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The second highest part of Bodmin Moor is Rough Tor, at 1311 feet.

Today there are many more large villas here, including those of Fosterville Crescent. Mr Foster, the builder, showed his pride in his work by occupying the largest of the new houses.

The paintings that formed the basis of Britain’s national collection were purchased for £57,000 in 1824 from J Angerstein.The exhibition halls created on the north side of Trafalgar Square to display

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

This view looks towards Bay Fine, Aldrick and the Calf of Man.

The Irish Sea can be as flat as a mill pond, but when an easterly, south-easterly or north-easterly gale blows up, this is what happens at Douglas.

Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles', where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious 'Flower-de-Luce'.

The tiny church of St Olaf at Wasdale Head is said to be among the smallest in England; but surrounded as it is by the dramatic mountains of Wasdale, it is also one of the most visited.

A little later, the year before the First World War started, the great boating craze of the later Victorian and Edwardian years is still in full swing.

This view captures well the character of much of the Thames estuary: a somewhat bleak, flat shoreline and a smudge of distant chalk hills on the Kent side.

Felton stands on the north bank of the Coquet, and it was here that the Great North Road once crossed the river by way of the old bridge featured in the picture.

It is of 14th-century origin, and has some 16th-century and Victorian restoration work.

These large houses stand in an idyllic situation on the cliffs above the Channel overlooking St Margaret's Bay.

St Peter's is the parish church of Barnstaple. This present building was erected in the 13th century on the site of a previous church.

In the 1660s Kinver was the scene of an unsuccessful attempt by Andrew Yarranton to make the Warwickshire Stour navigable from Stourbridge to Stourport-on-Severn.

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

This view shows the Victorian mansion and one of the more conventional parts of its fasci- nating gardens.

The distinctive profile of the Nab dominates the harbour of Staithes.

On the left we have Porter & Sons, wholesale glass and china merchants, and the imposing bulk of the Guildhall with its porticoed entrance supported on Corinthian columns.

It is not difficult to see why the grassy inner ward of this formidable castle became one of the picnic destinations of Rudolf Hess.

By this time, the two-mile-long concrete promenade at Felixstowe had been constructed, offering a pleasant walkway between the gardens of the hotels on the left and the shingle beach on the right of this

Chesil Beach, seen here from the Isle of Portland, is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

The old coaching inn known as the Rainbow was one of the many which had run back from Kendal's main streets since the Middle Ages.

The focus of the town is the triangular medieval market place, with the best buildings on its south side: the Old Vicarage of 1805 with its Venetian ground floor windows, mansard roof and battlemented