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The lantern tower of St Botolph's dominates the town and the surrounding countryside. The river flows down into the Wash.

The town, built in oolitic limestone, is a most attractive one: its streets curve up and down hill picturesquely.

Its surroundings are pleasant without being spectacular: 90% of Staffordshire is rural, and nowhere in the town, not even in the very centre, is one ever far from the countryside.

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

The waters of Stock Ghyll rise just below the summit of the Kirkstone Pass, north of the town, and plunge through this wooded gorge before joining the River Rothay and eventually entering Windermere.

For so long Eastleigh has been synonymous with marshalling yards and the grime of the railway age.

The shopping parade was built between 1960 and 1966 by Wallis, Finlay, Smith & Ball on the site of a house of some historic interest called Fountainville.

Jane Austen visited the town and adored the setting, capturing her enthusiasm in her novel. 'The young people were all wild to see Lyme', she wrote as her characters approached the town.

The 180ft-high spire dominates the town, and looks down onto the heart of the shopping area.

Despite being hemmed in by the surrounding hills, by the turn of the century Carmarthen was already a sizeable and bustling town.

One hundred years before this, there were no large shops in the town, and the age of the department store was still a few years away.

There was a time when Barnard Castle was one of a number of prosperous towns in the Palatinate; the others were Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton, Sedgefield, Staindrop and Wolsingham.

Named after the founder of the steel works, this imposing brick building in Rockingham Road was constructed in 1937 to cater for the large number of schoolchildren coming into the town and to ease

The village expanded with the boot and shoe works in the later 19th century, but the original stone village survives.

Opened in 1934 on the site of the former Middleton Hall corn mill, these gardens became another focal point for the town and a much-loved asset.

King George is commemorated by a statue in the town and a carved chalk figure on the hills nearby.

The Normans established a town, and provided the church which was dedicated to St Nicholas.

Sandy was originally a modest Roman settlement on the Roman road between St Albans and Godmanchester; in the 18th century the town became important for its coaching inns servicing the Great North Road.

Birkenhead is a surprisingly large and sprawling town, and has taken in its outlying villages to become suburbs.

The town centre is dominated by its very large triangular market place, which in its turn is visually overwhelmed by the mighty church steeple, completed in 1460 and universally known as the Boston Stump

In the distance the modern cooling towers of Ferrybridge Power Station and in the middle distance the Aire and Calder Navigation parallel with the River Aire.

St Wilfrid's Church dates back to 1865, and contains a stained glass window dedicated to two brothers. Two other brothers who died within two months of one another are also commemorated.

The waters of Stock Ghyll rise just below the summit of the Kirkstone Pass, north of the town, and plunge through this wooded gorge before joining the River Rothay and eventually entering

The Cross is the name given to this road junction in the centre of the town, and does not refer to the drinking fountain pictured here.