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Wetheral congregates around its spa- cious triangular village green, which is overlooked by a number of fine, large 18th-century houses.

The exuberantly decorated York House (right) was built in 1893 in a Victorian attempt to look Elizabethan - even down (or up) to the chimneys.

Sydling's manor house, a possession of Winchester College, was leased to Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's favourite, in 1590.

The old Litany Desk commemorates parishioner Henry Nicholson, 'a chief musician in this House of God'.

The 16th-century thatched Plough public house with its low ceilings, exposed beams and stone flagged floor is still open today, but the post office, across the road, has closed since the time this photograph

The grounds of Cobtree Manor, at Sandling, close to Maidstone, now house the Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree Manor Golf Course and a 250 acre park.

Here, on the corner with St Stephens Lane, stands the Ancient House.

Here carved in granite on the Victorian Town House, these indicate the age and status of the city.

Like so many little Kent villages, with its cottages and houses clustered around a small green, Saltwood epitomises the rural atmosphere of the county at the turn of the last century.

The suspension bridge across to a house on the Island is still a feature of Newquay's Towan Beach.

They are being loaded from the oast house onto a lorry to be taken to market.

Before assuming the role of the first military town in Britain, Aldershot was no more than a pretty village comprising a church, a manor house and several farms, close to an area of open heathland.

Missing, of course, is the enormous Cater House - though the crane indicates that it was already more than a twinkle in the architect's eye.

Scott owned several houses in the city: the most famous was 39 Castle Street, where he wrote many of the Waverley novels.

Jeremiah's Tea House (centre) used to be one of the favourite places to drive out to from Cambridge in the 1960s.

Built to an original design by Sir Christopher Wren, it is believed that Aspley House's chequered history includes a spell as an outpost of the work of the Special Operations Executive during World War

At the east end, Lower Close leads into Hook's Walk with its excellent brick and flint-built houses, many rendered and colour-washed.

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

This serene view belies the fact that this was a busy industrial area until 1914, accommodating cloth mills, dye houses, a foundry and gas works.

This old Round House was built for the use of the canal lengthmen, who maintained certain sections, or lengths, of the Thames and Severn canal, which started near Inglesham, close to Lechlade.

A No 147 bus waits outside The Eagle Tavern on the right, and on the left a fingerpost beyond the Imperial Forces public house points towards the public lavatories in Riverside Gardens.

Hollyhocks grow against the building, and Myddylton House (left) has lost its Virginia creeper - instead, wisteria is in bloom.

The Victorian railway houses of New Bradwell are in the background.

It was built in 1876 to designs by Norman Shaw, his only house in the area.