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This old dome-shaped weather-beaten pump dates back to medieval times, and is situated at an important junction in the middle of this historic town.

The railway was a working narrow gauge route running passengers up to the Corris quarries and bringing slate back.

The Newmarket connection with racing dates back to the time of Charles II, although the sport's main boost came during the reign of Victoria, promoted by her son, the Prince of Wales.

An obliging servant stepped into the water offering to piggy-back the king across - hence Kingsbridge.

The wall on the left now has two boards bearing the names of all the Mayors of Totnes back to 1359.

Cadhay Bridge dates back to the time of Queen Elizabeth I.

Melcombe Bingham's manor house dates back to the time of the Plantagenet kings, though much of the present building is Tudor.

This view was taken from the iron bridge, and shows the backs of various High Street and Moulsham Street properties. Some of them had their own landing stages.

People from Exeter used the sea and sands, the only good bathing beach in the east, back in the early seventeenth century.

Now firmly back in the ironstone hills, we reach Newnham, two miles south of Daventry. The village is set on the hilly north side of the young River Nene. Little has changed.

In walking country, the village, although undistinguished, is associated by local people with Newton Linford, Bradgate Park and Beacon Hill, or just as being on the back route from Leicester to Shepshed

Thurlestone takes its name from a holed, or thirled, rock just out at sea in Bigbury Bay, which was mentioned in a Saxon charter way back in 845.

Laleham's charming parish church has a tower dating back to 1732; it has been altered somewhat since this photograph was taken.

In bygone times the hotel had a back yard in which strolling minstrels and poets would entertain.

The van on the left was ahead of its time by using the back door for the slogan: 'If it's tractors ask Reginald Tildesley'. In the background is the turreted tower of St Mary's parish church.

We can see the sign of the Barley Mow, which is set back from the street.

Some farm cottages date back to 1659 in this pretty village just east of Skipton.

Slough dates back to the 12th century, when it was a hamlet on the London to Bath road. The settlement later spread to the neighbouring parish of Stoke Poges.

Boroughbridge, to the southeast of Ripon, dates back to Norman times, when a bridge was constructed over the Ure. It was then known as Burgbridge, the borough on the bridge.

Powers were sought in Parliament to establish new residential areas, and many of the squares and avenues of modern- day Cheltenham date back to that period.

In the centre of the picture stands the forge, which is believed to date back over 670 years, although it is thought that horses and ponies were shod here long before that.

A motor boat waits for passengers, and to recover skiffs abandoned by their occupants when it was time to bring them back. A queue has formed waiting to enter the swimming pool.

The long, galleried Granary possibly dates back to the reign of Charles II, and is now part of the Museum.

There is a great deal of attractive Georgian architecture, and a church dating back to the 12th century, with a beautifully decorated 15th-century font and handsome Carolean pulpit and reading desk