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The new seaside resort was mostly laid out south of the old town on flatter land between the Lower Town, largely destroyed by fire in 1791, and the sea.

A lane leads south-west from the green by the former post office to St Paul's Church and Culham Manor.

Back inthe Chess Valley we reach Latimer, a very pretty village with a triangular green and, uphill to the west, Latimer House.

This small loch is sandwiched between Loch Katrine and Loch Vennachar, seven miles west of Callendar.

In 1879 the only development along Vann Road was two chapels: an Ebenezer Chapel built in 1852 just beyond the slate-hung Hazel Cottage, on the right, and a Methodist one, whose roof slope and gable

The town walls date from the 13th century, and Tenby's tight, sheltered harbour and truly golden beach wears a crown of coloured Georgian buildings.

Newark grew up where the Roman road from Axminster to Lincoln met the medieval Great North Road's predecessor and crossed the River Trent.

Again we are looking west from the central part of East Street with the illuminated sign carrying the initials of the Cyclists` Touring Club (far left) having dropped its `Wines and Spirits` in

The Village c1955 Pevsner likened Hamble to a West Country fishing village, and he was right to make the comparison.

Kingsbury Underground Station is situated some distance to the north-west of the original village centre, and within a range of not unattractive shops, seen on the right, with their pitched dormered and

In the latter half of the 18th century the east bank of the River Usk had been developed, and a new structure was needed to link it with the west bank.

Again we are looking west from the central part of East Street with the illuminated sign carrying the initials of the Cyclists` Touring Club (far left) having dropped its `Wines and Spirits

Looking west past the Memorial Gardens, the white building on the far hill, just to the left of the church tower, is Shardeloes, the Georgian mansion of the lords of the manor.

Until the 1960s there were two boat building and hiring businesses occupying the west part of the island.

This is an excellent 15th- century timber-framed house, and this view shows its rear wings.

In the 1190s Rye joined the Cinque Ports federation, a group of Kent and Sussex ports that provided ships for the King's navy in return for enormous privileges.

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Diveting eastwards up Mill Street, our tour reaches St Cuthbert's Church, which served the east part of the town and was possibly of Anglo-Saxon origin.

This is a brash and cheerily post-modern early 1990s reworking of a crudely brutalist 1960s concrete shopping precinct that had swept away much of the west side of the Market Square.

The parish of Overton lies five miles south-west of Lancaster on the road to Sunderland Point.

South-west of Oxted, and on the course of a Roman Road across the Weald, the route turns left at Blindley Heath, a hamlet on former heathland in the south of Godstone parish.

There is a substantial amount of Victorian development seen in this view of the town from the west, looking across Brooklands Park and the new cemetery on Queens Road with its chapel.

Now over a century old, the camp is set in about 15 acres of woodland on the edge of Barnston village; as a registered charity its aim is to provide accommodation and outdoor activities for individuals

Set in remote and well-wooded rolling countryside west of and utterly remote from Crawley, Rusper has a gently curving main street with many good houses and cottages.