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The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.

On our way back to Camberley we arrive at the Dukes Head public house. Notice the telegraph poles supplying the new telephone system to those who could afford it.

Slough dates back to the 12th century, when it was a hamlet on the London to Bath road. The settlement later spread to the neighbouring parish of Stoke Poges.

Back Beach was the fiefdom of William Curtis & Sons, boatmen and fish merchants from nearby Long Entry on Church Cliffs. The spot was locally known as Curtis Cove.

He was the first to print penny readers for adults and juveniles with the company name on the front and back of the book, and the first to sell cheaply those exercise books with times tables on the back

The smaller lake, for younger children, was separated from the larger one by a hump-backed bridge (K13007, pages 76-77).

In this idyllic scene much loved by artists and photographers, the River Usk wends its way through wooded banks away from Abergavenny and flows on to join the Severn beyond Newport.

In this idyllic scene much loved by artists and photographers, the River Usk wends its way through wooded banks away from Abergavenny and flows on to join the Severn beyond Newport.

A ferry crosses the Exe from here to the village of Starcross on the opposite bank.

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

This half- timbered Wealden Hall House has a late 16th- century sandstone facade at the back.

Looking back across the bridge towards Salutation Square. The Cavendish County Theatre to the right has since been demolished and this area is now the site of the new County Offices.

Slough dates back to the 12th century, when it was a hamlet on the London to Bath road. The settlement later spread to the neighbouring parish of Stoke Poges.

The history of St Hilary's church spans the centuries since the Norman Conquest, and it may even go back to the earliest days of Christianity in Britain.

The photograph shows the rear of the red brick master's house of c1725, which was originally of two stories until a third was added around 1835, backed by a neat garden and tennis courts.

The houses on the left-hand side had been rebuilt further back for road widening in 1870.

The banks beside the road show how it has eroded with use over hundreds of years; because of this the houses and small cottages on Church Street have steps down to the pavement.

The parish church dates back to the 14th century, with 16th-century additions from when the simple old building was enlarged.

This photograph was taken back in the days when an open space in a town did not have to be completely covered by cars! The Angel Hotel was immortalised in Dickens `Pickwick Papers`.

Boroughbridge, to the southeast of Ripon, dates back to Norman times, when a bridge was constructed over the Ure. It was then known as Burgbridge, the borough on the bridge.

Time stands still on a summer's afternoon, with houses going back four hundred years placed all around the square. The market is still held here, and buyers and sellers come in from miles around.

The bank of the river Deben. Just to the right of the sailing barge is Woodbridge tide mill, the later model of a tide mill which has stood here since the early 12th century.

Dittisham is one of the larger villages along the steeply wooded banks of the romantic Dart estuary. A foot ferry takes passengers across the river to Greenway, once the home of Dame Agatha Christie.

The photographer moved back down the road and caught the colonnade of shops, one of Hawkhurst's best known features; this is an early 19th-century shopping arcade with weatherboarded houses and cast-iron