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Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.

If coal was burned in these houses, it had to be imported from the mainland.

During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burning hayricks and destroying machinery.

Firstly, the Shaa family, who owned land here, produced two Mayors of London. Secondly, a local farmer called Thomas Higbed was burned at the stake in 1555, on a charge of heresy.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

This 'superb temple of legislation' in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

This ‘superb temple of legislation’ in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

What remains of the Castle buildings is now overshadowed by a glass, steel and concrete edifice to its rear.

When lead was discovered in Weardale, the mining rights were granted to the bishops of Durham; by the 13th century, mining, smelting and charcoal burning and so on were on a large scale for the period.

The Mill stood to the south of Rochford on the tidal estuary of the River Roach. Many mills existed along the tidal arms of the sea fingering into Essex which provided easy transport by water.

The river Burn runs through the villages of South and North Creake too. The road at the centre of the picture leads to the ruins of Creake Abbey, which lies in a beautiful setting beside the stream.

Further down the Thames are the Houses of Parliament - or rather, the Palace of Westminster. This replaced the old palace, which burned down in 1834.

The village of Braemar is situated on the banks of Cluny Burn.

Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.

The lovely timber porch was left relatively untouched, however; and a grave-slab from an earlier church has recently been discovered beneath the pews. The rectory burned down in the 1950s.

Firstly, the Shaa family, who owned land here, produced two Mayors of London. Secondly, a local farmer called Thomas Higbed was burned at the stake in 1555, on a charge of heresy.

These limestone crags, at the western end of Stoney Middleton, are the haunt of modern rock climbers, and the 200 routes up them have gained evocative names such as Aurora, Alcasan and Armageddon

Mells Manor, largely Elizabethan, was built on the site of a medieval monastic manor.

Said to be a devotee of the black arts, he was abducted by his God-fearing tenants, rolled in a sheet of lead and taken to Ninestane Rig, a stone circle beyond Whitterhope Burn.

Charcoal burning was one of the New Forest's earliest industries, though it is a rarer occurrence today. The charcoal produced had a multitude of uses, particularly in the smelting of iron.

Felsted had two watermills at the time of the Domesday survey, and it is likely that Felsted Mill and Hartford End Mill are on the same two sites.

St George's is considered to be one of Sir Gilbert Scott's finest designs, and was built in 1854-58 as a replacement for the original parish church which had been destroyed by fire.

Gazing up the street past Wilks Teenage Fashions (left) with the Elkes Cafe above, we can see Barclays Bank. This was built in 1921 on the site of Huggins & Chambers, an ironmonger's.

This is the lower reach of the old Liskeard and Looe Canal; it was still used occasionally at this date to carry sea sand and limestone for burning in the kilns at Sandplace.