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Oakfield Corner, built around 1910 and part of the earlier phase of Amersham on the Hill's expansion, chose the vernacular and timber-framed tradition for its shops with flats above.

Once controlled by a simple set of three traffic lights, the junction of George Street, Wellington Street (left) and Manchester Street (right) now requires a multi-function system complete with laning,

The Town Hall is to the west of the cathedral. It was designed in the Gothic style of the late 13th century by William Henry Lynn of Belfast, and completed in 1869; the tower is 160ft high.

Speculators built many homes, and this substantial little town is now a favourite place for retirement.

This was the site of the Old Town Hall. Thomas Harris paid for the enclosure and planting of the Central Gardens in 1896.

Nearby is the site of the forthcoming 1930s Woolworth store and 1980s redevelopment. Down past the latticed railway bridge is the new road over the bridge to Middleton.

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

Navenby is a small market town with wide, airy views over the Trent valley to the west. There is a fine church, noted for its Decorated Gothic chancel, and a broad main street, once the market place.

As time went on, Peter, the founder of the town, assumed the additional name of Fleetwood. By this time the Mount had been grassed over and flower beds planted.

Banstead station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs station, opened in 1865.

The old terrace of shops to the left include J N Read & Son, butchers.

The competition to design a new town hall was won by J A Hansom and E Welsh; their outline plans were preferred to those submitted by leading architects such as Charles Barry and Thomas Rickman.

This patterned red-brick Victorian building was occupied from 1916 onwards by the Benedictine nuns of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of Montmartre, OSB and used as a novitiate house, before

While the tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and

Brighton Pavilion is a fitting reminder of this town's emergence as a seaside resort.

This attractive town was the site of a timber castle belonging to the Montfitchet family, from whom it takes its name.

Now the suburbs of Poole have crept nearer, and the old village has become a small dormitory town. Corfe Mullen's mill received a mention in the Domesday Book.

Situated to the south-east of the town on the left bank of the river Teith at its junction with the Ardoch, Doune Castle derives its name from the Gaelic word 'dun', meaning a fortified place.

Once upon a time there was a house on the site of the Town Hall called Rosehill.

About 1785, Sir Richard Hotham, a wealthy Southwark hatter, who determined upon acquiring the glory of a seaside Romulus, set to work to erect a town of first-class villas in this pleasant spot, with a

For its size, St Mary's had more chantries than most parish churches, an indication of just how prosperous the town was between the 13th and 16th centuries.

Situated to the south-east of the town on the left bank of the river Teith at its junction with the Ardoch, Doune Castle derives its name from the Gaelic word 'dun', meaning a fortified place.

Tor Bay is bounded on the north by Hope's Nose (round the corner to the left) and Berry Head, seen here across the bay.

The small village of Lilbourne had a market charter granted in 1219 by Henry III, but it clearly never developed into a fully fledged town.