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Built in 1587, Shipton Hall was a wedding present from Richard Lutwyche to his daughter, Elizabeth, when she married Thomas Mytton. Another Elizabeth, the Queen, stayed here soon afterwards.

This fine, solid memorial to those who died in the First World War is shown here in close-up. The Memorial was officially unveiled by Earl Jellicoe on 13 June 1926.

Here we see a close-up view of the Market Hall with its imposing front and large statues mounted over the entrance. There was a corn market in Accrington as far back as the 16th century.

Built around the massive Sprotborough Hall, village life centred on the landowners, the Copley family.

In more modern times the town was a major coaching post on the great North Road, and several fine inns survive here.

Three years in the building, the Town Hall opened on 17 April 1889, and this day was proclaimed a public holiday in the town. The Italianate style reflected the prosperity of this weaving community.

Often described as 'the most romantic and complete medieval manor house in England', Haddon Hall, the Derbyshire home of the Dukes of Rutland, is seen here on its limestone bluff overlooking the River

The two oldest buildings in Congleton are both inns, the White Lion near the Town Hall and the Lion and Swan shown here. However, Congleton is known as the Bear Town.

The Shire Hall of 1837 is on the right. The County Assizes were once held here, but today part of the building contains the town's Tourist Information Centre.

This 16th-century lodge, set in what was the walled kitchen- garden of Weald Hall, has unsubstantiated associations with (pre- Bloody) Queen Mary.

The building was once the Dolphin Inn; Bishop Hall lived here in the 1640s, hence the popular name.

First they were taken to Tenterbanks school, seen here on the right, for medical checks; then they went to the Market Hall, where refreshments were provided, before being dispersed to families around

Jumbo the water tower can be seen, but work had only just started on the town hall, so its great tower has not yet appeared. The foliage clump in the water is still here a hundred years later.

Viewed here from the Fossgate entrance, the hall is the largest timber-framed building in York; the undercroft is the oldest part.

The pretty estate village of Hovingham in the Vale of Pickering is famous for Hovingham Hall, built about 1760 by Thomas Worsley, Surveyor General to William III.

Newby Hall was built by Sir Christopher Wren for the MP of Ripon, Sir Edward Blackett, during the 1690s.

Cromwell's family farmed at Slepe Hall in St Ives, but by all accounts they were not particularly successful at it; they were even thought to have contemplated emigrating to America at one point.

Here we see the bustling Tuesday market. On the right is the Elizabethan-style Town Hall built in 1832. In the background, smothered with drying washing, are the shambles.

Here we see the bustling Tuesday market. On the right is the Elizabethan-style Town Hall built in 1832. In the background, smothered with drying washing, are the shambles.

The Town Hall was built on the site of the old chapel-of-ease. Its foundation stone was laid on 11th June 1845 and the cost of the building was £1,300.

The wonderfully over-the- top Baroque town hall is a triumph for the town, and much better than the pallid neo-classical one it replaced.

Here, just beyond the fountain, the bothy still survives, but with a tiled roof, while the Shire Hall, opened in 1911, with its balustraded hipped roof and built in mellow brick and stone, is now used

East Howe Congregational Hall on the corner displays a poster for YMCA Club events. The oak trees are an indication that there were just hedges and fields here until the 1920s.

Here we see a rural scene in a fold of the Downs - now much more wooded and obscured by trees. A stack yard is in the foreground, with round and rectangular corn ricks.