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Further west, the High Street meets Abingdon Road (right) and Steventon Road (left) in a small green.

As well as being in the West Riding, Saddleworth was also in the wapentake of Agbrigg. Wapentake literally means 'show of weapons', and was the old Danish way of voting.

Lord Rodney, who died in 1792, is particularly remembered for his victory at the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies, which led to peace terms with the French (for a time!).

Stodman Street leads out of the south-west corner of the Market Place. Its most famous building is the Governor's House, a 16th-century timber-framed house with three storeys of coved jetties.

West of the Queen Street junction the London-Bath A4 was remarkably narrow, but is now pedestrianised and by-passed. This view looks east.

Note the Beach Cafe (left) and the groynes on Charmouth beach; we are looking eastwards to Cain's Folly (centre) and Golden Cap (right). Offshore are the Mouth Rocks.

Monk's Buildings 1894 From Angmering we head north across the Downs to Storrington, now a large village that started its expansion in late Victorian and Edwardian times.

This narrow gateway, constructed of cobbled flint and brickwork, was built in the 13th century to defend the northern entrance of this well-preserved town, which was also fortified by earthworks connected

Woodham Lane, between New Haw and Woodham, is semi-detached country served by two railway stations: Byfleet and New Haw, and West Byfleet.

Batchworth Lake is the easternmost of a chain of four lakes west of the town and sandwiched between the Grand Union Canal and the River Colne.

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.

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 photograph shows a very different picture from today's carefully mown and tended lawns.

Mansfield lies some 14 miles north of Nottingham and to the west of Sherwood Forest.

The church and a cluster of old houses are at the top of the hill, and more old buildings are on the river bank, east and west of the Bognor Road river bridge.

We can see the porch attached to the west tower, and also the good proportions of the building. Inside, the wide three-bay nave is tall and light with thin piers.

This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

In the late 15th century the Cheynes built the first part of the house, the hall, tower and the rest of the west range in the distance, an amorphous shape in brick under all the ivy, but

We are west of Addlestone. Here the A320 Guildford Road meets the A319 Chobham Road and the B3121, Murray Road, from Addlestone at what is now a large roundabout.

The Cathedral 1888 A springtime photograph of the massive and imposing cathedral, the first in Britain and the seat of the Primate of All England, as well as one of Europe's most celebrated places

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

The west tower was built in the 15th century as an addition to the 13th-century church. In the 16th-century nave roof there are six carved figures.

On the west coast of England, the old fishing communities tended to be housed in cottages with thatched roofs.

Redevelopment in the 1970s has swept away many of the buildings on the west side of Crib Street.