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The Red Lion can be traced back to 1680 and stood alone until the arrival of the railways and Cane Hill Hospital.

This view is from beside the Ice House, its balcony covered in creeper, looking back down Castle Hill.

A walk up the hill takes the visitor back a hundred years.

Prickend marks the end of one expanse of land that stretches from Petts Wood in the south and to Summer Hill in the west.

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

When Marlborough Road was built in the 1960s, although it appears on a map to extend Duke Street towards the hill and one can walk through, there is no vehicular access between the two roads

This view was taken in the middle of the village, and is looking down Updown Hill.

St Teresa's Convent was established in Effinghamhill House, a stucco early 19th- century mansion in the chalk hills two miles south of Effingham village.

Do not shout too loud about it, though, as there are many locals who would rather it were back across the border.

Moving east, the route passes through Whitchurch on its way back to Aylesbury.

The Norman church of St Nicholas is perched on a small hill near the castle ruins.

Horstead's old mill would have seen many wherries drawn up at its wharf.

Do not shout too loud about it, though, as there are many locals who would rather it were back across the border.Tubber Hill is on the outskirts of Barnoldswick; running alongside it is part of the

This peaceful village lies below the slopes of the Greensand Hills.

East of the village, the Shelford Road climbs on to the red sandstone hills, which are undercut by the River Trent to form river cliffs.

It was originally built as a chapel in the 12th century; the present commanding building on its hill overlooking the village mainly dates from the 15th century.

The gentleman proudly escorts three elegant ladies dressed in white; other people further back are intrigued by the crab boats, which were probably made by Leonard Lown or his son Henry.

Founded in 1609 by Robert Sackville, Earl of Dorset, as almshouses for twenty-one poor men and ten poor women, it was completed in 1619 in the local sandstone and is set back from the High Street.

Back in Surrey, the route reaches Haslemere; we look south-west along the High Street into the market place of this small town, with the 1814 Town Hall closing the vista.

Swindon - 'swine down' or 'pig hill' - is Wiltshire's largest settlement; it grew from the two villages of Old and New Swindon of about 2,000 inhabitants in 1900 to its present size of about

In 1908 this view was possible, but Lea Hill is now too tree-covered.

Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back. A

Not only does the ancient 'Jurassic Trackway' run on a north-south line to the east of the village towards Tilton-on-the Hill, but a Neolithic road from Leicester, eastwards towards Ingarsby, skirts the

old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces in Pitsmoor and Hillsborough to the north, in Walkley and Crookes to the west, in Sharrow and Heeley to the south and Park Hill