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When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and at

Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the present building dates from the fifteenth century.

The steps lead up to West Cliff with the flagstaff and Cook's statue.

The fishermen are sorting nets and a crab or lobster pot, while three children are posed sitting in their midst reading a book.

Owned for centuries by the Aspinall family, Pendleton was an old village when the Domesday Book was compiled.

Thomas Cook started his travel business from a building overlooking the Clock Tower in 1841, and the front commemorating this historic undertaking, put up in 1894, is, indeed, special.

This is the most northerly of all the photographs in our book. Hammerton Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the grounds.

Historian Arthur Mee, in his book 'The King's England - Oxfordshire,' says that 'if our England is a garden Great Tew is one of its rare plots...never anything but beautiful'.

This is the most northerly of all the photographs in our book. The Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the Hall grounds.

The two gentlemen in the picture are enjoying a lazy afternoon's fishing, whilst their female companion appears to be absorbed in a book and utterly oblivious to our photographer.

A few miles west from Grimsby, the village of Laceby once appeared in the Guinness Book of Records as possessing the two closest pubs – The Waterloo and The Nags Head.

Much Wenlock is the most delightfully evocative town, so much so that Ellis Peters (the local author of the Brother Cadfael detective books set in the 12th century) once said of the town that you almost

He kept a 'little shanty' on the cliffs to which it was his habit to retire, to 'be alone with his books, his thoughts and with God'.

The truth, however, is far less fearsome. Some old guide books claim the name derives from the sloe (or blackthorn) tree, but it more likely comes from 'slough', meaning a muddy place.

We are looking across Irby Road and along Thigwall Road.

The heavily-restored church dates from the 13th century, and inside are a book showing the names of all the 350 victims of the plague, and the chair used by the rector, William Mompesson.

So reads a local guide book of 1924 - and the words are as apt now as they were then.

In Station Road you can book a motorboat or cruiser, and if you are a land-lubber or onlooker you could enjoy a meal in one of the many restaurants.

All looks peaceful and quiet in this photograph. Today all roads seem to lead into Liphook, and it is a busy, noisy place.

On display inside the church is the baptism register recording that the world-famous navigator and explorer Captain James Cook was christened here on 3 November 1728.

The Domesday Book refers to the settlement as Rinwede.

Occupying the corner, right of centre, is Thorogood's ('Fancy Pastry Cook') - originally built as the town's first post office in the early 1870s.

When Lewis Carroll was visiting his father, who was Canon of Ripon from 1852 to 1868, these wonderful carvings inspired his book 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.

Lord Brotherton donated his collection of rare books and gave £100,000 in cash.