Its solid clasping buttressed and battlemented tower rises in four stages.

Despite a number of attempts at regeneration, the Lido at Ainsdale was an early casualty of the national move to overseas holidays.

This photograph shows the remains of the weir added across the top of the waterfall to increase the power to the nearby Castle Mill, which was extended by the paper maker James Cooke in 1865

This photograph shows the remains of the weir added across the top of the waterfall to increase the power to the nearby Castle Mill, which was extended by the paper maker James Cooke in 1865

The foundations of Harewood House were laid in 1759, and work continued for the next 23 years. Gawthorp Hall was demolished, and its foundations now lie beneath the lake.

The entrance to the tower is on the second floor and reached only by a ladder. Loch Leven has a small irregular courtyard, known as a barmkin, which is enclosed by a curtain wall.

Many would remember their best friends as, say, `Six` or `Twenty-three` for the rest of their lives.

Detail abounds in this more intimate shot of the row of shops immediately east from the Town Hall and the Greyhound Hotel. All the windows are full of offerings from floor to ceiling.

In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.

One of the founders of the Infirmary had been Dr White, and it was his son Charles who made many changes and advances in the treatment of women.