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This view, showing the centre of Ewell village, was taken looking north towards the Horse Pond and Spring Corner, and includes several splendid examples of the motor vehicles of the period.

The town was laid out north and west of the Abbey precincts, with the Market Place at the junction of High, Magdalen, Benedict and North Load Streets.

To the right of the picture is the foliage-covered Matrons' College, built in the 1680s as a refuge for the widows of priests who were ordained in the Salisbury dioceses.

Lack of major industrial development in Tewkesbury meant that the town retained much of its 17th- and 18th-century character and did not experience much of an explosion in its population.

The Palace, designed by the illustrious London architects Ernest George & Peto and built in 1882 at the then enormous cost of £20,000, was funded by Viscountess Ossington, sister of the 5th Duke of

Holyhead is best known as the ferry port for Ireland, and stands on Holy Island, linked by a causeway to the Isle of Anglesey.

When Basil Spence designed the new cathedral, he incorporated the ruins of St Michael’s into the scheme of things: the old church in effect became the new cathedral’s vestibule.

Magdalene Almshouses (left), were rebuilt in 1877 on the site of a lazar-house or leper hospital, apparently founded by a member of the de Leyes or Legh family, in the early 13th century.

We have two items of interest in this picture: the archway, the Gannock Gate, and the Red Mount Chapel behind the trees on the left.

To the south-east of mediaeval Finchley, the High Road drops down from the North Circular Road between an almost standard series of parade shops built around the turn of the century, and past the Rex Cinema

The placename is derived from Haecc or gate. The village is on the north-west edge of Pinner Park, itself a 14th-century deer park owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Whereas Glasgow Green had been a part of the common grazing land of the burgh since the earliest times, the greening of Glasgow really began in 1852 when the city acquired the estates of Woodlands

Located on the east side of Magdalen Bridge, The Plain signifies the boundary of the old city. Just out of sight, the River Cherwell flows under the easterly part of the High Street.

The laying out of Windsor Gardens in 1880 was an early manifestation of the 'new' Penarth, an integral part of the work to gentrify the seafront area.

Old Swinford is a suburb of Stourbridge today, which represents a reversal of fortune: the Domesday Book (1086) recorded Stourbridge as part of the manor of 'Suineford'.

This is an excellent example of the seemingly inexorable tide of uniform London County Council housing which swept northwards to engulf this former hamlet of Elstree after the Second World War.

North Stoneham Church c1960 North Stoneham Church was rebuilt at the end of the 16th century in the Gothic style.

This sprawling riverside village lies between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

Nestling under the steep southern slope of the Sussex Downs, Funtington is typical of the inland villages of the coastal plain.

The survival of the green helps Tettenhall retain just a hint of its village character, though it is very much part of Wolverhampton now.

Carrog, or Llansantffraid Glyndyfrdwy, is in the heart of the lands of Owain Glyndwr, the marcher lord.

The church of St Mary has some parts that are medieval, but most of what can be seen today dates from its rebuilding between 1859 and 1860 under the supervision of Henry Woodyer.

The book of 'Hampshire Treasures' states that the 'Bentley Book' on the left was 'designed by Lord Baden-Powell for the Daily Mail competition for village signs in 1923.

We are looking back up Crown Hill, with the sign of the Crown on the left.