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The remains were rediscovered by workmen some time after the Dissolution; it is said that they cut off the head and used it as a football.

A steamer, with a party of sightseers on board, has just left the quay heading down river. The women cluster at the stern under parasols. A little further along on the left is Cleopatra’s Needle.

A steamer, with a party of sightseers on board, has just left the quay heading down river. The women cluster at the stern under parasols.

The route leaves Newark and heads six miles west to the small and delightful town of Southwell, whose minster church had been founded by the Archbishop of York before AD956.

When the bus station opened on 20 May 1963, much Castleford history was lost with the demolition of the Queen's Head Hotel and Wainwright Street.

The school was renamed Roger de Clare School in 1969 when Mr Pritchard was head teacher; it moved to new premises in 1974, when the building was converted to housing.

The origins of the parish church of St Peter on Heysham Head are lost in the mists of time. The earliest recorded date is 1080, when it was noted as an old Saxon church.

Heading back north, we cross the River Yeo and reach Somerton, another medieval market town, this time on a ridge in the Polden Hills and on the south bank of the River Cary, which weaves through the

We head away from Cheddar to Wedmore, a small town in the fork of a valley on the north side of the ridge that stretches west from Wells. It looks across the Levels to the Mendips.

Across is the Saracen's Head Inn with its unusual massive stone sign. Weighing 3 cwt it was so heavy that it had to be brought down to ground level, as it was causing the wall to bulge.

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

Bootscrapers, timber-sashed windows and moulded brick arched heads to the ground floor windows and doors provide a quality so often lacking in modern housing.

A postman on his round chats to two local residents opposite the King's Head pub (right), where empty barrels and several crates of bottles await collection by the brewer's dray.

On each side of the hawse timber are a number of wooden stanchions called timber heads, which were used to secure her when mooring.

This picture of the famous lighthouse on Middle Head was taken from Bracelet Bay.

The ground is now part of the playing fields of Seaford Head School and the buildings with two storeys of timber-railed verandahs have gone.

The ground is now part of the playing fields of Seaford Head School and the buildings with two storeys of timber-railed verandahs have gone.

The buildings beyond The King's Head have gone, and the wall on the right has been replaced by a row of lock-up shops.

The two small ferries berthed alongside the pier are the 'Rose' and the 'Thistle', which were used on the Douglas Head service.

Local historian John Eastwood records that a 13ft-long mermaid is said to have been washed up here in 1757, 'its head partly human and partly that of a hog, its extremity that of a fish.'

Beyond are the coastal heights of Stonebarrow Hill and Golden Cap (right), which at 617ft above sea level - higher than Beachy Head - is the highest point on the south coast.

The King Lud pub on the far corner of Farringdon Street on the left is now known as the Hog's Head.

It is decorated with a carved head on each side depicting three board members and Queen Victoria. It also served as a drinking fountain, but the water has now been cut off.

The Marquis, it is true, had no more life outside Dickens's brain than Sam himself, but its counterpart in our everyday world is said to have lain in North Street, the King's Head, a vast establishment