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This is a village of two halves, each bisected by fast-running streams rushing towards the sea. Sandsend was once a centre for alum mining, and remains can still be observed along the coast.

Swain Street runs south from the harbour; it is narrow and mixed architecturally, as can be seen in this Edwardian view.

That much-maligned but vital facility of the motorway network, the service station, was an early landmark.

The Grand Western Canal was a 19th-century dream, planned to run from Taunton to the river Exe near Exeter.

Nine Mile Ride runs east to west from south Easthampstead to south of the Arborfield Garrison, originally cutting through Windsor Forest; it is now developed with long lines of bungalows.

This view, showing the centre of Ewell village, was taken looking north towards the Horse Pond and Spring Corner, and includes several splendid examples of the motor vehicles of the period.

Though it passes through an industrial landscape, this canal has many quiet rural stretches where the narrow boats chug along under a dense canopy of green.

Kits Coty House, a prehistoric burial monument, is sited on a crest of the North Downs a mile or two to the north of Aylesford village.

Born in Cambridge in 1882, Sir John Berry 'Jack' Hobbs was undoubtedly the world's greatest cricket batsman of his time.

Barnoldswick is pronounced 'Barlick' by the locals.This is another village that has moved with boundary changes.

Epsom is famous for two things: Epsom Salts, and the two great classic flat races run on the Downs south of the town, the Derby and the Oaks, both inaugurated in the late 18th century.

Here we see a peaceful open carriage ride on a hot Edwardian summer's day; the lady, protected by an umbrella, passes the 1850s east lodge to Offington House.

Close to the road, the solid but impressive ashlar tower dominates the immediate street scene with its substantial angled buttresses and crocketted finials; these are not 15th-century, but were added

From Newstead Abbey the route heads four miles south to Hucknall, which also has Byronic associations: in this church Byron was buried in the family vault after his body had been brought home from Greece

The next views are of the residential roads laid out to the east of Brighton Road.

The name of this lane, which runs north from the junction of High Street and Lewes Road, refers to Sackville College.

Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.

This canal was constructed in 1796; it runs for nearly forty miles through northern Hampshire.

Of interest here is the single-hold steam coaster, one of hundreds of such vessels in the 90ft to 140ft range, which were capable of carrying up to about 300 tons of cargo into the smallest of harbours

The white-painted single-storey building in the middle of the row of shops originally had a thatched roof and was Irby's only shop, doubling also as the village post office.

At first it was suggested that the railway station should be built adjacent to St Martin's Church in 'The Lordship' (see picture 53332A on pages 48-49), now known as Meadow Bank Recreation Ground

This town is often over-run by pilgrims and tourists, but the local inhabitants still require basic essentials, even coal (left) and petrol for their vehicles (right).

This one, with the beck running through it, was built up in the 19th century to house workers at the nearby mill, where for a hundred years John Wilford & Sons produced linen, flax and wool.

It all looks neater now, and the trees have been thinned. Nothing new architecturally has been added.