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Ringwood's houses date from most periods of England's history and include some modern buildings - for this is both a commuter town and a favourite place for retirement.

The M5 motorway divides this village and its surrounding countryside from Cheltenham.

After Weymouth harbour was dredged and improved during Victoria's reign, larger ships joined the trade routes between the town and foreign ports.

The miniature railway at Saltburn delighted generations of young visitors to the town (and possibly older visitors!).

This, the most westerly town in England, has been raided down the centuries by Spanish ships and by pirates.

A splendid view of the town and castle.

The road stretches towards College Town and Camberley.

The road stretches towards College Town and Camberley.

Mansfield lies some 14 miles north of Nottingham and to the west of Sherwood Forest.

After Weymouth Harbour was dredged and improved in 1888, larger ships joined the trade routes between the town and foreign ports.

The church was founded in 1107 and was the cause of bitter rivalry between town and prior, culminating in each faction building its own 15th-century bell towers.

Two hundred and thirty-five years before this photograph was taken, Samuel Pepys visited the town and ate 'very good troutes, eels and crayfish' at the Bear Hotel.

The long main street in this market town and seaport is thronged with horse-drawn taffic and pedestrians.

On the right of the picture is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

In this photograph we look west from the tip of Mill Meadow Island towards the Embankment and the north bank of the river.

When it was built, the meeting house was actually right in the centre of town, but coastal erosion over hundreds of years has swept away much of the old town, and left the beach almost next door to the

Sir John was born at Dragley Beck in the town, and went on to become Second Secretary to the Admiralty; he decided Napoleon's place of exile.

Like Teignmouth and Lyme Regis, Dawlish was much-loved by fashionable society during the 19th century.

Up until just over a hundred years ago, a watercourse, or lode, ran down the centre of this street.

Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.

Newport has always been an important trading town, and at the height of its fortunes carried goods such as timber, malt, wheat and flour.

It stands above the town, and has staggering views over the Bay, so it is little wonder that the Great Western Railway turned it into a hotel.

Its construction marked the town's commitment to its role as a resort.

A bustling agricultural town and a centre of communications, Ashford was already undergoing a process of extensive and rapid change by the 1950s.