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Sible Hedingham is a large village in the Colne Valley. It was once well-known for its hops, and for its toy-works.

The church of St Peter occupies an island site where the main street divides.

Mothers and daughters take advantage of the excellent views of the Severn afforded them from the churchyard of St Peter's.

The new church, St Peter's, seems to have been deliberately placed in a prominent position close to the market place and the approach to the castle.

St Peter's is the only church in the Manchester area to have been commissioned from George Edmund Street.

The earliest mention of this Norman church is 1149, although during the reign of King Athelstan (AD925-940) there was a wooden church here.

The Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Thomas of Canterbury was built in the 15th century; it was extended in 1858, when the north aisle was added.

Begun as a manor house, Bishop Auckland was castellated around 1300, though much of the building shown here dates from the extensive alterations carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries.

St Peter's was originally a chapel of ease to Cartmel Priory, and was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 30 June 1745.

The fine tower and spire of St Peter's Church dominated much of central Bournemouth, until unkind planners allowed the construction of too many large buildings nearby.

Ipsley was in Warwickshire when it was mentioned in Domesday Book (1086), and only transferred to Worcestershire in 1931. It predates Redditch, but has long since been swallowed up by it.

The square seems quite small now for a town which has had an extremely active market since the 13th century.

A new village was born around the railway station and with it a new church, St Mary's, built in 1892 by Sir Arthur Blomfield.

This admirable market town, with its Queen Anne and Georgian buildings, was once hailed as 'the Montpellier of England'. Five roads meet at the market square.

Sudbury had a corn and cattle market on Thursdays with a general market on Saturdays. There was also an annual pony sale, attended by travellers, on Market Hill.

The long village High Street running down from the ridge overlooking the Weald and the 13th-century church of St Peter is lined with picturesque tile-hung cottages.

These attractive almshouses on Stydd Lane, complete with a well for their water, were built by John Shireburn in 1728 to house five Catholic spinsters or widows.

St Peter's Church was completely Gothicised in the mid 19th century. The roof and main walls of the old church were retained and the walls encased in flint.

In 1862 George Charnley Dewhurst, a wealthy Manchester cotton magnate, bought the Oughtrington estates and became a benefactor to the village.

It was founded in 1347 as a chapel of ease to Aston. Water Orton became a separate parish in 1871, and the new Church of St Peter and St Paul was built of brick in 1878-79.

This is a lovely environment for children to go to school; here they have been photographed during their break.

A wonderfully varied street scene in this ancient town displays the varied architecture from different centuries in the town's history.

Here is another broach spire, 102ft tall, after the style of St Peter's, Barnstaple. The church, St James, is packed with interest.

Back to the east of St Peter's Hill, the photographer looks north along Castlegate, with the Beehive Inn on the left; the leaves hide a beehive set in the tree, which is still there.