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St John's Church, Kate's Hill was erected in 1840 at a cost of £3,000, four years ahead of the ecclesiastical parish it serves, which was created on 15 October 1844.

In the 18th century, Prestatyn was a centre for the lead-mining districts of north-east Wales.

The Hants and Sussex coach is parked outside Hill House, a former solicitor's home until it became a café restaurant in 1898.

The writer seems to recall it being more of a very popular pub than a busy hotel.

Southgate is the only surviving gate of the three that used to give access to the old walled town.

This view of the village on the hill from Hebden Road is dominated by the two big mills, the Ivy Bank Mills on the left and Bridgehouse Mill in the foreground.

A locomotive of the L C & D Railway has just left Holborn Viaduct Station and thunders south over the bridge, steam ballooining out over the roofs. Below, traffic crawls miserably up Ludgate Hill.

In Roman times a fort stood on nearby Brough Hill, and a garrison was maintained here from about AD 80 to around the end of the 4th century.

A Roman settlement on Stane Street and the navigable River Arun.

In this picture we see, left, the old school, in use until 1967, now the village hall. The Methodist chapel (1822), next, is still used.

The ridge of Hatterall Hill and the Black Mountains in the distance is the route for a walk with panoramic views to Hay Bluff.

This view is taken from the west, near the north-east corner of the Green, at the foot of Angel Hill. The fine west tower of All Saints dominates the scene.

This view is from beside the Ice House, its balcony covered in creeper, looking back down Castle Hill.

From Lansdown Road turn left into Camden Crescent, an ambitious project begun in 1788 on the slopes of Beacon Hill, which gave splendid views eastwards.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

Prestbury lies under the great bluff of Cleeve Hill, the destination of the tram, not the only mode of Edwardian travel in this photograph!

Photographed from the Yorkshire bank of the Ribble, the view looks across Sawley to Noddle Hill.

At the top of Pier Hill is Royal Terrace, so named because it was here that the Princesses Caroline and Charlotte stayed when visiting the town early in the 19th century.

The bridge over the stream in the foreground is an ancient stone slab or 'clapper' bridge; there are many of these in Exmoor, including the famous Tarr Steps across the River Barle, five miles

Noak Hill was popular with ramblers and cyclists between the World Wars and the Pentowen Cafe beyond the chapel was a favourite place to meet.

This view of the village on the hill from Hebden Road is dominated by the two big mills, the Ivy Bank Mills on the left and Bridgehouse Mill in the foreground.

The North Wall (right centre) has since been joined to the mainland (in 1979) by a random wall of rough boulders.

We are looking west as the A387 drops down into the hamlet to the bridge over the River Seaton at the bottom of the hill, before the road climbs up the other side on its way to Looe.

Old-style forage harvesting is going on in a pastoral view of Chideock and its valley.