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One of the county's most attractive villages, Crondall has an assortment of picturesque cottages. It has an interesting history too.

The presence of the mount contributed to the growth of nearby Marazion, which flourished in its shadow and catered for the many pilgrims who came to the Benedictine priory which was built on the summit

This part of the village is immediately behind the church. Bolton Hall Estate own most of the property here; no new houses have been built, nor is there employment other than in agriculture.

Situated at the top of Mill Street, Tilly's advertised '…luncheons, teas and light refreshments, everything homemade.'

Until around 1950 Eaton had twenty thatched buildings, but today only about a third of that number survives, including Hunter's Close pictured here.

The hotel takes its name from the local village name and that of Robert de Banastre, who acquired the estate in the 12th century.

All of this area of Warrington has now been pedestrianised.

The four round towers of the castle which enclose the courtyard can be climbed to a considerable height.

These Cub accommodation huts were ex-service huts made of corrugated asbestos, brought to the park as 'flat packs' to be bolted together on site.

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

Cars now line both sides of the road, and it would be hard to argue that they do not detract from the visual appeal of the Georgian street scene.

The building on the right – now demolished as part of the road widening scheme - advertises the Crown Hotel, on the other side of the road.

Once the home of a bandstand and a small zoo boasting peacocks and monkeys, Belle Vue was also the site for the 1897 Welsh National Eisteddfod.

The two villages of Offord Darcy and Offord Cluny run into each other. Facing a bend in the road is the Horseshoe Inn; the date 1626 is carved on the jettied cross wing of the inn.

We are now looking east along Hart Street towards the parish church of St Mary.

As for today's children, the park is certainly a place of happiness for them.

The building in the centre of the photograph is the Market Hall; today it is really only a façade, as it is now part of the new Crown Centre which adjoins it on the right.

In the 19th century this area was the centre of a busy coal mining industry.

Originally the site of the village pump, this cross is at the junction of five roads. The George Inn, behind the cross, and the King's Arms (left) are now just houses.

The hotel, which incorporates parts of a 14th-century building, features in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers'; it is in front of the hotel's ancient fireplace that Mr Pickwick warms his coat tails.

Generally known as 'The Market House', the building is 18th-century in origin and formed a covered area wherein farmers' wives and younger members of their families could display dairy products and similar

Now apartments, the convent was established c1850 by the Religious of the Assumption, who ran a girls' boarding school until 1993.

A flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep are driven down the road from the village green by a shepherd and his dog in the Upper Wharfedale village of Buckden in the Yorkshire Dales.

This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.