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The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

Sunnyhurst Wood is a Nature Reserve; Sunnyhurst Brook runs through it to join the River Darwen that gave the town its name.

Chapter 2's tour finishes at Highbridge, not one of Somerset's most attractive towns.

In the late 17th century the town had an established, high-quality cheese and butter market, with buyers coming from as far as London to do business.

The sunny summers of the 1950s filled this pool, which had excellent amenities – a café, changing rooms, diving boards, and sunbathing and spectator areas.

Looking east with terrace houses on the left, then a thatched cottage and a 19th-century house with an Ionic porch.

It was along this street that the men of the town swarmed in 1381 towards St Albans. They demanded and received a charter protecting their right of pasture, fisheries and so on.

The Lloyds Bank to the left of the road is still in existence and bears a commemorative plaque to Gwen John and her brother Augustus John, both artists.

Of the businesses that surrounded the square in 1922, only four remain in their original positions: Barclay's Bank, originally built for the East Cornwall Bank in 1885 with the town clock on its corner

Here the stream widens and was used as a waggon wash. He is looking along Germain Street towards the town centre and Market Place, but the houses beyond the bridge gave long been demolished.

From the south-east, a look at the Institute, which has now sprouted a clock, put up in 1891 in memory of Thomas Cramp, the town's diarist and total abstainer.

Chesham also developed north of the town centre along the valleys and ridges in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the northern part being named Newtown.

Opened in June 1860, the Town Hall cost £3,505 to build, and provided space for the County Police Station, with cells and an exercise yard, a courtroom and council offices.

In more modern times the town was a major coaching post on the great North Road, and several fine inns survive here.

Brook's Cafe Restaurant is now The Bradford & Bingley Building Society. The horse is still supreme: it would be another three years before the first car made its appearance in town.

The Guildhall is the town's oldest public building, dating from about 1714, but it was heavily restored during the mid 19th century.

A new town was laid out from 1876 by the Earl of Scarbrough; in 1881 it acquired a splendid pier, seen here and unrecognisable to the modern visitor.

This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families. At this time the Headcorn to Tenterden railway line was opened.

The town of Bishop Auckland grew around the castle and the extensive bishops' deer park with its 18th-century deer house.

The De Brus Cenotaph is the most significant surviving relic of the town's priory.

The building on the left is Hickling's Vaults, which was demolished in 1961, revealing several caves and part of the old town wall underneath.

Brockenhurst is a railway junction well-known to travellers to Southampton, Bournemouth, Lymington and the Isle of Wight.

It is surrounded by the simple grey slate-gabled shops and houses which are so typical of a small Lake District town.

This recreational area just outside the town would be newly laid out at this date. The shrubbery and flowerbeds look well cared for.