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Now owned by the National Trust for Scotland, Brodick Castle, once the seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, dates from the 14th century.

Red Hill is one of the pleasantest streets in Stourbridge, created centuries ago by cutting through the red sandstone which outcrops locally.

Bigbury-on-Sea stands on a promontory above the River Avon, which rises high on southern Dartmoor. This was a rural backwater until well into the 20th century.

Britannia House, on Upper Tything, was designed by Thomas White as a mansion for the Somers family.

The two buildings dominating this view of the east side of Foregate Street have both been converted to other purposes.

In the distance you can see the Green and beyond it the tall spire of the church of St Philip and St James, built in 1869 with sandstone from nearby Holt. The tower and spire were added later.

A young lad sits on the grass on the sheltered inward side of the cliffs.

This is the administrative centre of the city, with the late 19th-century County Hall, the Court House and the Town Hall.

It was embellished by statues of Queen Victoria and Wellington, transferred from Victoria Square.

The south bank is a series of islands linked by footbridges, and is just as popular as public parkland.

It was embellished by statues of Queen Victoria and Wellington, transferred from Victoria Square.

In the days when Bungay was a thriving port, trading wherries would come through Geldeston Lock near Beccles, and sail up the Waveney to what used to be the limit of navigation for large craft.

Here we see the Square outside the old town hall and part of Market Street. We can see the bus shelters on the left.

Here is a clutter of ramshackle warehouses, timber-yards and wharves.

'Glorious Goodwood', one of the great advertising slogans, usually lives up to its name, and the racing that takes place here, high on the South Downs and a mile north of Goodwood House, is usually blessed

The photograph shows congenial, modest, mostly early 19th-century buildings, with a series of shop fronts pre-dating the ugliness of late 20th-century aluminium framing and internally illuminated fascia

Askrigg was already prosperous when the Domesday book was compiled, and continued as the commercial and industrial centre of Upper Wensleydale until 1699, when Hawes was granted a market charter.

Granted a market charter by William III, Hawes later became a centre for textiles, quarrying and the production of Wensleydale cheese.

The seat of the Courtenays, the Earls of Devon, Powderham Castle was first built on this site in the late 14th century.

Said to be one of the finest town churches in Kent, the parish church is built of Kentish ragstone and has an impressive interior.

The Kettle Brook 1898 A short walk from The Harrow pub at Steep brings you to this delightful spot at the heart of hilly East Hampshire, sometimes described as 'Little Switzerland'.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman doctor of medicine, became first woman mayor of an English borough when she took up office in Aldeburgh in 1908.

This small fen town was originally built on an island surrounded by seasonal sheep-walks. Even as late as the early 17th century, there was no road linking Chatteris with Ely.

Hadleigh, in past times a significant wool town, sits alongside a tributary of the Stour.