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This photograph shows the skyline from the profile of Bell Stone (left, top) along to the ramparts of the Iron Age hill-fort on Eggardon Hill (right, top).

In this area there are a concentration of attractive small plaques above the doors and lintels announcing that the cottages are owned by Blakeney Neighbourhood Housing Association.

St Margaret's stands on high ground at the southern end of the present village near the green at Newgate.

The old Gap, originally used by fishermen to reach the sea, had become widened by thousands of visitors' feet, so it was smartened up with ornamental embankments by the camp sites; even

One of the finest castle ruins in the UK, Kenilworth began as a timber fort. The first stone castle was built c1120 by Geoffrey de Clinton, chamberlain and treasurer to Henry I.

The Church of St Peter and St Paul overlooks the River Tame and was founded c1150 by Osbert de Arden. The Norman nave survives, but the chancel and tower were added in the 13th century.

The lychgate is still in place, and so are the school wall and railings (right), the porch of Linden Lea (left), and the stones protecting it from passing traffic.

The Recreation Ground, known as 'the Rec', was purchased by public subscription started in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

The Harbour, or Sands, station dominated Ramsgate beach from the time it was constructed.

The abbey, the oldest building in Minster, is to be found at the lower end of the village.

Those factories were especially renowned for the quality of their Liberty cottons.

Although still firmly in Derbyshire, Long Eaton has almost been swallowed up by the suburbs of nearby Nottingham, across the River Trent to the east.

The author, who owns a touring caravan, has mixed opinions on this view of Cromer from East Runton.

This is Fred and Joan Shepherd (themselves Dunmow residents) being carried in a replica of the ancient Flitch Chair.

Tradition alleges that Athelhampton is the site of a palace of the Saxon King Athelstan, though the present house is largely Tudor.

Yetminster rather resembles one of those lovely stone built villages in the Cotswolds, and has an unusual look for a Dorset settlement.

Fletcher's House, on the top right, is said to be the birthplace in 1576 of the dramatist John Fletcher of Beaumont and Fletcher fame; he also collaborated with Shakespeare on 'Two Noble Kinsmen'.

East Dean's simple war memorial fits well on the green of this flint-built village.

In the 1960s, camping was the most important of all scouting activities, and Scout and Cub groups - no Guides until the late 1960s - brought their own tents and other equipment to the open

Beaumont trained at Versailles and was in much demand, but spent the last 40 years of his life working for James Bellingham at Levens Hall.

Later, brought within easy travelling distance of Liverpool by the railway, wealthy businessmen built comfortable houses away from the city's grime.

The nearer is a war memorial and the other is a massive stone cross, erected on the base of the original village cross.

After World War I the base of the Maiwand Memorial with its fluted pilasters and stone swags was rebuilt in a harder limestone, for the name panels had eroded badly.

In 1912 the college was an extension college of London University, which is how most of the 'red brick' universities started; it achieved independent status in 1926.