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The cathedral looks massive, but is in fact relatively small; the central and two western towers are of no great height. The original church built by St Wilfred was destroyed in 950 AD.

Much of it is in Perpendicular style (although Norman features remain), and there are later additions. It stands in a raised walled churchyard with its four entrances at the compass points.

The picturesque growth of trees and ivy which has been allowed to flourish unchecked took its toll on the brick structure, and the church, probably designed by Nicholas Stone and consecrated by Archbishop

This shows pre-war motoring at its peak, moving both ways up and down West Street, which was the A35 main road.

Also known as St Sampson's, Golant on the west bank of the Fowey was cut off from the main estuary, save for a bridge, by the embankment of the Lostwithiel to Fowey railway in 1869.

Billy Banks Wood, prominent in views from Castle Walk, is ancient 'hanging' woodland clinging to limestone rock on the south bank of the River Swale just west of Richmond Castle.

Ogmore lies two miles to the south-west of Bridgend.

This thatched cottage with its little garden stood in Pondhu Road, in the valley bottom to the south west of the town centre.

When one looks at this inviting cavern, it is no wonder that after the copper mining itself finished West Mine became a magnet for explorers despite, or perhaps because of, the dangers of going underground

Moving south to the Cuckmere River valley, our tour reaches Upper Dicker, about two and a half miles west of Hailsham.

Robert FitzHamon chose to build his castle within the ruins of the old Roman fortress, raising a motte in the north-west corner.

Once Ludford Parva to the west and Ludford Magna to the east, the settlements are now merged. The post office cum garage is now a house named, unsurprisingly, The Old Post Office.

The Buttertubs Pass leads dramatically down to this village, which is 9 miles west of Muker. It was hit by a natural disaster in 1898, the result of a cloud burst.

Dogs are at play in this photograph of a peaceful West Sussex village.

This view looks east along West Banks, with its numerous small bridges, to the mainly late Victorian artisan cottages (some are dated 1901).

Lacock is a village that has been almost entirely preserved and protected from the ravages of modern development and commercial life.

It is a quiet morning in this pleasant small town, situated on a gentle hill a few miles west of Sevenoaks.

Lying just to the north of Chilham is this small and curiously named hamlet where, until the beginning of the 20th century, an annual race was staged between two village youths and two maidens for a

After the First World War, there were plans to divide Westley Heights into 231 small plots of land and offer them for development.

Fishbourne in West Sussex is by far the most impressive Roman building in Britain, and is rightly called a palace.

Now merged with Dorking, North Holmwood is one of three small villages along the west side of the large and mostly wooded Holmwood Common - the other two villages are Mid Holmwood and South

This was among the 'horror pictures' used by the land agent John Cripwell in order to encourage Lord Antrim and the council of the National Trust to buy two thousand of acres from Lyme Regis to

Our second tour starts three miles west of Amersham in the delightful village of Little Missenden which grew up along the south bank of the River Misbourne and separated from Amersham by the parkland

This last chapter follows on geographically from where the fourth chapter finished, at Burgh le Marsh four miles west of Skegness.