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The original church dates back to about 1480; it is thought to have been built by the monks of Abingdon Abbey.

Tilly Whim Caves 1894 Tilly Whim Caves, on the coast west of Swanage, are a strange mixture of quarrying and erosion.

Finely situated on the brow of a hill to the north-east of the village, the hydro offered guests the usual water treatments and dietary regimes.

There were hotels at or near most of the glens.

Grange is the hamlet at the foot of Borrowdale, where the River Derwent, seen on the left of this photograph, meanders through water meadows into mighty Derwent Water to the north.

An assortment of people are enjoying this wide open stretch of the river. The boat yard on the far bank - now under different ownership - offers 'Launches and Boats Built to Order'.

Only parts of the north and east wings remain; the great range of stables has gone. James II dined here in 1688, failed to raise support and fled to London and exile.

This view looks south-east across the Mawddach estuary saltings towards the village, which lies on the south shore. The great bulk of Cadair Idris rises behind it.

The pupils of the school line the railings looking at the man with the camera. Branston is just two miles south of Burton, and at one time belonged to Burton Abbey.

The lower buildings on the right were demolished during the building of the Great Central Railway in the late 1890s.

Here we see the sturdy porticoed front of Botley's famous Market Hall, built in 1848.

During the Civil War, the old manor house was the headquarters of the Parliamentarian army.

The aptly named Woodstock Gate, one of the main entrances to Blenheim Palace, lies just around the corner.

At this time there is a mix of motor and horse-drawn conveyances for the tripper.

St Mary's dates from the 15th century, and stands on the site of an earlier Knights Templar house.

At Fulking, 16th-century cottages still lie on either side of the village street that winds its way below the South Downs.

Included in this view (taken from the top of what is known as the Broomfields) is the old Willesborough Hospital.

Though Dr Boddington was most famous for his work with TB patients, he also cared for mentally ill patients at Driffold House Asylum at the corner of Wyndley Lane and The Driffold.

Brick and flint cottages, like the ones in this picture, are a familiar sight in parts of Hampshire and neighbouring West and East Sussex. By 1911 the population of the village was 2,786.

Today modern houses have replaced a number of the terraced cottages, but the three on the right still stand. The village also has a Wesleyan chapel of 1821 and the Lord Nelson Inn on Front Street.

This rambling village is a mixture of the old and the new. Here we see Terling Stores and Post Office.

St Andrew's is the mother church of Plymouth; there is evidence that a Christian community used the site as early as the 8th century. Construction of the present building commenced in 1370.

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

Tradition says that the church was built largely at the expense of the 'Swaffham pedlar' - one John Chapman, who was lucky enough to find two pots of gold in his garden after being guided to them in a