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The earlier pub on the site, made famous by the music hall star Florrie Ford, was demolished in the early 1920s, and rebuilt to a vaguely similar design.

Tantallon was a stronghold of the Douglases, a powerful family who were wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway, and by the end of the 15th century masters of much of Lothian, Stirlingshire and

The Rectory in South Street, on the south side of St Mary's Parish Church, was the home of the Rural Dean, Rev Henry Richard William Farrer, who was an honorary canon of Salisbury Cathedral.

William Hancocks of Blakeshall Hall and his wife laid the foundation stone of Cookley church on 20 February 1849.

There has been a church at Altham since Norman times, and there may even have been a church there earlier.

A church at Ellington is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086. The chancel arch of the present church dates from the 13th century, and the tower was added in around 1390.

The ancient steps known as Granny's Teeth protrude from the inner side of the only surviving section of rough locally-sourced medieval walling at the Cobb.

This is a historic lost view of Lyme's eastern cliffs before they were entombed and extended in 1984, by sea defence works which incorporated and hid sewage disposal facilities.

Before the main A23 road was built, Cuckfield was busy with horse-drawn coaches on their way between London and Brighton. Visually, this scene is virtually unchanged today.

The Norman plan for settlements made Boroughbridge the 44th of the 400 new towns. The Romans had been here from AD 72, when they settled nearby at Aldborough about a mile away.

Simon de Montfort's army lay here the night before the Battle of Lewes in 1264. The area was made notorious by the 'Piltdown Man' fake archaeological discov- eries in the 1910s.

There are connections with the Sussex iron industry, for an ironmaster once lived here.The 17th-century house Birch Grove was the home of Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister.

The parish of Overton lies five miles south-west of Lancaster on the road to Sunderland Point.

Back on the main road, this is the real centre of the modern village; there is a good range of shops and pubs, and the school, Herstmonceux Church of England Primary School, lies behind the fence on

South-west of Oxted, and on the course of a Roman Road across the Weald, the route turns left at Blindley Heath, a hamlet on former heathland in the south of Godstone parish.

We are looking north towards Kemple End.The sizeable railway sidings that we can see here denote how important Clitheroe was as a distribution centre for this part of the Ribble Valley.After the sheep

The story of how the town got its name is an unusual one.When the railway arrived, a station was built here at Marsden.There was another Marsden just a few miles up the line in Yorkshire, so a railway

This is probably one of the most photographed views in Huntingdonshire. The thatched clock tower at Houghton was erected in 1902 as a memorial to Potto Brown`s son, George.

We are looking north from the roundabout, and the Catholic church is just visible in the distance at the end of James Street.

The view looks at St Mary's from the north, along a varied terrace of possibly late 18th- and 19th- century houses which are not enhanced by the long brick boundary wall.

The Village 1903 Just off the road between Lyminge and Hythe, this jettied timber-frame cottage stands at the approach to the 13th- century church.

Holme is a hamlet on the east bank of the Trent slightly north of Winthorpe. The church was rebuilt in 1485 by John Barton of Calais.

Thomas's hardware and ironmonger's shop (left) is at a good corner site, with a large display of wares, while opposite, E R Jones is a 'home and foreign outfitter'.

This long straggling village, in the centre of the old tin mining district, sits on a steep hill running down to the Tamar. We are at the bottom of Fore Street looking towards Newbridge Hill.