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Five miles east of Wells in the eastern Mendips, Shepton Mallet was a prosperous wool manufacturing town, which declined when northern England's Industrial Revolution got under way.

South of the A39, we climb from lush pastures towards Exmoor and the well-wooded Holnicote Estate and Dunkery Hill, much of which are owned by the National Trust.

The Cloth Mills 1907 A mile west of Wellington, Westford was a mill village with large cloth mills along the River Tone.

James Graham, fifth Marquess of Montrose was one the greatest tacticians of the Civil War. Fighting for Charles I, Montrose won victory after victory, often against overwhelming odds.

On the right are the Saracen's Head and the Clinton Arms Hotel, which once boasted stabling facili- ties for no less than ninety horses.

Raised above the road, behind a rather forbidding local stone boundary wall, the rather stumpy three-stage crenellated west tower is all that remains of the medieval church.

Bandstands are, by their very nature, fascinating pieces of municipal equipment.

Eventually the Earl of Dudley gave the priory ruins to the people of Dudley, and the council laid out the grounds to form a public park, where people can still sit in contemplation, much as their

The Macclesfield Canal passes through the outskirts of Congleton, complete with an elegant iron aqueduct where it crosses Canal Street, and several attractive bridges.

This view of the 1935 Silver Jubilee seat is taken from outside the King's Head on the A12, looking down the High Street.

The village had been owned by the fathers of the Cathedral of Westminster, but it was passed to the descendants of the Norman de Mandeville family in 1120.

The fine 14th-century church of St Mary, built of local sandstone, has a Perpendicular tower with dumpy crocketed pinnacles and full-length aisles of the same width as the nave and chancel.

The four-storey gabled house on the right with the flight of steps is Blagroves House. This is now the oldest surviving house in the town.

Built-in bathrooms for most people were still something of a novelty.

Swanage pier is really a landing stage of immense proportions. It was originally some 1400 ft in length, designed to facilitate the export of Purbeck stone.

All long piers such as those at Southport, Ramsey in the Isle of Man, and Southend, were equipped with tramways, though the original idea behind them was for the conveyance of passengers, baggage

The Cottage, on the corner, faces onto River Green and looks towards the right of the photograph and Pig's Nose, originally a c1500 farm shed but now a residence.

The Buttercross is to be found in the centre of the village market place. The railings have gone, as have the brick wall and the trees behind it.

As we look from Tower Bridge, the dominance of William the Conqueror's White Tower keep, dating from the late 11th century and still the focus of the castle, is now somewhat reduced by office blocks, including

One of the attractions at Embleton is its golf course, once only 9 holes but now the full 18.

This pleasant, tucked-away village, three miles from Cranbrook, is open and scattered in structure, like others in this part of Kent. It was once noted for cloth manufacture.

It was the home of the Palmer family in the time of Henry VIII. Ecclesden Manor is a long, low Tudor-style house built in 1634.

It was during the headmastership of Dr William Temple from 1857-1869 that many of the school's buildings were constructed.

This photograph shows the old lighthouse of 1831 in the background. The fishermen are checking their lobster pots, the 'inkwell' shape of which has not changed to this day.