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Bustling School Road has long been lined with shops and houses. There used to be an old forge here, with a shed used for destroying unwanted horses and ponies.

An idyllic scene: flowers in the foreground, the lake and the boat house against a setting of trees and shrubs — but the chimney of Bank Hall Colliery is a reminder that we are in Burnley.

Surrounded by fashionable tall lodging houses, it provided a more sheltered alternative promenade to the windy sea front.

In 1769 William Smith was born in a house in Churchill which still survives.

This jetty was only used at high tide.The view shows more of the terraces of fine houses built above the cliffs, including Royal Terrace.

Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).

The houses in this view are (starting with the closest): Gate Cottage, Fernley, Hill View and the thatched Park Farmhouse. The George Inn is further along on the left.

Once the site of the old asylum, Barnwood, which comes after Hucclecote, gives access onto Eastern Avenue and the new developments that house commercial DIY stores and electrical businesses.

Nearby is Gaping Gill, which has an underground chamber large enough to house a cathedral.

This peaceful view of Minster shows its pleasant old houses. Minster has the dubious claim to fame of being the site of the world's first fatal motor-car accident.

Wycombe Abbey School's first architect, was commissioned by the school to build boarding houses, classroom blocks and dormitories, which were mostly built between 1898 and 1902, with the chapel following

This quiet enclave of art gallery, library and Manor House flanks the church. Out of sight to the right is the Grammar School of 1913, now the offices of the Borough Council.

The village cottages and houses crowd down to the river, surrounded by luxuriant vegetation. St Peter's Church stands guardian on its knoll.

In the period from 1851 to 1881 there had been no increase in the town's population, and after the dock was opened many newcomers could move into the stock of existing houses.

The home of the de Hoghton family, the house (which is still there today) was mainly built in the reign of Elizabeth I.

Bede House dates from the 17th century, Monkton Farmhouse from the 18th century, and Grange Farmhouse from the late 17th to early 18th centuries.

Now no longer a pub, the Britons Arms on the left, built as a community of religious women in the 15th century, was the only house to survive a great fire in 1507.

On School Hill, several houses on the left, including the bow window, are clad in mathematical tiles, hanging tiles that simulate brick. They are difficult to tell from real brickwork if well done.

The Tudor House, with its magnificent stone slated roof, had a narrow escape from bombing in 1943.

The houses are all of an individual design. Some shops have encroached into this road.

The banks beside the road show how it has eroded with use over hundreds of years; because of this the houses and small cottages on Church Street have steps down to the pavement.

This view shows the substantial Victorian houses lining Peperharow Road. Note the water tower on the skyline, centre.

This delightful riverside town has fine Georgian streets and early 19th-century houses. Jerome K Jerome, who wrote 'Three Men in a Boat', lived near this part of the River Thames in Marlow.

Situated a few miles south-east of Holywell, Halkyn is not really a castle but a castellated country house, one of a number once owned by the Dukes of Westminster.