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The c hurch of St Peter de Merton is of great interest, for it contains Anglo-Saxon work. The present chancel was the nave of the first church, while the tower was added after the Norman Conquest.

This village stands on the south-west edge of the Isle of Ely. In the 17th century the fens around Sutton were drained by farmers with the help of wind pumps.

East of Crowborough the tour reaches Wadhurst, once a village of importance in the Wealden iron industry and now a quiet and typical High Weald village.

Within 15 years of being built the bridge needed to be widened so that today it carries four lanes of traffic.

Henry III ordered the Keeper of Windsor Forest to deliver to Andrew, Sergeant of Caversham, one good oak to make a boat for ferrying poor people over the water of Caversham.

Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.

The dominating centrepiece of the early Norman settlement, the castle with its three moats was built by Robert, Count of Mortain, the half-brother of William the Conqueror.

The Vale of Glamorgan used to grow a great deal of corn, ensuring ample straw for thatching, and the pretty village of Merthyr Mawr is entirely made up of whitewashed, thatched houses.

To the north-east of Masham and three miles south of Bedale, Snape Castle was once the home of Katherine Parr, sixth and last wife of Henry VIII.

The earliest mention of the provision of education in Leeds dates from 1552 when William Sheafield, chantry priest of St Catherine, left property to support the upkeep of a schoolmaster.

Founded in 1147, Roche Abbey was a colony of Newminster in Northumberland, itself a daugh- ter of the great Cistercian abbey of Fountains.The abbey took its name from a cross-like rock that

Writing in 1822, Edward Baines said of the area that 'on the whole, Saddleworth is an interesting, though an uninviting part of the country, and the Mountaineers of this region, like those of Switzerland

Founded in 1147, Roche Abbey was a colony of Newminster in Northumberland, itself a daughter of the great Cistercian abbey of Fountains.

Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.

In early days the royal manor of Lyndhurst was often granted to the queens of England. Henry III gave it to Eleanor of Castile, the wife of Edward I.

In the chancel are the tombs of some of the Fytton family, including Sir Edward (1550-1606) who became Lord President of Munster, and Mary Fytton who was a maid of honour to Elizabeth I, but was soon disgraced

Chapter Three is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

One of the first known owners of the property was a member of the Brocke family by the name of Ayre. The earliest boundary was north of the stream known now as the Pip Brook.

Hanmer takes the name of one of the great aristocratic families of the Borderlands.

Four immense bronze lions by Landseer guard the foot of the memorial.

When the Duke of Gordon held the castle for James VII during the 'Long Siege' of 1689, there would have been few, if any, buildings between the fortress and the port of Leith.

The parish of Salthouse extends over 1,559 acres of land, 15 of water and 31 of foreshore.

The railed and culverted Thornton Beck runs through the village of Thornton Dale, east of Pickering on the edge of the North York Moors.

Chideock, always pronounced without the 'e', is set in a landscape of ancient ridgeways and rolling hills.