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The church, which dates from 1840, lies to the south of the castle motte, and close to the busy A50 bypass.

The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.

Chichester's Market Cross is sited at the intersection of its four main roads that date from the Roman period.

The Georgian practice of the leisured classes of promenading along the water's edge for therapeutic reasons continued to be popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and imposing parades were constructed

With its white weather-boarded houses and leafy glades, this village was once home to Viscount Rothermere.

What wonderful examples of 1950s fashion are being sported by the middle-aged couple, right.

Here lived some of the workers in the salt mines, including Joe Danson, Jack Fairhurst, and Bill Davis.

The rural nature of Thornton Cleveleys away from the coast persisted. On the right is one of the old farmsteads.

The King's Arms (left) is a fine example of a coaching inn and former posting house. Stables to the rear were reached through the archway leading from the town square.

Fritton Lake, like the Broads, originated as a series of peat pits in the medieval period. It was later used as a duck decoy. The ducks were drawn into the decoy by the decoy man's dog.

The post office, run by Robert Farrant, is on the left next to Strickland Cottage (is there a link with the author Agnes Strickland of Reydon?).

At the road junction is the Black Lion, rebuilt in 1839, and a grocer's known as Top Shop. The Tudor houses have been subdivided to provide houses for the poorer members of the village.

The mellow gritstone walls of the Peacock Hotel, on the A6 about four miles north of Matlock, are a landmark to visitors coming into the Peak District from the south.

Cars and buses are no longer allowed to park among the weird and wonderful gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, as they were when this photograph was taken.

In 1819 Charles Stewart (later the third Marquis of Londonderry) married Frances Anne Vane-Tempest, heiress to an extensive property and coalowning empire.

As we look at this mundane street as it drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning

The church is now flanked by different buildings: Rubie's on the left made way in 1928 for the rather good stone-clad neo-Georgian Post Office with its circular porch.

Emmanuel College was originally the site of a Dominican friary. After the dissolution came a short period of disuse before Sir Walter Mildmay restored parts of the friary for use as a college.

The 1st Eastern General Hospital was set up in Nevile's Court in Trinity College at the beginning of World War 1, with beds placed around the cloisters.

There is still a petrol station on this site at Brockworth roundabout, though the wartime Nissen hut we see here is long gone.

This road junction is just to the south of the centre of Wellington, and sits astride the London to Holyhead road that was built by Thomas Telford in the early 1800s.

The village children crossed these fields each day to go to the Elementary School, which was built in 1878.

By the middle 1930s the Borough Council had outgrown the offices at the Town Hall, and departments were housed in various buildings around the town.

The clear, shallow and gently-flowing waters of the River Allen, fed by the natural chalk reservoirs of Cranborne Chase, make it an ideal habitat for rushes, and commercial rush-cutting flourished here