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Mostly rebuilt by Thomas Lumby in the 1770s in a fairly correct Gothic, the church has a more cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick west tower and spire.

The Royal Victoria Pavilion, which stands close to the sands below the East Cliff, opened in 1904, and is pictured here when it was nearly new.

The black and white marks on the kerbstones indicate the junction. This is a small handsome town on the River Test with Georgian buildings that are rendered or red brick.

The road leads all the way round the shore here, and today there is a car park behind the third building.

Situated six miles west of Darlington, Piercebridge is unusual in that the village was built within the ramparts of a Roman fort that once guarded the bridge over the Tees carrying the road between York

Mostly rebuilt by Thomas Lumby in the 1770s in a fairly correct Gothic, the church has a more cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick west tower and spire.

Midhurst is a town of contrasts, with an early medieval core around the church, west of the Norman castle earthworks on St Anne's Hill, and the wide North Street, a later medieval planned market place.

A mile south-west we come to Athelney, a name redolent of Anglo-Saxon history.

On the west side, between the figures and the church tower, is the establishment of draper and milliner Ernest Benjamin Hobbs.

This is how we lived forty years ago: a quiet road, milk delivery by pony and trap to the pub, schoolchildren waiting for a bus - all bathed in sunshine.

A market place since at least 1235, the west side shown here survives much better than the north side.

On their way to Aysgarth, carriages would pass through West Witton.

Between the 1880s and the early 1920s, workers flocked from all over the south-west to find work in Abertillery's coal mines.

The County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s by the architects Thomas Wyatt and David Brandon.

This photograph looks from the west towards St Austell in its rural setting.

The local sandstone is not that durable, and St Stephen's has needed more than one restoration in the course of its relatively short life.

Designed by Henry Edward Kendall in 1839, and situated to the west of Cockfosters Underground station, this stock brick church was financed by the Bevan family who owned Trent Park, and whose origins were

This view, looking west, shows E J Pipe's general store smothered in advertisements (left). This is now the Butley Oysterage, and the bay window has been removed.

The picturesque village is situated on a minor east-west road, rising up from the reservoir past Sir James Pennethorne's hall, which took some twenty years to complete, the medieval parish church and

Off West Street, behind Sparnham House, was the site of one of Ashburton's two umber mines - the only ones in the country.

The Reach dates from the 13th century and used to extend further into the town.

Medway, and is another contender for the 'most attractive village in Kent' title. Certainly it seems very well planned around its spacious central green with its mature chestnut trees.

Chapter Three is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

In between the dramatic hills of Great and Little Whernside, Coverham lies in a hollow 2 miles west of Middleham.