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Chenies, a mile downstream from Latimer, takes its name from the Cheyne family who held the manor from the 13th century until the 16th century when it passed, through the marriage in 1526

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

This sizeable village nestles in a valley close to two notable landmarks: Lewesdon Hill (894 feet) and Pilsdon Pen, at 909 feet, the highest hill in Dorset.

'This England', as Mark Twain described 'that beauty which is England alone - it has no duplicate'.

The bank on the left has its long frontage to St Paul's Square, and is now a Ladbroke's betting shop.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

Burns died in 1796 at the age of 36 and is buried in St Michael's Church.

The heart of Georgian Weymouth overlooks the sands from the Gloucester Hotel (top left) and the Royal Hotel (centre left), in a broad sweep around to the Victorian spire of St John's Church and Brunswick

The St Dunstan's factory wing (right) was built in 1919.

The school in the background was founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul's, to provide education for 144 boys.

Prominent for many miles, St Mary's has dominated the hill since at least the 12th century.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778.

This is the splendid 12th-century church of St Michael and All Angels with its Norman arches.

St Mary's was built between 1877 and 1878 by John Cundall in brick with a prominent steeple.

The church of St John the Baptist is mainly 13th-century and has a wood-shingled broach spire.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

Rebuilt in 1867 by John Loughborough Pearson, the architect of the eastern extension of Wakefield Cathedral, the parish church of St Helen looks down on the town's market place.

The church of St Nicholas which dominates this view was redesigned in 1863 by Anthony Salvin.

Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

After his trial for treason at Northampton in 1164, Thomas à Beckett escaped from St Andrew's Priory.

Firmly back in Bedfordshire and heading south, our route passes through Blunham, a most attractive village, where the poet John Donne was rector from 1622 until his death in 1632, although he was also

Buckinghamshire's County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s.

However, it would be over 50 years before the General Enclosure Act was passed in 1858, which would enable further parts of the Heath to be enclosed, and the skeletal structure of the town to