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The New Shambles, off Finkle Street, was built in 1803. The word 'shambles' comes from the Old English 'sceamol', which originally meant a bench for the sale of meat.

Frith's photographer could not resist one of the most photographed views along the Thames: Windsor Castle on its cliff-top towering above the town and river.

As we pass beneath the bridge, still on the Egham bank, the 18th-century Swan Hotel on the right now also occupies the boathouse and garage in front of it, behind the ladies with their parasols.

Things fall off a bit when the High reaches Carfax, at the corner of St Aldate's Street and Cornmarket Street.

Guarding the road from the south, the Hotspur Gate was built in 1450; a licence to fortify the Border town of Alnwick had been granted in 1434.

Stour, two miles south-west of Chilham. In the main street of the village, we see a nice picket fence and some typically ivy-clad buildings.

Now only a hamlet, this village was once well-known for the quarrying of Bethersden marble; apart from being used locally, it was used for interior work in both Canterbury and Rochester cathedrals, and

In 1627 Richard Foley opened a slitting mill at Hyde in Kinver for the purpose of cutting iron rods into suitable lengths for nailers.

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.

It is said that Drummond was sitting under the great sycamore tree in front of the house when Jonson trudged up the path. Drummond met him with 'Welcome, welcome, royal Ben!'

The lower part of this strange structure is Roman; it was the west corner of the Roman fort. The upper part is 14th-century. Inside, there is a small ruined tower.

Brown Candover's spired church was built in 1845 by the first Lord Ashburton, replacing an earlier place of worship demolished the previous year.

The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who

The stream is actually the River Cober, which used to regularly flood this area of Lower Green.

There was a castle at Aylesbury, but its location is unknown: only the name of Castle Street commemorates it. Here the photographer looks uphill towards Temple Square.

Viewed from the west, the facade of the west front is dominated by the Great West Window and the Triple Arch Door. The west front of many cathedrals were intended to be showpieces.

Like many other shopping streets in Salisbury, Fisherton Street has changed very little over the last fifty years, in spite of most of the shops themselves moving or closing down and being replaced

The town of Wadebridge falls within the parish of St Breock, but the church lies in a quiet valley nearly a mile away.

On the right is that ubiquitous feature of west country beaches, the lime kiln.

The Esplanade 1918 In 1870 the Victorian yachtsman Sir John Burgoyne brought the Empress Eugenie of France to the town after a perilous channel crossing.

Roughly east of Navenby, where the limestone descends to the flat east of the county, Metheringham is a large village with a mix of stone and brick older houses interspersed with Victorian and later development

Situated in woodland near the Midhurst to Cocking road, the Cobden Monument was erected in memory of Richard Cobden MP, an advocate of free trade and an anti-Corn Law agitator.

Chelwood Gate, a hamlet on the western side of Ashdown Forest, lies between East Grinstead and Lewes. Today it is centred on a long main street.

Woods Corner is a hamlet in the parish of Dallington, about four miles north-east of Herstmonceux.