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During the prim Victorian era, to discard even one item of clothing would have been unthinkable. Despite the shingle, patches of sand uncovered at low tide made the beach a popular attraction.

Ainderby Steeple lies to the west of Northallerton. Here we see the 15th-century church of St Helen.

The church in the distance is that of St Mary, built in 1833. In the centre is the Mounts Bay Hotel (right) and the Queen's Hotel (left, with turret).

Having survived the great fire of 1583, St Mary's Church is the oldest building in the town.

A short distance from the coast road, modern village developments and camp sites many be found near East Runton Green or Lower Common.

This wooden bridge was built over the River Llugwy so that the miners living in the village of Pentre Du could get to the lead mines of the Gwydir Forest.

With the spread of suburbs around the larger settlements, functional but small shopping centres were established to cater for a growing population, with handy parking for the increasing number of car owners

Ified was once a typical rural settlement surrounded by open countryside, but these days it is part of Crawley New Town.

William Wordsworth must have looked out from these mullioned windows of the ancient Grammar School, where he was educated between 1779 and 1787.

The estuary of the River Exe around Topsham is one of the finest places in Britain for bird- watching.

Newick is situated halfway between two great Christian centres of worship—Canterbury and Winchester—so the village was used as a resting-place for pilgrims.

There are stooks of freshly-cut hay, drying in lines of little pyramids, across Hammond Mead (behind the horses). Cain's Folly (centre) and Golden Cap overlook Lyme Bay.

Rousdon, now part of Combpyne civil parish, nestles above the great coastal landslip between Axmouth and Lyme Regis.

West Hill House, right, at the corner of Market Hill and Quarr Barton, is Grade II* listed; it was the home and surgery of Dr James for 42 years.

Osmotherley on the eastern edge of the North York Moors is perhaps best known to walkers as the usual starting point of the marathon 40-mile Lyke Wake Walk, which crosses the moors by their highest points

Viewed from the post office, this memorial to Queen Victoria is known as the Pepperpot because of its shape.

The inside of the church looks rather different today. The nave walls have been plastered and whitewashed and the chancel ceiling embellished.

It was here that Sir John Millais painted that most famous of pictures, 'The Boyhood of Raleigh'.

The promenade footpath was built in the late 1800s so that the increasing number of visitors and holiday-makers could enjoy the 'curative powers of the sea air'.

The High Street is one of the roads that crossed the green. In the foreground is a pair of cottages with a thatched roof.

A RAC or AA motorcycle rider, without his motorbike, is walking past a row of Elizabethan houses in Friday Street. Henley, with its medieval street plan, has over 300 listed buildings.

Ingoldisthorpe is an open village on the sandy soils of north-west Norfolk.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Kenilworth was a small town with about 4,500 inhabitants.

Victorian tourists would walk the six miles across Ballard Down to see these unusual rock formations on the coast near to Swanage.