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The celebrated village of Cookham, a mile or so south of Bourne End, is seen here from the boatyard on the Buckinghamshire bank, although curiously until 1992 a strip of about 30 feet along

Wesley's Cottage, on the north side of the High Street to the west of the Town Hall, where the founding preacher of Methodism stayed on the night of 12-13 October 1774.

The thatched roofs of Ducks Bottom (left), the old post office (centre) and Vine Cottage (right) nestle in the heart of pastoral Eype hamlet in the coastal valley west of Bridport.

At the southern end of the High Street the road branched to the east into Saffron Lane, later known as Queen Street.

18th-century cottages in Main Street at West Lulworth, looking westwards from the wide triangle of highway and grass beside the Castle Inn.

West of the crossroads, Church Street runs north from Frilford Road, behind the camera, to the church, glimpsed to the left of the big tree at the far end.

Visitors to the tourist attraction of Stockbridge enter downhill at either end of the High Street. Almost a mile long, it runs east-west, with narrow ribbons of houses on either side.

Donkey Lane and Dormouse Cottage (right) can be seen here in the northern end of the High Street (centre) which bends to the west beside Pound House (centre) to become Barr Lane as it carries

Donkey Lane and Dormouse Cottage (right) can be seen here in the northern end of the High Street (centre) which bends to the west beside Pound House (centre) to become Barr Lane as

In 1494, Henry VII decided to adapt the chapel of Henry II and Edward II as his tomb-house. Master mason Henry Janyns and the original designer William Vertue took on the work in 1478 and 1484.

The battlemented single-storey structure immediately in front of the west portal is the Galilee Chapel, which dates from 1175.

In photograph 78293, we have a view from the west end looking up the nave. The huge pillars with small capitals form the nave arcades; they have delicate decoration in the spandrels.

The 17th-century Angel Inn stands at the east end of Middle Street and the start of Main Street, and is one of a number of interesting buildings around the area.

This shows the main public open space in the city, the Market Square: for centuries it has been the centre of the city's business and social life, and is surrounded by many fine buildings.

At the east end of the village, the village green has the war memorial at its centre.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

This is all that remains of the magnificent west front of the Abbey, now reduced in height and stripped of its facing stone.

Here we are looking west along Est Street, to the Town Hall and Market Place.

This is East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (far right), looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker.

Victorian visitors came to look at old rural England - so different to their world in the overcrowded working cities of the West Riding.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

This route heads for the beautiful Mendip Hills, the carboniferous limestone ridge that separates the Avon valley and Bath and Bristol from the rest of Somerset.

The top had been used for many years as the church's high altar, and indeed the original base still resides in the chancel floor, just in front of the altar step.

The village green, the King's Head and the parish church lie at the heart of present-day Lanchester.