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Viewed from North Load Street, Glastonbury's Market Cross was built in 1846 on the site of a medieval covered cross and fountain.

In this view we are looking towards the level crossing and Dunraven Terrace. The signals and level crossing gates were operated from the signal box.

The gate in the wall opposite the church gate was not there in the 1927 photograph. The school chapel was designed by Mr G E S Streatfield and built by Messrs Bowman of Stamford.

The Beaumond Cross at the end of Carter Gate on the southern approach to the town is thought to date from the 14th or 15th centuries, and might be a wayside praying cross.

The level crossing gates are shut in anticipation of a train. The Woolmington Hotel is seen, built in the 1860s for Mr Woolmington, owner of the Cheap Street Brewery.

In the 1780s the roads through Cark were minor tracks, and stepping stones were used to cross the beck. There are a number of bridges serving mill-workers' houses.

We can see the school chapel beyond the open gates to the left of the Butter Cross. This area, including the row of cottages, was known as Chapel Close.

The old market cross still stands by the gate to the parish church of St Alkelda at Giggleswick, in the heart of Craven limestone country.

London Road, the old A1 before the town was by-passed, becomes Lombard Street before turning right into Castle Gate with its many former coaching inns; it then turns left beyond the castle

Herongate, in the parish of East Horndon, supposedly takes its name from a gate crossing the road near The Boar's Head.

The level crossing gates (right) have now been replaced with automatic rising barriers, and the signal box has been demolished.

The names of two pubs, The Crossing Gate and The Whistle Stop, recall those days. By 1871 the parish had a population of almost 1,000.

Cross the humped bridge over the river from Coltishall, and the village becomes Horstead.

Glasgow was never a walled town, but it had four gates at the points of the compass to control traffic.

Glasgow was never a walled town, but it had four gates at the points of the compass to control traffic.

Crossing Mary Street from the southern end of the High Street brings the explorer of Taunton to Vivary Park.

The ferry originated for the use of monks from the priory, to cross to their farmland on the west bank.

Each has two downstairs rooms divided by a cross passage. Corner Cottage, jutting from the end, is a century older, and has now been refurbished.

This church is worth a visit and the east window by Morris and Co, as late as 1912, should not be missed. The nave and aisles date from about 1210 with a later square-topped tower.

One local resident of two centuries ago was Philip Salkeld, who won the Victoria Cross at Delhi in 1857.

Church Farm (right) of c1480 is a hall house with cross wings. The parlour wing is double jettied, with the arms of the de Ufford family, Earls of Suffolk, under the oriel window.

In 1942 Lieutenant-Commander Stephen Beattie, the son of the Rector of Madley, was awarded the Victoria Cross after his ship rammed the dock gates at St Nazaire.

The twin-archwayed late 15th-century gatehouse is Canon Gate, which leads into the Cathedral precincts.

The river is crossed on a toll bridge; this view shows the toll gate and cottage, the former now replaced by a booth and barrier ten yards beyond.