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North-east of the village and north of the A415 Abingdon Road is a large complex of austere Gothic- style buildings. This is now the European School, and not much softened with age.

The Blue Pool at Furzebrook, the best known of Purbeck's former heathland claypits was dug by Watts, Hatherley and Burns of Newton Abbot, in 1846.

Theories abound on the origin of the name, including a derivation from the knickerbockers worn by the navvies who built the railway.

This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).

With the last significant addition to the Esplanade being the Italian Gardens of the 1920s, only the cars (far right) betray this photograph's modernity.

Founded in 1136, on the site of St Mungo's Church of AD543, the Cathedral has gone through many times of peace and of strife.

Built high on a sandstone crag commanding Tarporley Gap, Beeston was one of a series of fortresses built by Rannulf de Blundeville, sixth Earl of Chester and Lincoln; the others were Chartley in Staffordshire

Holkham Hall was built in the 18th century by Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester to a design by Palladio.

Dinas Mawddwy is also infamous for the murder of one Lewis Owen, Baron of the Exchequer and Vice Chamberlain of North Wales.

The ornate drinking fountain with its road signs to Ambleside, Kendal, Bowness and the lake has been removed since 1955 - presumably it was a hazard on this now busy junction.

We have taken a 90-degree turn from F106013, and we face the opposite view of the corner of Chapel Lane and Three Tuns Lane.

The estate was held in the 12th century by Sir Robert Croc of Neilston, and it is from him that the castle derives its name.

This charming timber framed cottage (with a relatively modern extension) is a typical product of the skill of local carpenters and builders.

In the north-east corner of Dartmoor, in open country, is one of the finest stone rings, Scorhill. It once consisted of 36 stones erected without any shaping.

This view from the church tower was taken looking towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.

Before the golden age of granite, brick was often used for gables, even in a building right in the middle of the city. This is a very early form of flats, possibly built about 1775.

A depressing series of small-scale shops line the main road, which is soon to sweep in more peaceful mode under Bardon Hill.

Burton Street refers to the former leper hospital of St Mary and St Lazarus established about 1150 by Robert de Mowbray, to the south of the town; it can only be seen now as a series of earthworks to the

Victorian enthusiasm for railways soon ensured that all the major tourist centres of the Isle of Wight could be reached by the Permanent Way.

The pretty village of Calbourne lies among the downlands of the Isle of Wight. Its lovely Early English church boasts many fine monuments and is among the oldest on the island.

This former ancient tide mill, sited to the south of Dell Quay and at the head of the Bosham Channel, today stands alongside the Bosham Yacht Club quay, and is the haunt of many yachtsmen who enjoy the

The porch of the Three Crowns was the scene in 1643 of the shooting during a skirmish with Parliamentarian forces of the Royalist poet Sidney Godolphin, described by a contemporary as 'perfect

A bridge crossed the head of the Kingsbridge estuary as early as 962, though the surviving bridges in the area are medieval in origin.

This view of Northbrook Street shows the façade of Newbury's famous department store, Camp Hopson, established in 1921.