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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

The picturesque harbour gives good shelter, once vessels have negotiated a difficult entrance between high cliffs.

Charmouth village stretches up the long hillside on the western side of the river Char.

Climbing westwards, the Taunton to Barnstaple road crosses the well-treed and young River Tone Valley at Waterrow.

These caves, in the south face of Chudleigh Rock, were used in prehistoric times.

The River Dee rises at Bala, and makes an 80-mile dash for the sea, sweeping through a dangerous switchback of rapids and rocks to Llangollen.

The seaward end of Broad Street was once the hub of Lyme Regis with its old Custom House, until a devastating fire in 1844.

Wasdale and Wastwater can be said to have seen the birth of the sport of rock climbing, and climbers from all over Britain have stayed at the local hostelries such as the Victoria Hotel.

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.

On 18 July 1844 the London and North Western Railway Company began work to extend the railway from Lancaster to Carlisle.

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

Dartford was home to two of the world's most famous rock stars, Sir Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and this is how they would remember the town of their youth.

Sir William Keith, Marischal of Scotland, built Dunnottar in the late 14th century. The site, an isolated 150ft-high rock, is ideal for a fortress.

Tenby stands on a tongue of limestone rock, ending a green promontory, which is crowned by the ruins of the old castle, and is now pleasantly laid out with walks which serve at once as pier and promenade

Marloes village and the sands that are so attractive to holidaymakers were well served by this charming little building. It served as the post office and general stores until around 1965.

This view of Great Gable is unusual, as it is taken from the north. The usual view of the shapeliest mountains in the Lake District is from the head of Wasdale, where it dominates the scene.

These cottages stand in Watery Lane, between Church Road and the Cross and the track to Harry Warren House on the clifftop - the track becomes the coastal footpath to Old Harry Rocks.

As we have already seen, Breconshire is renowned for its many waterfalls and caves in the far south west.

Long before the advent of mass tourism, the coastline here had been exploited as a source of income for local people.

These six ancient graves hewn from solid rock close to the chapel of St Patrick lie on the impressive Heysham headland.

The sunshine picks out the white walls of rock chalk of this fine Edwardian house designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with planting and landscaping by Gerturde Jekyll.

This view shows Front Beach and Railway Street, now the Strand. In the foreground is Craig-y-Mor or Rock Villa. The small building in the garden was originally a boathouse.

Through the famous Cow and Calf Rocks high up on Ilkley Moor, we can see the estate of Denton Park, once the home of the Fairfax family.

The Great Western Railway found Newquay a small and almost inaccessible Cornish fishing village, and have transformed it into quite a fashionable seaside resort.