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Bigbury-on-Sea stands on a promontory above the River Avon, which rises high on southern Dartmoor. This was a rural backwater until well into the 20th century.

To the right is the ivy-covered gateway leading into School Lane and High Street West.

Labourers have been clearing coppice wood beside the lane from Lostwithiel to Restormel Castle.

Bigbury-on-Sea stands on a promontory above the River Avon, which rises high on southern Dartmoor. This was a rural backwater until well into the 20th century.

Situated among the somewhat reduced remnants of Georgian Leicester, now tightly grouped in New Street, Peacock Lane and Friar Lane, the building is overshadowed by St Martin's Cathedral (upgraded

He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time. His office can be seen here, at the corner of Berry Lane.

This wind-eroded sandstone outcrop, about 30 feet high, is situated on the eastern edge of Stapleford Hill, just off the A6002 Coventry Lane.

He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time. His office can be seen here, at the corner of Berry Lane.

In 1725 the Quakers opened their burial ground in Lower Lane, planting a tree wherever one of their number was buried.

There are sea defences (top left) where Lower Sea Lane converges with Higher Sea Lane.

The High Street is a long one on the main Aylesbury to Buckingham road.

Shatz & Sons (fourth from the right) was a furnishing business established in 1891, with a wholesale warehouse in the High Street and a showroom in Post Office Lane.

The post-war years saw the spread of high-street chains, and Chesterfield was no exception. In this picture we can see local branches of Timsons, Alexander, Burtons, and Boots.

Houses were built on most of the remaining available land - this was mainly between Park Road and Sandy Lane; to the north and south of the High Street; and along Fairfax Road.

Built in 1956-61 to accomodate the enormous increase in road traffic, the roadway hangs from a single steel arch, the top of which is 306 feet above the high-watermark level.

The High Street was part of the original lane which ran through the old village to the sea.

This lane is called Dam Street at its junction with the High Street.

This view of the High Street shows many buildings that have either since disap- peared or have been radi- cally reworked.

It is a highly picturesque village, just a mile or two from the busy A303.

At the end of a lane near the Ouse the parish church is grouped with Church Farm.

This photograph was taken during high summer (note the open windows), but we wonder how many of today's pupils have ever seen Cross Lane so devoid of traffic at any time of year.

Parsons Fee leads south-west from Market Square past Prebendal House, the home of John Wilkes, the radical MP for Aylesbury from 1757 to 1764, and behind high brick walls.

This view looks north along the High Street past the now 'improved' junction with West Lane.

Maiden Lane appears more commercial today than in this view, which was taken from the gateway to St Michael's churchyard.