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Axmouth, the last coastal community wholly in Devon, was an important port until its river entrance silted up.

It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port. It passes through delightful countryside, and maintains a level for twenty miles until it reaches Wheaton Aston.

As a D- Day embarkation port, Weymouth had been in the front line throughout the war.

The church was built in the 13th century and enlarged by wealthy Glaven port traders in the 14th century; the features, details and monuments inside are truly outstanding, even among the great wealth

To the south of the harbour stood the power stations and gas works, the main users of coal, which represented over half of the port's total commodities by the end of the 1950s.

cast off from the jetty; beyond, this busy reach of the River Thames is crowded with an assortment of vessels preparing either to take on river pilots for the twenty-six mile journey upstream to the Port

In the event, the main line from Taunton was built as a tub boat canal with a very short life, and an 11-mile stretch from Loudwells to Tiverton was built as a barge canal.

The shop has closed and the telephone kiosk moved a short distance. Stone quarrying is a local industry and fossils have been found.

The village of Hampstead Norris nestles in a shallow valley, the buildings dominated by the short broad tower of St Mary's church in the background.

The Short Brothers built the sheds, the administration blocks and a workers' village called Shortstown. It became an RAF base in 1936.

In November 1869, William T Gunner of Will Hall wrote in his diary: 'walked with Fred Crowley to see the site of his new house [Ashdell House, seen in this photograph]; he will be married shortly.'

Because of its very constricted site, St Helen's Church is immensely wide but relatively short.

After its conversion, The Aubreys was used for a short time as a holiday centre for children from Bethnal Green.

Church Lane runs north from the High Street towards its eastern end, with St Peter's Church a short way along it. The tower is 15th-century, but most of the rest was rebuilt in Victorian times.

At one time vessels could thread their way right up to the town quay, and Lostwithiel grew to be second only to Southampton as a port along the southern seabord.

This celebrated port prospered as a result of its natural deep-water anchorage. The quay was constructed in 1640 and soon after Falmouth was granted the status of Britain's Mail Packet station.

This beautiful 18th century windmill once stood on the quayside of a busy port.

Before being overtaken by Plymouth a couple of decades ear- lier, Brixham was the leading fishing port in Devon. At one time, there were almost 300 trawlers employing 1600 seamen.

To the right of the bend in the road there is a drop down to what was the Commercial Hotel, sited near what was the port in times past.

As the village gradually declined as the port silted up, so its large and impressive church was reduced in size. Only the tower survives intact, and the brick nave was built inside the ruin in 1672.

Outside it has the characteristic long and short Saxon quoins. Odda died at Deerhurst and is buried in Pershore.

In 1955 a Phipps and Company tied house, the brewery merged shortly afterwards with the Northampton Brewery Company to become Phipps Northampton Brewery Company.

H P Farr, watchmaker and jeweller, took over the premises on the right shortly after the end of the Second World War, and he remained here until the mid 1960s.

Outside it has the characteristic long and short Saxon quoins. Odda died at Deerhurst and is buried in Pershore.