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Katherine's Cross in Ampthill Park gained a subsequent measure of recognition when it proved to be the burial site of the 'Golden Hare' - the subject of a national treasure hunt based on Kit Williams'

Horses and carts no longer park outside the Wheatsheaf public house, however; but the spire of the parish church can still be seen in the background at the end of Burlington Street, which like the High

It remains the finest medieval landmark in the Peak, and was formerly the symbol of the Peak District National Park.

Dovedale is probably the best known of the Derbyshire Dales; indeed, the parked wagons offering donkey rides, and the signs to the Izaak Walton Hotel, show that tourism was already well-established when

This lovely pastoral scene on the Nonsuch Park estate demonstrates that although the internal combustion engine was making rapid progress in the years following the First World War, most farming communities

South Park was renowned for its trees, a number of which were planted to mark special occasions: the sequoias, for instance, were planted in 1863 to commemorate the wedding of Prince Edward and Princess

The wall on the left fronts Saffrons Park, now a sports club, with its entrance gates dated 1914. Note the characteristic brick pavements of the fashionable 'Belgravia of Eastbourne'.

In the section of the park beyond Marlborough Road, Edward Davis erected this obelisk to the then Princess Victoria in early 1837 for Bath to commemorate the 'attainment of her majority'.

The Austin van facing the camera on the left is parked outside the old Red & White coach station, and no doubt local people of ripening years will recall family holidays that began and ended at this

Cars are neatly parked in driveways; visitors' vehicles are kept firmly on the other side of the municipal green and flower beds; and their owners are enjoying a quiet kick-about to break

Woodlands Park is a good example of that most English of urban establishments - a local rec.

Despite the forbidding notice on the gate, much of the parkland is now incorporated within a delightful country park.

Since 1945, Walton Gardens have been a popular public park.

The motor coach parked by the telephone box, is further evidence of the latter-day growth of tourism.

Over on the Westside you can see Cripplegate Park, created in 1930 on the site of the long-established Wilesmith's timber yard.

The scene of Falstaff's miseries in Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', Datchet stands on the Thames bank, opposite Home Park.

This broad space was turned into a public park in 1840. For centuries before it had been a common, where villagers had grazed their cattle.

This broad space was turned into a public park in 1840. For centuries before it had been a common, where villagers had grazed their cattle.

Just behind the parked car on the left is the carved entrance to the post office, while on the right a Singer's sign advertises the advantages of sewing on an electrically powered machine.

Further along the street, and almost a decade later, an early motor car is parked outside the entrance of the Royal Lion Hotel, which was rebuilt in blue lias ashlar after a devastating fire

This public park, with its neatly-trimmed shrubs and bushes, occupies the former site of the vineyard of the Benedictine monastery founded in 1082 by Bishop Gundulf.

An inland view from Britwell Drive (foreground), looking northwards over the car park and a dozen coaches at the end of the B3070 in Lulworth Cove hamlet.

This imposing statue of the Duke of Wellington seated on his horse, Copenhagen, has been situated on Round Hill since 1885, when it was brought from Hyde Park Corner in London where it had dwarfed the

The old road still marks the boundary of Dartmoor National Park.