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Originally, College Green was the burial ground for the Augustinian abbey, founded by Robert Fitzhardinge in 1148, and for a hospital, founded jointly by Maurice Berkeley of Gaunt and his nephew, Robert

Joseph Fry senior had been involved in a number of business ventures and partnerships, but as a Quaker the manufacture of chocolate was especially important to him, as it was a temperance drink.

Because of the height of the clerestory, the east-facing clock face had to be sited higher up the tower than those on the other sides.

By the end of the 19th century, the cove was already attracting a great many visitors.

In 1810, Lewis Tregonwell built a holiday home on lonely heathland, close to the mouth of the River Bourne.

However, many of the county's hamlets and smaller villages were heavily dependent upon visits from retailers operating mobile shops.

The earlier houses built at Port Sunlight were a mixture of styles. The village had a pub, the Bridge Inn, which was designed to look like an old coaching inn, but opened as a temperance hotel.

Long Meg and her Daughters, a Bronze Age monument near Little Salkeld, is the largest stone circle in the Lake District, and one of the biggest in Britain.

However, nothing remains of its great monastic church. Along Thames Street, east of the town's medieval river bridge, abbey buildings remain.

All survives, including the terrace of boathouses and the central building, now reduced to two storeys by the removal of the weatherboarded upper storey; it is now the Richmond Canoe Club.

South-east of Abingdon, on the A415 and a mile west of the Culham Science Centre, the former Culham College is a large and austere Victorian Gothic building based on an Oxford collegiate layout with a

Marlow, and Henley further up river, were important inland ports handling mainly the corn, malt and timber of the Chiltern Hills behind them.

The Embankment, with its dolphin lampposts dated 1870, is by Bazalgette; in fact it hides the great sewers he built to collect London's effluent and take it further east to rid the city of its appalling

Though St Mary's contains a Norman chancel arch, much of the building dates from John Dobson's restoration of 1828-29.

The fine old farmhouse sits on a brick base and is hung with tiles and swathed in creeper.

During the Second World War it was used as an officer training unit, but when peace came it was allowed to stand empty and neglected for about six years, leaving much of the building a ruin.

St Giles' Church is over 800 years old and accepted as one of the most attractive in England.

This view of the High Street shows many buildings that have either since disap- peared or have been radi- cally reworked.

Before becoming a private nursing home, this building was a convalescent home for members of working men's clubs that were affiliated to the Club Union.

Banking premises have started to squeeze out independent retailers, while the Woolworth store heralds the era of bargain shopping.

Although pig iron was being produced in the area in the late 18th century, it was the setting up of the Tredegar Iron Works in 1800 that gave the town prosperity, growth and its name.

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.

The 'Georgian' Borough Offices of 1937 dominate this view from Mustow Street. The buildings to the left include timber-framed structures, at least four of which have jettied first floors.

These barracks in Fulford Road were built in 1795 as part of William Pitt's defence programme. They covered 19 acres, including seven for a nursery garden.