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The village population had grown to just short of 700, and there were now over 100 houses. The way of life had remained basically agricultural.

This well, with its thirteen water jets, is a reconstruction of an earlier one destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's troops.

Fortunately for the hotel, it has been taken over by a group of local businessmen, and it looks much, much better now.

Directly above St Michael's Church (right) one can see Abbey House and the ruined shell of the classical banqueting hall built by Sir Hugh Cholmley in 1672, roofless since the 1790s; at the

A lone tent sits on the empty sands.

Situated near the south end of High Street, this is generally regarded as the finest civic building of its period in the country.

This broad expanse of the old Portsmouth Road is lined with pollarded trees.

The church of St Mary was founded in the 11th century and was enlarged and over-restored in the Victorian era, but it still retains its Norman chancel and original windows.

This wide sweep of sand leads to Whitby in the distance.

Plans were requested for a Town Hall costing about £20,000, but by its opening on 27 September 1871 the bill was £160,000. W H Crossland designed the 88ft-long building.

This first chapter is a tour from west to east in the parts of Surrey most affected by London. We start in Egham, a town on higher ground south of the River Thames.

The war memorial replaced an earlier obelisk with gas lamps attached; this had stood in the middle of what was a sheep market until 1885, the livestock market then moving to a new site in Bury

Summertime flash floods are a fact of life at Upwey, where the River Wey flows southwards beside Church Street to Westbrook Farm and the Manor House.

The mill, on the south bank of the Great Ouse, later became a hosiery factory, and has now been converted into a prestige housing complex.

This photograph of the 15th-century Market Cross shows just how far the original concept of a market town has moved in the 20th century.

This photograph shows the view north-westwards up Church Street from beside the Old Monmouth Hotel, with the churchyard railings on the right.

The church of St John the Baptist stands virtually on the other side of Red Lion Square from All Saints'.

Following the devastating fire of 1857, a room was rented in the Ship Inn for Sunday worship until a new church could be built.

Records of the existence of this street go back at least to the 15th century and it is known to have been used by travellers and pilgrims on their way to the Abbey.

Haigh Hall was designed by the twenty-fourth Earl of Crawford for himself and built at a cost of £100,000 between c1832 and 1840.

It is one of the biggest in the country with over 200 volumes, the oldest dating back to 1343.

Beeston was one of a series of fortresses built by Rannulf de Blundeville, Earl of Chester and Lincoln.

Runcorn is now the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, but there was a time when it continued down a massive flight of locks to connect with the Mersey and the Ship Canal.

Another view of the Bowness Ferry shows a full coach-and-four just about to set out from the Bowness side of the lake, with the coachman at the front steadying the nervous horses.