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This old inn was a haven for sailors and those who lost their way on Pilling sands.

Oulton was another of the series of medieval broads stretching northward into Norfolk.

The history of Hutton-Le-Hole is recalled in the fascinating Folk Museum established in 1964. Piped water came to the village in 1892 after an outbreak of typhus.

The largest seaside town in West Sussex, Worthing began to grow as a fashionable resort towards the end of the 18th century.

The dawning of the railway age helped in no small way to put Burgess Hill on the map, and the Railway Hotel can be seen on the right in this picture.

Calshot has long been popular with local people and holidaymakers for the views it affords of Southampton Water.

The High Street, across the Witham via Town Bridge rebuilt in 1913, presents a mainly late Georgian character with mostly three-storey frontages to the pavement edge, but many of these conceal earlier

Beyond The Strait, Steep Hill commences with The Jew's House, a Norman stone house of the 1170s, before climbing more steeply up towards the cathedral and castle on the top of the hill.

The site is on the banks of the river Adur about a mile from Steyning on the present A283; it made use of both a natural mound and a pre-Conquest earthwork.

Warton Crag is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty; in a limestone region, it has an abundance of rare wild flowers, birds and mammals.

The wide streets, stone buildings and the war memorial in the centre of Langley Park look much the same today.

One of the 18th-century vicars incorporated a large section of it into the grounds of the new vicarage with the Bishop's permission, enraging the local inhabitants.

William Nicholson of Thelwall Hall financed its building in 1843 to replace an earlier chapel. All Saints is seen here after the addition of a chancel in 1857 and the alterations of the early 1890s.

This early Victorian mansion in Jacobean-revival style was built between 1833-45 on the site of an earlier house.

Its name refers to its position on the river Anton. In 1945 its population was 16,000, but today it is three times that. High Street remains unchanged, and is still used for markets on Saturdays.

We can assume that it is winter by the look of the tree. A lady waits for her husband beside their car. Has he leaned an item of furniture against the telephone box?

As we look north towards Market Square, Hutchinson's tobacconist shop is at the corner of Langton Street.

How well-ordered the wide street scene appears as it curves away towards Uppingham, with virtually no cars, only rumbling trams and plenty of buses.

The charter not only gave them the lordship of the manor of Hallgarth and a large collection of property, but also the right to collect tolls belonging to the manor, and the right (previously held

The buildings on the left date from c1725, when the Crown owned the castle; it is now a museum of Ribble life.

Gone are the market stalls and booths of an earlier era. Here are the vans and accoutrements of a modern thriving market town, utilising the fronts of the Georgian buildings.

On the high ground between Dover and Canterbury are a number of one-time mining villages; amidst them is the surprisingly attractive hamlet of Frogham, a collection of pretty cottages.

The Tavistock road leads away from Plymouth to the fringes of Dartmoor, and has always been a busy highway.

Nearby on the summit of Blacklow Hill is a monument to Piers Gaveston, the favourite of Edward II.