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In 1837 the local squire, Reverend Canon Rogers, commissioned James Rendell to design a harbour for the Loe.

Deep within The Hurtwood at Abinger Bottom are several stone-built cottages surrounded by pine trees. A stream, that eventually joins the Tillingbourne, runs through the hamlet.

In the late 1970s, Tom Graveney, the Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and England cricketer, was landlord of The Royal Oak Inn (left).

Here we see Conigar Walk running down the bank of the River Usk.

The Mount is still largely undeveloped today, its tree-clad slopes rising to the south west of the town.

The stone-built building to the right of the Yelde Hall was a butcher's run by Greig & Co in the 1950s.

Longfords Lake was created in 1806 as a reservoir to feed the large nearby cloth mill run by the Playne family. Originally 15 acres in extent, it is now much silted up.

The isolated village of Skinningrove lies behind the camera – it is a community used to hardships and exposed to fierce winter weather.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

In front of the Mitre Tavern stands this memorial to the 13 men of the village who fell in the Great War. Cottages here date from the mid 18th century.

The church and Clergy House lie closer to the river, while the village, completely unspoilt, runs north-south along higher ground.

Apart from the lack of traffic, remarkably little has changed since this photograph was taken.

The Dam is still the popular name for Clowne's reservoir at Harlesthorpe, north of the former coal-mining village.

This was the iron works that made such things as the bridge over Micheldever Road.

This is the most well- known part of Rockley Sands, as it is seen from the Weymouth to Waterloo trains running along the embankment built across the harbour.

The Diocesan Teacher Training College at Hockerill was started by the Rev Menet and the Rev Rhodes in 1852.

Sussex Street, running between Sidney and Hobson Streets, was redeveloped in the 1930s, and finished off with these elegant colonnades.

Aveton Gifford (pronounced Auton, meaning the settlement on the Avon) stands at the head of the estuary.

Rochester's High Street runs along the famous Roman Watling Street; it has not changed greatly since this view was taken. The timber-framed house dates from the late 16th century.

Sussex Street, running between Sidney and Hobson Streets, was redeveloped in the 1930s and finished off with these elegant colonnades.

Nestling deep in a wooded valley, the tranquillity of this view is a world away from the busy A287 that runs through here today.

We are looking south along the High Street past the Olde Place Hotel, whose brick and flint façade disguises a 16th-century half-timbered building.

The river Dunt has been diverted to run alongside the road.

This road was built on the site of Rookery Farm, and an ancient footpath still runs through this estate which was used to service the farm.