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The fortress is irregular in outline, as its builders decided to follow the contours of the land. Various de Camvilles added to the castle.

Here we see the western end of the lord's hall following its restoration.

Winter Hill is a noted beauty spot on the Berkshire side with views along the Thames. The hill rises about 180 feet above the river and gives superb views of the valley below.

Oakfield Corner, built around 1910 and part of the earlier phase of Amersham on the Hill's expansion, chose the vernacular and timber-framed tradition for its shops with flats above.

The Manchester merchant John Owen, who died on 29 July 1846, made a fortune by hard work and honest dealing.

The Town Hall was built on the site of the old chapel-of-ease. Its foundation stone was laid on 11th June 1845 and the cost of the building was £1,300.

This cluster of sparse conifers in Ampthill Park borders an entrance to the Cheshire Home for the Disabled that occupies a house built in 1686-88 for the Dowager Countess of Ailesbury and Elgin.

At the outset, the tenants of Vickerstown found that the only ways to gain access to Walney Island were to ford the channel at low tide - that way across is still possible - or to use the Furness Railway

Horncastle is one of the county's most ancient towns. There are still remains of its Roman walling which enclosed about seven acres.

Sir Robert Lumley was granted licences to crenellate in 1389 and 1392, making Lumley, along with Raby, one of County Durham's two late 14th-century castles.

During the reign of King John, Knaresborough served as a royal arsenal for the manufacture of crossbow quarrels.

High Street North is a relatively undistinguished and typical London suburban shopping street: the exuberance of the Town Hall complex is forgotten.

A number of these houses have been converted into shops to cater for the visitors and pilgrims who flock to this town and visit the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.

This shows the overflow pond which was the location of Constable's 'The Haywain' (1821).

The early cross which gives the square its name is prominent here, but the top of the tower of St David's Cathedral can be seen beyond the buildings on the right.

The fine old building on the right is used as the Town Hall. A blue plaque commemorates the fact that John Newman was burnt at the stake for his Protestant faith in August 1555.

This splendid photograph of this beauty spot was taken from a point on what is now called Witton Weavers Way, the Beamers Trail in picturesque Witton Park close to Blackburn.

The post mill, which stood to the north of the cottage, was built in 1829 and demolished in 1912. Mill Cottage and the converted barn called Granary House are all that remain of the mill complex.

This is a closer view of the Conyngham Restaurant with its extensive well laid-out grounds, which include swings and other children's facilities.

The salt mines underground are enormous, so large that miles and miles of road systems, big enough for double-decker buses, have been formed to travel around on; in fact there are 22 million cubic metres

Ardingly, pronounced Arding-lie, is situated to the north of Haywards Heath and is famous in Sussex as the setting for Ardingly College.

It is sad that with the development of a large shopping centre in Telford town centre, Oakengates no longer attracts shoppers as it once did - even the branch of Woolworth we see here has

At the time of this photograph, Hoskins, a family brewery in Beaumanor Road, Belgrave, in Leicester, owned this, their one public house.

The buildings here reflect the early 20th-century origins of Palmers Green; the triangle is all that remains of the original green.