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The County Lunatic Asylum was first built a little to the west of the town in 1820 to the design of the Plymouth architect John Foulstone.

Here we see the river bank of the Ribble just west of the main railway bridge at the end of South Meadows.

The main body of the church dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries, and was here in 1180.

Much of the church dates from the 14th century, but the old west tower fell down and was rebuilt in 1850; further restoration followed.

These gates were known as ports and were called the Stable Green Port (north), the Gallowgate Port (east), Brig Port (south) and Trongate Port (west).

A great many gravestones and stone crosses occupy the churchyard at North Stoneham.

It was once the seat of the powerful Douglas family, wardens of the Border Marches and lords of Galloway.

We end this chapter in St Peter Street, which originally led to the old wooden bridge replaced by the present one further west.

At the junction of Gold Street and Bridge Street, with The Drapery to the right, this view looks west from the end of Mercers Row.

There is no disputing the claim that the Minster is one of Europe's most beautiful and finest churches.

The interior has again been drastically re-ordered, including the construction of a stage at the west end from which the fine Norman font emerges incongruously.

Before the Second World War this was regarded as the most remote village in the county, with its cottages and houses straggling along the western side of its long green.

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.

The cottage stood on the west side of the northern end of Elstow High Street, but was demolished in the 1960s.

This view, from the end of a path leading past the Brownlow Arms to the west bank of the Trent, looks across the tidal river from Nottinghamshire to South Clifton in Lincolnshire.

Not visible in this photograph, but well worth walking to see at the west end of the street, is St Stephen's church, a large and handsome building which was founded before the Norman Conquest.

Situated at the west of end of St Peter's Street, this fine Regency terrace was constructed between 1827 and 1831 on the site of the bowling green to provide houses for 20 middle-class families.

We are looking west towards the cross-roads in the part of Upton known as The Village.

The village, which in parochial terms was originally bracketed together with Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt, which share the mother church of St Wilfred, lies some eight miles to the south

Wartling is another parish like Herstmonceux, with its parish church and part of the village over a mile south of the main road and on the edge of the Pevensey Levels.

The largest seaside town in West Sussex, Worthing began to grow as a fashionable resort towards the end of the 18th century.

The church of St Mary and St Hugh was badly damaged by fire in 1708, which burnt down the spire and melted the bells.

The village of West Lulworth is seen looking north- westwards from the slopes of Hambury Tout.

As a break from a succession of market towns, the route heads north-west to Buckland St Mary, situated just north of the A303 and at the east end of the well-wooded Blackdown Hills.