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Outside the row of terraced cottages at Breachwood Green near Hitchin stands a pristine Ford 100E model. In front of one of these houses stood the community's well.

On 24 June 1827, William Cobbett wrote in his 'Rural Rides': 'Set out at four this morning for Redbourn. The trees ... are very fine: oak, ashes and beeches; some of the finest of each sort.

Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

To the right of the trees is Hender's Tannery, well known for the quality of its hides, and working until 1963. The building was demolished in 1984.

Newport's most famous landmark, the transporter bridge (or aerial ferry), was opened in 1906.

A classic view of the Stamford skyline from the water meadows. From left to right, the four churches are All Saints', St John's, St Michael's and St Mary's.

Many of the delightful houses in this photograph of the north side of St Paul's Street originated in the 13th century, but their fronts were rebuilt later.

Here we see a post mill with an open trestle in its last stage of dereliction. The picture clearly shows the structural framing of a post mill with its trestle.

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

Set in remote and well-wooded rolling countryside west of and utterly remote from Crawley, Rusper has a gently curving main street with many good houses and cottages.

Here we are looking from the 'island' back to the outer ward of the castle, with the access lane down the valley on the left. The building is now a café.

All around are the ruins of engine houses and copper mines. The Celtic St Cleer's well is situated in a somewhat suburban part of the village, surrounded by bungalows.

Work on the original castle began in 1072; it was the official residence of the bishops of Durham.

Henry VIII was desperate for his son Edward to be married to the infant Mary, daughter of Mary of Guise.

Following the death of Sir Robert Gordon in 1847, his brother the Earl of Aberdeen suggested that Victoria and Albert might like to take over the lease on Balmoral. There was a problem.

Belsay, to the north west of Newcastle, is a 14th-century Northumbrian three-storey tower with a large room on each floor; there are other rooms off the projections.

Again we are looking west from the central part of East Street with the illuminated sign carrying the initials of the Cyclists` Touring Club (far left) having dropped its `Wines and Spirits

Looking west past the Memorial Gardens, the white building on the far hill, just to the left of the church tower, is Shardeloes, the Georgian mansion of the lords of the manor.

The old centre of Chalfont St Peter has suffered greatly, by-passed too closely and swamped by housing estates, the houses steadily increasing in size before merging with the affluent 'Metroland

Viewed from the Corn Exchange on Market Hill, Luton's main street on a summer's day just before the turn of the 19th century gives little indication of the importance of this thoroughfare.

South-east of East Hoathly lies the large scattered parish of Chiddingly, a typical rolling Wealden-edge village composed of scattered hamlets, farmsteads and woodland.

He was born in Wotton House in 1620 and inherited it later in the century; he died in 1706 and was buried in the fine parish church, which is isolated in the fields north of the A25.

The Abbey Brewery, which occupied many of the buildings in the left-hand distance, closed in 1895, and the watermill became Langford's Coal and Corn Merchants.

During the floods of 1947, the River Ouse rose over the gardens of the twelve houses in River Terrace and drenched the ground floors.