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Mount Terrace (left) was the first row of houses to be built next to the Mount. Like London Street, Bold Street was envisaged as a tree-lined boulevard; in later years the trees had to be pollarded.

We go north-east to Willesden, an area mostly developed by the end of the 19th century with lower-class terrace housing which swamped the hamlets that made up the parish.

The St Mary's we see here was only a few years old, and is possibly the sixth church on the site. The 1898 version was completely destroyed in a wartime air raid, along with much of the town centre.

This church may have the oldest foundations of any in Lancashire, dating from Saxon times. Norman traces remain in the rounded doorway (right) with its massive oak door.

Its replacement was this column, 60 feet high and bearing the following inscription: 'This column was erected by the trustees of the Liverpool Docks, by the permission of John Shaw Leigh, Esq,

Opened throughout in 1772, the Staffs & Worcestershire Canal was designed by James Brindley as part of a scheme to allow traffic to operate between the Thames,Trent, Severn and Mersey.

York Street, on the right to the other side of the Midland Bank, was cut through only at the end of the 19th century to improve traffic flow to Richmond; traffic previously had to funnel

He had married the daughter and heir to Sir William Chapple of Wonersh. The Pepperpot, on the right, is made of beams and tiles from Wonersh Park mansion.

Lloyds Bank used to operate from the house on the extreme right. These days it is a private house once more. Next door is the Catholic church of St Peter and St Paul.

It was the era of the railways that killed it off and for years it was abandoned and completely derelict.

The two gables on the left are part of a 15th-century house called The Chantry. The rest of the structure is Salters Hall, the highest quality timber-framed building in Sudbury.

Inside is the Oval Hall, where up to 2,800 people can be seated for concerts.The front of the hall still bears the scars of the night during World War Two when a bomb landed to the side of the War

Bottomley did not pay his bills on time, and sometimes not at all, but he played the role of a genial squire with gusto; besides building estate cottages, he also bred race horses.

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

Back to the west of Blindley Heath the route reaches Outwood, a hamlet on the edge of heath and woodland, some of it owned by the National Trust.

Looking North The Swindon and North Wilts Technical Institute building (now known as the College) is on the left.

The old terrace of shops to the left include J N Read & Son, butchers.

A church has been on this central site from AD 937. All Saints' parish church was restored in 1873 by Sir Gilbert Scott (he was also responsible for Doncaster's St George's church).

As with Inveraray Castle, the redevelopment meant the removal of the old village, which in this case had grown up round the Augustinian monastery destroyed in 1599.

St Barnabas Church was built in the 1880s to the designs of Carpenter and Ingelow.

Albion Road, the most easterly of the Victorian developments south of the railway, has its back garden fences along the parish boundary with Carshalton.

Much more pedestrian in style is St Luke's, at the junction of St Luke's Road and Norfolk Road to the north of the town centre, built to serve the new suburb beyond what became Kidwell's Park.

This is an interesting view of All Saints' Church at the south end of the Green.

Ribbon development of local stone houses under thatched and slated roofs, while not overheating the blood, do present a well-ordered scene; their dates range from the pre-17th century to modern, close