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The charming central Green is overlooked by houses and shops, most of which were built in the late 18th and 19th centuries when local merchants invested wealth made in the maritime

We are looking south- eastwards from West Hill across to the Victorian villas on the sylvan summit of East Hill, glimpsing the tower of the parish church (left).

Bridge Street is one of the main streets of the city of Chester, and still follows the original street plan laid down by the Romans.

The market town of Stourport lies in the borough of Bewdley at the junction of the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal, the River Stour and the River Severn, which led to flourishing trade with other parts

Bodelwyddan is rightly famous for 'the marble church' that stands proudly in the surrounding countryside near Rhuddlan, its spire reaching up 202 feet.

Cockfighting was a very popular pastime in rural Wales until its prohibition in 1849.

The town`s impressive Chinese Bridge was built in 1827 - the name reflects the design of the bridge. It links Post Street to the riverside walk on the west side of the Ouse.

This old manorial village 5 miles north of Sheffield was part of the industrial revolution: it established small craft workshops making nails and parts for the burgeoning factories in Sheffield

Our brief tour of Minehead starts up in Higher Town, the old town. Here the narrow Church Steps wind from Vicarage Road up steps to the church at the town's summit.

At the bottom end of Fore Street, on the right, is another Elizabethan building: the old Grammar School of 1583, with its tall porch bay, now part of Chard School.

Glen Middle Mill 1908 If Sally Spencer, the lady looking at the photographer, came back today, she would see that almost all in this view (except the rear block of Pavey's Temperance Hotel) has

On the other side of the church lie the marshes of the Blyth estuary, which is why this magnificent church is known as the Queen of the Marshes.

Here we can see a closer view of the railway line, which runs parallel to the river virtually all the way to Carmarthen.

Located at the corner of Stockerston Road and South Backway, West Bank was built in 1866 by Howard Candler, 'a small, energetic mathematician', who always refused to have more than six boys boarding.

This part of Sunderland developed into the commercial and civic heart of the town following the opening of Fawcett Street Station by the North Eastern Railway.

At this point the River Medway ceases to be tidal; the electrical sluice gates here, thirty feet wide and fifteen feet deep, are an essential part of the flood control scheme of the Medway Valley.

The village is now a faceless sort of place, apart from one or two buildings; these include a superb but well-disguised hall house of around 1500 in Church Road.

Said to derive its name from a local family, the area basically occupies a stretch of Edgware Road about a mile south of Edgware.

A fortified site since the 8th century, the Norman castle at Bamburgh was besieged in 1095 by William II.

On the right the old farmyard and barns recently became Kingsmill Barns and Cottages. This scene reflects a time before the First World War, now marked by the Great War Memorial at the road junction.

The lower parts of the chapel were built in 1330 as a charnel house, but it became a chantry chapel, endowed by John Holman, in 1449.

The Taw at high tide. The masts of sailing ships are visible beyond the bridge, and a fine collection of rowing boats can be seen around the boathouse.

The steel industry used the docks to import iron and other materials that are part of the steel-making process.

Sedbergh is a pleasant little market town on the southern edge of the lovely Howgill Fells. It grew rapidly in the Victorian era, being on a strategic turnpike road from Kendal to Kirkby Stephen.