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Bognor, further east along the coast beyond Selsey Bill, grew up from a small fishing village and is one of the earliest Sussex sea-bathing resorts.

As we look southwards from the Hele stone, through the middle arch, we can see the tallest stone of the inner horseshoes of trilithons.

Just north of Chipping Norton, in the parish of Great Rollright, lie the Rollright Stones, set in a circle about 100 feet in diameter.

Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from a splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.

In the absence of a pavement, the two men in the centre have found a safe spot whilst they put the world to rights.

Inside is a family tree of the Eden family of Ballingdon Hall. To the right is the 18th-century red brick vicarage with its 19th-century porch.

A mile or so west of Effingham, the Guildford road cranks past a medieval fairy-tale castle.

In 1965, when Greater London was created, Surrey crossed the River Thames and gained a segment of the former county of Middlesex.

Relatives of the Rothchild family lived here, and so did Lord Battersea. The extensive gardens were named the Garden of Dreams, a play on words, as the Garden of Sleep was close by.

Try standing in the middle of the main street nowadays! Here at number 28 we have Joseph Kennerley's drapery and hosiery shop, which also doubled as the post office.

The skill of island masons can be seen in the more recent additions to the Castle. A fence now hides the short castellated turret of the lodge on the road leading away from the castle.

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

Hardly a year passes without some piece of Dorchester's Roman archaeology coming to light. Dorchester is one of the best examples of a Roman town.

Between Richmond and Kew, on the Surrey bank, are the three hundred acres of the Royal Botanical Gardens, opened to the public in 1841.

This beautiful village of brick and tile-hung cottages clusters about its small green. On the extreme left we see cottage walls constructed in the popular Flemish bond.

Anchor Wood is a narrow band of trees with a pleas- ant walk overlooking marshy ground downstream of the Long Bridge and at the foot of Sticklepath.

A conspicuously clean- looking street scene with only the faintest trace of horses. Loveday & Sons, the jewellers, have now occupied their shop at Baddow Road corner for over a century.

This wild and rocky landscape in Wester Ross is typical of the Highlands. The looming quartzite peaks of Beinn Eighe are in the background.

(Courtesy of West Sussex County Library Service) Invariably, there is some sort of collective activity amongst the regular customers of a pub.

This ancient priory church occupies one of the loveliest settings in Hampshire.

The school was founded in 1726 as an endowed charity school for 'orphan gentlewomen borne of parents of the Church of England'.

Within the next decade, the outbreak of the Second World War will necessitate the removal of the statue above the roof of the Corn Exchange to a place of safety.

Bramber was once the main town of one of the Sussex Rapes, or Anglo-Saxon administrative areas, and the seat of William de Braose's Norman castle guarding the Adur gap through the Downs.

The precinct is built on the site of the Townsend tram terminus, next to a junction known as the Cross, which is also the name of a good-looking pub on the opposite corner.