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Kirkhead Tower c1965 The folly of Kirkhead Tower stands on a headland overlooking the small coastal village of Allithwaite, which takes its name from a Norse settler named Eilifr.

Grey Friars Café (left) was built in 1889 as Cocoa Rooms by the Countess of Zetland, a staunch advocate of temperance.

Once an important and flourishing market on the old coach road, Lenham embodies a fine mix of building styles from medieval through to Georgian in its houses and shops.

The high pitch of the roof on the house to the right suggests that it may originally have been of thatch.

Wareham almost qualifies for our section on coastal towns, for its links with the sea are strong. The town supplied Edward III with three ships and 59 men for his siege of Calais.

Ahead at the top of the hill is Whitgift Hospital, which was built as a home for 16 men and 16 women in 1596 by the Archbishop Whitgift. The building then marked the edge of the town.

At the time of this photograph, Norwood Road still has tramline points at the junction with Dulwich Road on the right.

An old guidebook stressed the benefits to health of a holiday in Weymouth: 'Weymouth is much more open than the majority of seaside resorts, and is almost surrounded by salt water.

West Street 1930 This town was a considerable port in the middle ages, but the silting up of its ancient harbour led to a decline in trade.

The Hospital of St Cross was founded by Bishop Henry de Blois in 1136 and is the oldest almshouse in England, originally built to house, clothe and feed 'thirteen poor impotent men, so reduced in strength

As the following pictures show, this part of the seafront underwent numerous changes over the next few years, gradually increasing the amount of entertainment on offer.

In 1831 John, Earl of Shrewsbury, made this house his permanent home.

Where better to begin an exploration of Taunton town than in Fore Street, very much the centre of this ancient Borough.

The village of Iffley has been swallowed up by Oxford, though its true heart remains intact. Iffley Mill, first mentioned in 1106, was destroyed by fire in 1908.

This view of the north or garden front shows the design of this beautiful and well-proportioned house with its projecting side wings and pedimented centre, the whole forming a letter H plan.

The great architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner waxed lyrical about the quality of Dudley's animal accommodation in his volume on Staffordshire, published in 1974.

The hotel was built on Clifton Estate land, partly surrounded with stretches of the traditional Fylde cobbled walls of which Lytham still possesses some fine examples.

The beautiful cast iron tracery of the Pavilion was only completed in 1871, so it was brand new when this photograph was taken.

In a rather smart streetscape of mostly rendered buildings, how evocative these splendid old vehicles look.

The branch line from Wadebridge runs along the southern shore of the estuary; the first train ran on 23 March 1899.

Sherborne is in some people's estimation the most attractive of the Dorset towns.

Changes wrought by a quarter of a century are plain to see by contrasting this picture with No 48265.

Jack, on the left, is a large brick-built tower mill which was worked until the early part of this century.

The most distinctive feature of the church is its curious 'candle-snuffer' two-tier steeple, but the village also remembers that in 1560, its vicar was Edmund Drake, father of Francis Drake.