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Nobody knows for sure why this delightful corner of the Forest is called Queen's Bower. The origins of the name are lost in the mists of antiquity.

Pitsea lies to the north of Bowers Marshes.

Walter Bowers is driving the carrier's cart.

Queen Margaret's Bower is where her majesty kept vigil while James IV fought at Flodden.

Cuckfield Park was built by Henry Bower, a wealthy ironmaster, who died in 1588 and was buried in Holy Trinity church. The house is not open to the public.

Chatsworth is then reached by way of Queen Mary's Bower.

Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford. The pub seen here—the Bull—is displaying a 'Sundays: No Coaches' sign.

Walter Bowers is driving the carrier's cart.

There is still a stocks and whipping post at Havering-atte-Bower, and there has been since at least the 17th century, when they were destroyed by a mob.

When this photograph was taken, Bower House was the home of the Ford Marketing Institute.

The barns of Finlow Bower farm, so called after Richard Finlow, a tenant in the 18th century, can be seen on the right.

'I must admit I have often cast lustful eyes on Bowers Gifford's acres which I can see from my office window', said General Manager Charles Boniface.

This castle, since demolished, sits on Queen Eleanor's Bower. Legend says that she watched her husband win the Battle of Shrewsbury from here in 1403. Henry IV won that battle.

Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford. The pub seen here—the Bull—is displaying a 'Sundays: No Coaches' sign.

This pub on the road to Havering-atte-Bower has retained much of its shape, although it is now brightly painted.

The Bower House is a timber-framed hall house with a kingpost roof.The Tiger public house was once Church House—behind the brick façade it has a king post roof and a 15th-century hall.

The Bower House on the left is quintessentially a Sussex- style house with its attractive tile-hung upper elevation and small dormer windows in the roof space.

'I must admit I have often cast lustful eyes on Bowers Gifford's acres which I can see from my office window', said General Manager Charles Boniface.

The Bower House is a timber-framed hall house with a kingpost roof. The Tiger public house was once Church House - behind the brick façade it has a king post roof and a 15th-century hall.

Gifford House, used as its offices by the BDC, was built in 1924 for the rector of Bowers Gifford, who used it as a college for coaching students for the universities.

Mr Howard died in March 1961, and is buried in the family's enclosure at St Margaret's Church, Bowers Gifford.

One local gardener, a certain Mr Blower, was renowned for his ability to drink sixteen pints of the local ale in a day.

The old industrial town of Stourbridge owes some of its fortunes to the European glass- blowers who settled here in Elizabethan times, founding an industry which has endured.

Over 12,000 pieces of worked flints including arrow-heads, scrapers, saws, borers and hammers were discovered here, indicating the existence of a New Stone Age settlement in the area.