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A market town rather than a village, Watton has a constant stream of traffic through its bustling centre.

Robins Brothers, not content with filling their windows to bursting, have extended out on to the pavement and into the road.

Traffic comes to a standstill for this large flock of sheep being driven along the main road.

This illustrious town, often called the gateway to Cornwall, crowns the dark hill that rises from the valley of the tiny River Kensey.

Because of the flat roads, bicycles were in abundance both on the streets and greens, so much so that they caused problems for pedestrians.

The chapel of St Thomas once stood on Holywell Street, but even in the 1830s it was little more than a ruin, much of its stone having been taken for other buildings.

To the immediate right is the borough gaol of 1784. Lynn was founded by Herbert, Bishop of Norwich, in about 1100; it was known as Bishop's Lynn until it passed to the Crown in the time of Henry VIII.

This area of the fairground was redeveloped and incorporated into the King's Gardens, which were opened by HM King George V in 1913.

This is not, of course, the original great Tudor palace of 'None such' built by Henry VIII, which was subsequently given to Lady Castlemaine by Charles II.

In November 1569, during the Rising in the North, it was held by Sir George Bowes, a loyal servant of Queen Elizabeth I, against a force led by Charles Neville, Sixth Earl of Westmoreland, and Thomas Percy

Arnold de Boteler was awarded the manor of Dunraven by William de Londres as a reward for his defence of Ogmore Castle when it was attacked by the Welsh.

The octagonal canopy is over 12m high, and its ornate decoration emphasises the significance of baptism in the life of the church.

At the top of Sceptre Hill on the way to Tonbridge stands the Hand and Sceptre Hotel; built in 1663, it became an inn in 1728, serving during this time as a district court.

An attractive village south of the railway line and the River Wreake, Frisby has a number of good houses.

One of Charles Wicksteed's nventions was a machine for the tearooms, which cut and buttered bread.

The view is closed at the far end of the street by Norman Burton's, built in the early 1800s, and just to the right the café sign invites you to Frances Hill's tea rooms.

Dolgellau was the county town of the old county of Merioneth, and is set amid the mountains which are famous for Welsh gold - the mines here provided gold for Royal wedding rings.

This is another view of this splendid Norman castle, built on the site of a Romano-British fortress by Gerald de Windsor as a wooden stronghold.

Here we see Preston Post Office just a couple of years after it opened.

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

Down the north side of the street are the post office, and the Great House, where William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham brought his 15-year-old son, Pitt the Younger, to recover from illness

Another mystery regarding Stonehenge is that many of the stones had been dressed - there is no precedent for such work in Britain prior to Stonehenge.

The new library and mayoral suite were seen as the first phase of a new block of civic buildings, though in fact it was another 30 years before the rest of the site - the Civic Centre and Civic

There are plenty of spectators on the pier to watch the arrival at Hull of the Eclipse class cruiser HMS 'Dido'.