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This is the B3165, heading southwards to Lyme Regis, on the slope above Springhead.

At the end is the Hind's Head Hotel. The Ringers on the right is now the Fat Duck Restaurant. The timber-framed cottages have long gone.

The Duke's Head Inn (right), which would appear to date back to the 16th or 17th century from its quaint interior, is still here at the side of what is now a modern dual carriageway.

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.

Heading towards Boston, we reach Donington on the Grantham to Boston road, an attractive market town, once the centre of a flax and hemp trade with three hemp fairs a year.

This spacious town lies at the head of Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid), the largest natural lake in Wales, with a narrow-gauge railway running along its south-eastern shore.

For a fare of 6d each way, the DSET offered passengers an exciting cliff-edge ride between Port Soderick and Douglas Head.

Heading towards Boston, we reach Donington on the Grantham to Boston road, an attractive market town, once the centre of a flax and hemp trade with three hemp fairs a year.

All this came to an end with a disastrous fire, and the site is now a pub garden to the Nag's Head with a children's playground.

The brick footpath heads towards the porch which, with the south aisle, was added in 1870 to designs by H E Rumble.

Back on the A24 London to Worthing Road, and north of Capel, is Beare Green with the Duke's Head pub.

Stevens's Boatyard on the east end of Nag's Head Island also incorporated the landing stage for the Crown and Thistle Hotel in Bridge Street, some hundred yards away from the river.

The railway, which had been pushed into a tunnel to get round White Head, had also trapped the village against the sea.

Baldock Street leads northwards out of Ware towards Thundridge. The higgledy-piggledy row of pubs, shops and dwellings has hardly changed over the years.

Known as New Street since the 15th century, the oldest building extant in 1896 was probably No 29, a silversmith and jewellers, that had a rainwater head dated 1687.

Heading south-east through winding country lanes, our short tour reaches Ampthill.

Outside Holroyd's shop and post office is a sign warning of a low bridge ahead. Opposite this leafy corner was the vicarage, now a private house.

The 18th-century King's Head Hotel survives, and so do the shops to the right, a 1930s parade, and a few shops beyond the hotel, but there has been much injudicious rebuilding from the 1960s onwards

Although there have been several references to a light that was exhibited from Beachy Head in around 1670, the records state that this was not for maritime purposes but as a fire beacon which would

It was built from a bequest of 1714 and completed in 1720; the rainwater heads are dated 1719. The stone doorcase with its broken pediment was carved in 1718.

Every one of the well-dressed children wears a hat: only the rather scruffy boy to the left is bare headed.

Until 1864, Clacton had simply been a row of cliffs. It was Peter Bruff, a railway engineer, who bought the land and started to develop a resort here.

This photograph is dominated by a fine example of a stag-head oak, a normal condition, not a dying tree.

Known as New Street since the 15th century, the oldest building extant in 1896 was probably No 29, a silversmith and jewellers, that had a rainwater head dated 1687.