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Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

In the background is St Wilfred's, which was repaired in 1612 at the expense of Sir William Craven. The church houses an 11th-century font and some fragments of Anglo-Saxon sculpture.

Widecombe, probably Dartmoor's most well-known village, stands in the broad valley ('Wide Combe') of the East Webburn river.

This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey

The broad channel between Drake's Island and Mount Edgecumbe, known as The Bridges, is only navigable via one narrow channel, which is why ships always appear to take 'the long way round', following

Horse-drawn coaches wait patiently to take passengers from the boats at Waterhead, near Ambleside on Windermere.

The long straight character of the Shropshire Union canal is plain to see here. The builder, Thomas Telford, believed in cutting through hills and bridging valleys.

The boat in the foreground is a typical St Ives 'gig'. Its shallow keel was specially suited to a tidal harbour like St Ives. Beyond the fishing boats can be seen the prow of a cargo vessel.

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

One of the favourite venues for Nottingham people - the embankment steps on a warm summer's day attracting families and swans.

Here, we see the market where trippers could buy fish caught by local boats.

Behind the corner of the Boat Float, and distinguished by a white awning, is Parade House (centre), built in 1880 to replace the Assembly Rooms.

The lawn of a country house sweeps down to the water; a pile of mown grass can be seen on the right.

The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.

Reedham, in the broad, silent expanses of the Yare valley, was once a thriving North sea port. The chain ferry pictured offers the only passage across the Yare between Norwich and Yarmouth.

Sunset against sombre skies, dark shadowy trees, an invisible breeze, the slap of waters among the reeds... a woman in pinafore dress and bonnet punts her way home after the day's toil.

Both public house and petrol station prospered with the increasing volume of traffic on a road that the Edwardian topographer Sir Frederick Treves had described as 'a delightful walk'.

Once inside the gate, we can see the main building across the boating lake.

Visitors enjoy the broad prospects from the pleasure gardens on the Great Orme.

So successful was the boating lake, which opened in 1924, that six years later it was doubled in size by an extension south of the big bridge.

Villagers wait with their baskets for the boats to come in with their catches of herring.

This peaceful lane is often used by those keen to watch the boats go by. Many hikers have strolled into this pretty village to see its cliffs and cottages.

This is Main Bay, which changed its name to Viking Bay following the arrival in 1949 of a replica Viking ship, the Hugin.

We are looking from Cobb Gate Jetty beside the Assembly Rooms (far right).