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Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs. It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs. It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.

Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.

Beyond are Madeira Cottage and the Assembly Rooms (centre right). The offshore rocks are Lucy's Ledge Jetty, Cobb Gate Jetty and Broad Ledge.

This photograph was taken on or near the old wooden viaduct built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1848 to take the Great Western Railway, which originally ran on a broad gauge track.

The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.

Reedham, in the broad, silent expanses of the Yare valley, was once a thriving North sea port. The chain ferry pictured offers the only passage across the Yare between Norwich and Yarmouth.

Sunset against sombre skies, dark shadowy trees, an invisible breeze, the slap of waters among the reeds... a woman in pinafore dress and bonnet punts her way home after the day's toil.

This village is popular with visitors to Broadland, with St Catherine's Church and its beautiful hammer-beam roof and painted rood screen dating from 1493.

This broad space was turned into a public park in 1840. For centuries before it had been a common, where villagers had grazed their cattle.

This broad space was turned into a public park in 1840. For centuries before it had been a common, where villagers had grazed their cattle.

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.

Edwin Broad, Cash Draper, has overflowed into the next door shop, and just arrived a little further down is an early chain store - Oliver's, the shoe shop.

The many prams and push-chairs were a typical sight in Harlow, leading to its nickname 'Pram Town'.

Barricane Beach is behind the camera, and we see the broad expanse of Woolacombe sands stretching away south towards Croyde.

Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing

When the new Worcester Bridge opened in 1781 it gave Broad Street quite a boost, helping it to support three coaching inns.

This is a pretty scene with a handsome ash tree in the background, and two children in a quiet side street.

Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels. Famous visitors to Lyme have included Daniel Defoe, Mary Mitford, Jane Austen, Alfred Tennyson and Beatrix Potter.

By the 1960s there has been much rebuilding, but Broad Street is still recognisable.

This is Post Office Lane, and the village post office was located in the cottage on the left for many years up until 1966.

Bala`s elegant main street is lined with trees and is unusually broad. This traditional market town was famous for its stocking fairs.