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The red brick building in the centre was a day school and lecture hall attached to the 18th-century Congregational church (the white pediment behind it).

The village is certainly one of Devon's prettiest, not least for its setting, strung in a series of hamlets around the junction of several pastoral and wooded combes.

It is an octagonal structure made of wood with an unusual three-tiered dome. The town took the cross over and installed a chimney clock in 1899.

This quiet little corner is on the north side of Torquay and reached by way of a romantic wooded ravine.

A timeless scene in one of the many creeks of the long estuary that runs between Salcombe and Kingsbridge.

The lady in her long black dress and the gentleman wait for the ferryman to take them across to the western side of the lake, where the wooded Claife Heights stretch away to the right.

This quiet little corner is on the north side of Torquay and reached by way of a romantic wooded ravine.

Gweek was at one time a port of some significance at the head of the tidal Helford River, which lies between the buildings and the wooded hillside.

Woods Corner is a hamlet in the parish of Dallington, about four miles north-east of Herstmonceux.

In the 19th century, this area south of Dorking was a wild and dangerous part of Surrey, where highwaymen pursued their villainous trade and smugglers transported their contraband goods at night along

Yarmouth Pier opened in 1876, and was built out of wood, a common material for the less elaborate piers.

The Whitewell Hotel in the Hodder Valley has long been famed for its hospitality and proximity to good fishing. Another view of brooding Pendle Hill can be had from Whitewell.

This famous shopping street started in the 1760s as a row of elegant houses designed by the architect John Wood.

This once thickly-wooded dell on both sides of the River Spodden had been thinned out somewhat by the 1890s.

The wooded ravine of Nicky Nook draws botanists and sketchers.

The waters of Stock Ghyll rise just below the summit of the Kirkstone Pass, north of the town, and plunge through this wooded gorge before joining the River Rothay and eventually entering Windermere.

The superb wood carving dates from 1380, and on the misericords it depicts vivid scenes of medieval life and legend.

The entrance block of the theatre was formed from Beau Nash's first house in Bath, a pre-Wood era building of 1720 with heavy moulded window surrounds and cornices.

This is the administrative centre of the city, with the late 19th-century County Hall, the Court House and the Town Hall.

The Plantation and Madeira Walk below The Beacon and Louisa Terrace are a delightful stretch of green wooded shelter on hot days.

Just downstream of Carr Wood waterfall is this smaller weir, whose race carried water via a flagstone channel under fields to the left to the Ashworth Estate corn mill.

Walk along Brock Street, and you reach the quite extraordinary Royal Crescent of John Wood the Younger.

Such were the number of visitors navigating the overgrown and makeshift route from the town centre to the beach that the Windsor estate prioritised the construction of a more permanent path.

Initially the home of the fishing fleet, the Albert Dock soon became the dock for the importation of wood pulp, paper, fruit and provisions and for the export of heavy vehicles, cars and industrial and