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Church Cove was a pilchard fishing place, with boats hauled up the steep beach, and there was also a lifeboat station here for a while until 1899.

Barrel Rock (centre right, with the marker post) marks the end of Bude's breakwater. The first one was destroyed in a storm in 1838 and was replaced by one designed by James Walker.

The ancient town of Rye was built on a sandstone rock at the confluence of the Tillington and Rother rivers.

The village is named after five ash trees on the green.Twits Gill was once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s.

Cars and buses are no longer allowed to park among the weird and wonderful gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, as they were when this photograph was taken.

His carriage has stopped near the summit of one of the most famous of the Lake District passes. It connects Troutbeck with Patterdale.

Seaton is a mostly Victorian town hard by the mouth of the River Axe. Though never one of Devon's more fashionable resorts, it has a charm of its own and an attractive setting.

Victorians flocked to see the Lovers' Seat in the beauty spot of Fairlight Glen. Tradition alleges that a naval lieutenant called Lamb trysted here with his sweetheart Miss Boys.

During the summer months there is a good service of steamboats between this interesting watering-place and London. Shakespeare's Cliff commands a broad view of the shores of France.

This hamlet of miners' cottages at Minions was first known as Cheesewring Railway because the line of that name passed through in 1846.

Billy Banks Wood, prominent in views from Castle Walk, is ancient 'hanging' woodland clinging to limestone rock on the south bank of the River Swale just west of Richmond Castle.

The village is named after five ash trees on the green. Twits Gill was once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s.

The construction of the Esplanade c1883-84, costing in the region of £10,000, would provide a stable and stylish platform along which the town's chic new visitors could indulge in the fashion for promenading

They would arrive on an early ferry with their wicker baskets and 'set up shop' along the promenade or on the beach.

Knowle, one mile south-east of Solihull, contains several interesting old buildings, including the medieval Chester House, and the heavily restored 17th-century Red Lion.

Knowle, one mile south-east of Solihull, contains several interesting old buildings, including the medieval Chester House, and the heavily restored 17th-century Red Lion.

East Cliff 1890 Hastings had been one of the medieval Cinque Ports, and it remained a major fishing port until relatively recently.

The small church is on the north shore of the Camel estuary at Porthilly near Rock. There is evidence for a Norman church although it was much rebuilt in 1867.

Off the Lizard, fearsome rocks are a constant reminder of why a lifeboat station was established in 1859 in the very exposed Polpeor Cove right under the most southerly point in England

Brighton is the biggest and most lively and cosmopolitan of the Sussex resorts. The sea bathing and taking of salt water cures laid the foundations for the town's growth after 1750.

CASTLE HILL has a commanding view of both the landward and the seaward approaches, and it was almost certainly the location of an Iron Age Celtic promontory fort.

The one seen here was built in 1873. The fog signal blasts every half minute.

Posed on Goscar Rock on Tenby's North Beach, these women were paid for their work as models.

Owing to the frequent heavy seas, the Perch Light, which had stood on Perch Rock since 1683, was often washed away, and so in the 1820s Liverpool Corporation decided to build a more substantial lighthouse