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Its tiny towerless church stands sentinel over the cottages, gardens and meadows as it has done for some eight hundred years.

Stow-on-the-Wold is the junction of eight major roads, including the Roman Fosse Way, and has always attracted travellers from far and wide.

Willy Lott, the mill-hand, is reputed to have lived in this cottage for eighty-eight years.

To our eyes, the finely crafted wooden wheels belong to an era one hundred years earlier, and appear obsolete when compared to the type of warfare that would be waged eight years later.

Just look at the telephone pole with four eight-way arms and a 'cow horn' on top.

Bidford-on-Avon is one of eight villages satirically described in a rhyme attributed to William Shakespeare and penned after a heavy drinking session.

Four clergymen are disembarking from the sensible little Standard Eight.

The New Brighton Tower was completed in 1898, about eight years after the Blackpool Tower.

Eights such as this one start off about one and a half lengths behind one another, and each boat has to catch up with the one in front, thus 'bumping' it.

The journey from the capital to the naval port by coach took eight hours: the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d. In this picture the Royal Anchor is to the right of the chestnut tree.

A few minutes from the centre of the original village and situated by the weir, this small 19th-century hotel on the banks of the River Lea, with its eight rooms, was, and still is, popular with anglers

During the Civil War it was garrisoned by Royalist troops, but fell in August 1643 after an eight-week siege.

Covering some eight acres, this is believed to be the largest chalk pit in Hampshire.

This magnificent eight- storey gatehouse was built by Sir Henry, 1st Lord Marney, in the 1520s.

A priest and historian, amongst his many works was a much-acclaimed eight-volume 'History of England'.

The beautiful buildings which line the street span some seven or eight centuries, and display a glorious variety of domestic architectural styles.

Octagonal in shape, its eight sides once matched the cardinal and sub-cardinal points of the compass, but polar drift has meant that the sides no longer align.

By the rules of the foundation, for eight centuries travellers have been given bread and ale on demand—the Wayfarers Dole.

Blyth House next door has been reduced to two storeys, and now looks like an eight-bay Georgian house.

During the Civil War it was garrisoned by Royalist troops, but fell in August 1643 after an eight-week siege.

Morte Point`s reputation as a sailors` graveyard was never more deserved than on 26 October 1859 when eight ships - the I`ll Try, the Matthew Thompson, the Rose, the Thistle, the Hannah, the Clara

A further view of the High Street taken eight years after photograph 35669, this time from closer to the columns of the Town Hall.

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.

Pennard stands high above a tidal creek some eight miles west-south-west of Swansea. The ruins are of a late 13th-century castle built on the site of an earlier stronghold.