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This is taken from the north end of the Green, looking south towards Hall Street, showing the wide expanse of the Green, where fairs are still held.

Now merged with Dorking, North Holmwood is one of three small villages along the west side of the large and mostly wooded Holmwood Common - the other two villages are Mid Holmwood and South

On the 14th-century pillared cross is one of the earliest surviving representations of the Three Legs of Man. The other is on the Manx Sword of State which Olaf Godreson is said to have owned c1230.

The 15th-century tower of the church stands on Norman foundations, and houses the tomb of the last abbot of St Augustine's abbey at Canterbury who, at the time of the Dissolution, was given the manor

This broad open space at the heart of the city is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.

An attractive garden borders the river in front of the Swan Hotel. Since 1965 an extension to the hotel has replaced the low building beside the thatched house.

This photograph, taken from the tower of the Town Hall, looks down past the formal square to the buildings of Bishop Street, which include the reference library by Edward Burgess of 1904 and the former

In the early decades of the 19th century the district of Saddleworth covered 35 square miles and included over 70 hamlets and villages.

Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents. Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire.

This is an excellent example of an East Anglian round tower.

The plotland development of this part of Basildon stemmed from the agricultural depression of the 1870s. Initially focused on Laindon station, it soon engulfed parts of Langdon Hills and Dunton.

The Tavistock road leads away from Plymouth to the fringes of Dartmoor, and has always been a busy highway.

The Tavistock road leads away from Plymouth to the fringes of Dartmoor, and has always been a busy highway.

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

On the night of 14 November 1940, German bombs destroyed the ancient cathedral church of St Michael.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

The clock was a bequest to the town by William Thomas Sim, a retired local grocer, civic leader and philanthropist, who died in 1917 at the age of seventy-nine.

Time stands still in this peaceful view of the village; but on 12 March 1470, the Battle of Loscote Field, one of many during the Wars of the Roses, was fought in the parish.

Gunnerside lies in the heart of Swaledale. The village was once famous for its lead mines, and the remains of many of them still survive in the gills of the surrounding fells.

The first official record of a petition for a navigation light appears in the Parliamentary Papers of the Lords of the Privy Council for Trade, written during the reign of William III and Queen

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

Fortrose stands on the Black Isle overlooking the inner Moray Firth. The ruined cathedral dates from the reign of David I.

The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.

The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.