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The medieval church, with its plain west tower and stumpy shingled broach spire, was extensively restored, not entirely successfully, in the 1850s by William Slater for the dynamic Reverend Arthur Eden

West of the village centre is Wadhurst Castle.

This view is taken further down West Street, with the churchyard on the left and the boundary walls of the Victorian Baptist Church on the right.

On the west bank of the Taw, this view shows the old road (left), and new one (right).

To the west of Farley Heath and Blackheath, the hamlet of Blackheath grew up in Victorian times.

With their barrack buildings in the background, and eight tents pitched alongside the parade ground, the officers and men of the Royal West Surrey regiment march off parade.

In the foreground is the railway, and further back stands the church of St Mary the Virgin.

Further west along the A30, Chard is a market town laid out in 1234 by Bishop Jocelyn of Wells.

The George Brewery was established in 1702, and was owned and run by the George family from 1788 until 1961 when it was bought by Courage.

Dating mainly from the 13th century, it features an impressive square west tower, an aisled nave, transepts and chancel.

Inside there are monuments to Sir William Gilstrap, a pottery manufacturer, of Fornham Park (who died in 1896) and Henry Claughton, an HMI in West Suffolk for 38 years (he died in 1924)

In this view we are looking north-west up London Road towards the Queens Head in the distance, beyond the junction with East Street.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries a large number of country houses were built in the castellated style.

Looking north-west past the village cross, we see the church with its curiously plain tower and mean spire.

Westport was separated from Malmesbury as it was situated outside the west gate to the town, and it was linked to the town by Abbey Row.

Without through traffic, this thousand-year-old village retains its rural traditions and sense of history.

This view depicts the bustle in West Steet, with children and cycles, and a flock of sheep being driven uphill (left of centre).

Reaching Spalding we are in the heart of the bulb-growing country; the surrounding countryside is a glorious carpet of daffodils, tulips and other flowers at different times of the year.

The tiny hamlet of Leigh lies on the east bank of the River Severn, perched on land just high enough to raise it from the floodplain, a few miles north-west of Cheltenham.

Further west, on the Stony Stratford to Northampton road, is another Yardley.

Buckinghamshire's County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s.

Here we have a good view of the area that is to the west of Market Square.

Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.

Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.