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The poet Dylan Thomas lived here for the last four years of his life, and it is now a heritage centre devoted to him.

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

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

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 nostalgic and peaceful late-summer view shows corn stooks above the little town by the lake whose Welsh name, Llyn Tegid, means 'beautiful lake'.

It is a day preparatory school with about 175 pupils for girls aged 3 to 11 and boys aged 3 to 8. It is in delightfully wooded grounds of four acres.

This pub is named after the Woodwose, or wild man of the woods. He is usually shown as he is on the sign here - bearded, hairy and carrying a club.

The main street and good shopping centre is made more pleasant by the Victorian glass arcade, useful in wet weather.

The fields and woods of the Mount Edgcumbe estate reach down to the water.

Peaslake is a small village west of Holmbury St Mary, separated from it by a ridge of wooded hills.

This is a typical Nottinghamshire brick tower mill, tall and black-tarred. The photograph shows the mill in full working order.

Within its 7,000 acres are the lands of seven parishes, and a profusion of deep woods, sandy heathland and broad grassy rides, which are the haunt of deer.

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.

Here we see both Norman and Perpendicular features, but the organ is early 19th-century Gothic; a brass plate was set in 1789.

The crossing, however, is an ancient one, and at one time consisted of two hollowed-out logs pulled across by ropes.

One of the greatest glories of Tideswell's parish church is its wonderfully light and airy chancel. This lightness is the result of the large, plain glass windows on either wall.

The picture shows a well-stocked corner shop dealing in general and fancy drapery, and acting also as a Postal Telegraph office. Window displays include net curtaining, boots and shoes and hats.

The village was named after the bridges crossing the River Mole.The picture shows a well-stocked corner shop dealing in general and fancy drapery, and acting also as a Postal Telegraph office.

Here we see a rustic shelter and the Osmington Mills Hotel (left), with holiday chalets facing seawards.

A picturesque scene, showing the Grand Pier and Knightstone framed by trees in Weston Woods.

All the hustle and bustle of a Tuesday market day in Settle is captured in this photograph, as Dales folk gather round the market cross and the stalls.

The pleasant market town of Abergele lies just inland from the chalets and caravans of the north coast between Rhyl and Colwyn Bay.