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This view reveals Boston's elegant and urbane character. Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.

Beyond the Bay Private Hotel and Madeira Cottages (left centre) are Hardown Hill, Stonebarrow Hill (centre) and Golden Cap (right). Seaward are a series of ledges.

It is difficult to realise that this was once the main Roman road from London to Godmanchester and on to York.

Horncastle is one of the county's most ancient towns. There are still remains of its Roman walling which enclosed about seven acres.

This view looks south down the High Street from near High Bridge. The 11th-century tower of St Mary le Wigford church peers out amid the later commercial architecture.

High Street North is a relatively undistinguished and typical London suburban shopping street: the exuberance of the Town Hall complex is forgotten.

It is sad that with the development of a large shopping centre in Telford town centre, Oakengates no longer attracts shoppers as it once did - even the branch of Woolworth we see here has

At the time of this photograph, Hoskins, a family brewery in Beaumanor Road, Belgrave, in Leicester, owned this, their one public house.

Robert Willance lived in the whitewashed house with large chimneystack on the right (Willance miraculously survived when in 1606 his horse bolted and fell 200 feet).

Robert Willance lived in the whitewashed house with large chimneystack on the right (Willance miraculously survived when in 1606 his horse bolted and fell 200 feet).

As its name implies, this small town is the westernmost in Kent, almost on the border with Surrey.

The town developed as a Victorian holiday resort, as many did on the North Wales Coast.

The wide, gently curving High Street is perhaps best admired from its lowest point and looking west.

We are looking in the same direction, only this time the view is taken from lower down the road, and shows the fine villas very much associated with the town.

Ilfracombe's growth was helped by the building of the Barnstaple turnpike and a new pier, but neglect of other amenities led to a cholera epidemic, which swept the town in 1849.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Cark was a busy mill town. The bridge here spans the River Eea, which powered the mill close by.

When it was completed in 1794, St Peter's Church was on the very edge of the built-up area of the town.

Dalgleish Way is part of the later 1950s and early 1960s village expansion.

Further west and more in Aldwick than Bognor is Arthur's Home, a convalescent home built in the 1890s, one of many. It survives as Ashley House and is now a Shaftesbury Home.

What is now a short arm and extensive marina moorings was once the main line of the Oxford Canal.

The High Street, across the Witham via Town Bridge rebuilt in 1913, presents a mainly late Georgian character with mostly three-storey frontages to the pavement edge, but many of these conceal earlier

The town was probably established as a port on the Wainfleet Haven by Bardney Abbey, but by the 15th century the haven silted up and the port declined.

Church Street, beyond Fishergate and the Town Hall, was a busy shopping area for the Fylde country all around.

The Butter Cross was built in 1689, after the fire of the previous year which destroyed much of the town.