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Occupying a hill-top, Preesall grew as a small market around a corn mill and two pubs, both of which are shown here, the Black Bull and the Saracen's Head.

We are looking from the Nag's Head Island side towards Bridge Street and the town.

A real donkey usually heads the Palm Sunday procession to St James' Church - a lovely tradition in a village full of character.

It was originally a fordrough (a rough unmade track) across the fields of Shirley Farm, which used to be opposite the Saracen's Head.

In the High Street, the house (centre left) will soon be the shop of Henry Stile's gent's outfitters; in the centre are the Tiger's Head, landlord Edward Smith, and the gabled Boot Stores of 1905.

An open-top bus heading for Redhill via Epsom overtakes a lone cyclist outside the Green Man public house (right), with its swinging sign showing a figure dressed in forester's green.

The King's Head (left) is also Georgian.

Magdalen College from the Bridge 1938 During the Civil War Royalist forces defended Magdalen Bridge by throwing rocks from the top of the bell tower down on the heads of Parliamentarians below

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.

It has a large circular grassed area at the head of the cul-de-sac in the distance.

Will the cows head straight on or turn right? Opposite the parked car is now a petrol station, and to the right there is a convenience store and post office.

One of the few thatched buildings in the area, the Duke's Head is no longer a public house.

The High Street becomes Fore Street as it heads down towards the river Exe. The street today is a mass of shops and attractive buildings, none more so than Tuckers Hall.

It was designed and built in 1828 by Decimus Burton.The omnibus on the right, heading for Pimlico, is advertising the famous furnishing and decorating emporium of Maples.

This shows the 2,253ft long bridge with a train heading north.

Northleach stands on the road from South Wales to London, and so it became an important coaching town where inns such as the half-timbered Kings Head on the left provided shelter and accommodation to passengers

Meads and the slopes leading up to the Downs and Beachy Head were consid- ered ideally healthy, and convalescent homes and large villas proliferated: it used to be known as Eastbourne's Belgravia.

Heading north-east out of Bath on the A4, cross the A46 junction onto the old A4, which soon becomes Batheaston High Street.

Heading north-east we come to Wisbech St Mary, which is built alongside the New River, which takes the water of the Nene to the huge pumping station at Denver Sluice.

The about-turn view of the last picture, this shows the unmistakable path beaten across The Green to the Queen's Head.

Those still trading are the Surrey Yeoman (see 46016 overleaf), the Bull's Head (Rose Hill, which we can see in 54666, right, with its entrance on the corner of the High Street and just behind the

The royal coach heads out across the courtyard of the Palace bound for The Mall. A throng of carriages waits to join the procession across London.

A branch line was promised as early as 1841, but until July 1844 the only way manufacturers could get their products to a rail-head was by horse and cart to Elland station.

The resort's great advantage, rather like Eastbourne with Beachy Head, was the rugged and romantic sandstone cliffs and glens immediately to the east.