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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.'
Above a great double avenue of beech trees, which line the road from Wimborne, lies the huge hillfort of Badbury.
As the industrialisation of weaving gathered pace, the town was eventually reached by the railway in July 1848.
The village also has a windmill, which at 80 feet is the tallest windmill to have been built on The Wirral.
The magnificent topiary gardens of Levens Hall, near Kendal, were laid out by the King's gardener Beaumont, who trained at Versailles, in 1692.
This large area of deciduous woods, in which beech predominates, is a favourite with walkers.
Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease.
The 188 acres of Healey Dell became a Nature Reserve in 1976.
We are looking north-westwards from above Lower Yondover Farm to the 1839-built Congregational chapel (centre left) at the crossroads near Laurel Farm.
Pictured here is the junction of London Road (the A31) and Church Lane.
Beech Hurst was built in 1798 for ship's master Samuel Rolles, who was involved in Poole's trade with Newfoundland.
Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.
The bridge, built in 1848, carried the Great Northern Railway main line from Grimsby to London King's Cross (via Peterborough), but since the Beeching cuts it now only carries the Skegness to Nottingham
Today, Knowle End Wood, Edge Hill Wood, Castle Wood and Edgehill Covert grace the top of the escarpment, forming a continuous band of woodland nearly two miles long.
Today, Knowle End Wood, Edge Hill Wood, Castle Wood and Edgehill Covert grace the top of the escarpment, forming a continuous band of woodland nearly two miles long.
Close to the village of Nettleden is one of the most beautiful places in the county.
The western suburbs of Bridgwater grew in the late 19th century to incorporate the village of Wembdon, whose church was at the far east end of the village.
Clydach Gorge, once populated by forges, is well-known for its stands of beech trees which somehow survived the ravages of the charcoal-burners of the time.
Washington is on the main London to Worthing Road at the foot of the Downs.There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up
Farley Green is situated towards the south end of Albury parish, and its fields are carved out of the surrounding greensand woods.
