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The busy railway station situated just behind the photographer closed after the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, and this part of Somersham quietly faded into obscurity with no new development after the pre-war
This is the view south down the High Street from outside Beech Hurst, which is off to the left.
Before the Beeching axe fell, trains stopped at Rudgwick, on the line between Horsham and Guildford.
This sprawling riverside village lies between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.
The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.
The chestnut palings are now a smart well-trimmed beech hedge.
To the west of Compton Bishop, the former Crooks Peak Guest House is now a private house, almost invisible behind high beech hedges.
Although Beeching axed the trains on this line, he left this magnificent structure as it was.
The large house is The Beeches, and beyond it is the office of Mulley's Motorways.
It is now festooned with beech trees, planted in 1760, and for which it has a local reputation.
The old parish included the townships of Beech, Kibblestone, Hilderstone and Normacott, and in 1811 the population was around 6,000 people.
It is now festooned with beech trees, planted in 1760, and for which it has a local reputation.
The spectacular beauty of the beech woods near the village of Cranham, particularly in autumn when the foliage changes colour, has long attracted visitors.
Native to this country, beeches were planted for shelter, ornament and, of course, their timber.
The famous avenue of beech trees, planted in 1835, extends over two miles of undulating countryside to form an imposing approach to the northern entrance to Kingston Lacy Park.
The pre-Beeching Act railways meant that people were able to visit a vast array of holiday destinations.
View 49180 looks west from the junction with Langley Park Road along Christchurch Park, with the well-known copper beech trees newly planted in the verges.
This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking
The railway line was axed during the Beeching era, and the sturdy bridge was lost at that time.
With its spectacular beech hangers, green hills and downland, it is not surprising to learn that this corner of east Hampshire is known as 'Little Switzerland.'
