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Bridge Street is one of the main streets of the city of Chester, and still follows the original street plan laid down by the Romans.

At the bottom end of Fore Street, on the right, is another Elizabethan building: the old Grammar School of 1583, with its tall porch bay, now part of Chard School.

It is said that the first rumblings of the Luddite Movement were felt in Anstey with the breaking of the knitting frames; the village had expanded rapidly to accommodate an influx of workers.

An incredibly low ebb- tide, which would also have coincided with one of the highest tides of the century, has exposed the rock pools on Lucy's Ledge.

On the other side of the church lie the marshes of the Blyth estuary, which is why this magnificent church is known as the Queen of the Marshes.

This view of Great Gable is unusual, as it is taken from the north. The usual view of the shapeliest mountains in the Lake District is from the head of Wasdale, where it dominates the scene.

The 236ft single span cast-iron bridge was designed by Thomas Paine, author of 'The Rights of Man'. Built in 1793-96, it was considered one of the engineering masterpieces of the day.

The town clusters around the stronghold, clinging to the steep slopes in a series of steeply inclined roads. Harlech Castle is the very image of a mediaeval stronghold.

Manor Park Road runs along the east side of Manor Park. This view is taken a little way north of its junction with Carshalton Road.

The village of Northchapel, which is situated 5 miles north of Petworth, was formerly a chapelry of Petworth, and only became a parish in its own right after an Act of Parliament in 1693.

Washington, at the crossroads of two ancient routes, lies at the northern head of a 'wind gap' in the undulating chalk downland of high ridges and dry valleys.

This famous landmark situated at 22a Clifton Drive has always had this name because of its pure white exterior.

A little out of shot is the church of St Mary, which has an unusual gravestone in memory of Phillis Humphreys, who died at the age of 58 in 1763.

The hounds cluster around the door of this venerable white stuccoed landmark, which has been an inn since 1388.

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

Most of the delightful old houses along this street were constructed during the 15th century, at a time when the village prospered as part of the profitable cloth trade centred on Cranbrook.

Above the modern shopfronts and advertising signs, the picturesque assortment of buildings bear testimony to the city's rich history.

An Edwardian, steeply-gabled terrace of shops and flats overlooks the dignified stone island War Memorial of 1923, with its stepped approach.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

The village of Halsall is situated near to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The village once had its own grammar school; the building is now the choir vestry of St Cuthbert's.

Sharing its name with the river in whose valley it lies, Darwen grew rapidly as a result of industrialisation in the early 19th century, and many of the buildings along Market Street were

Most of Alcester Street was demolished in the 1960s, but this small part of it survived.

Cowplain developed because of the main road from Portsmouth to London; its name means 'a clearing for cows'.

This is another picturesque Hampshire village, home to a good selection of perfect whitewashed thatched cottages.