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The Bell occupies a pleasant site, almost semi-rural in character, tucked away on Old Church Road, with the sandstone tower of St Peter's as a backdrop, and Victorian houses nearby.

St Lawrence's stands on Meriden Hill, aloof from most of the community it serves, but close to a small cluster of old houses and with views towards Coventry.

He was addicted to cock fighting, and had his own cockpit at the Church House.

On the extreme right is the house once occupied by Judge Parry, who wrote some charming children's books about Fleetwood.

The house remained a girls' boarding school until 1997.

Back into Whitehall, our tour continues north to Trafalgar Square, which was laid out in the 1820s; numerous houses in front of St Martin-in-the-Fields church were demolished.

The origins of this rambling building, which overlooks the main street, lie in a 15th-century farmhouse, and until the New Inn was built in the 1640s, it also served the village as its ale-house.

Civil wars, rebellion and border raids all brought destruction before the stability of the mid-18th century, and prosperity from trade with the Indies encouraged investment in grand houses and civic buildings

In the High Street, the house (centre left) will soon be the shop of Henry Stile's gent's outfitters; in the centre are the Tiger's Head, landlord Edward Smith, and the gabled Boot Stores of 1905.

Beyond the apron-clad figure of the proprietor of the Golden Tea House, with its tea caddy sign (left), is The Good Intent at number 33, a pub opened by a Godalming brewer in 1867 which closed fifty years

An open-top bus heading for Redhill via Epsom overtakes a lone cyclist outside the Green Man public house (right), with its swinging sign showing a figure dressed in forester's green.

Many of Odiham's houses are a mixture of Georgian and Tudor; some are timber-framed, which was common before local bricks came into general use in the 18th century.

The houses in the Square date from medieval to Victorian, with several striking large Georgian properties. The King's Head (left) is also Georgian.

Outside the Sir Charles Napier public house stands a telephone box (centre right). On the wall next door is a large Guinness advertisement.

The old house on the right has now been restored, but the seat on which the man rests is no more. Apart from these changes, this scene is little altered.

One of the few thatched buildings in the area, the Duke's Head is no longer a public house.

The stone houses on the left were built in the forecourt of the old gaol (out of view to the left); it had closed in 1868 after the assize courts finally went to Reading, and Abingdon's long battle

The street patterns of Evesham have probably changed little since the days of the battle, when many of the rebels fleeing from that desperate fight were slaughtered amongst its houses.

It has the usual mixture of banks and public houses on its corners. A National Savings Centre is tucked away on the left of our picture, and the Millstone Hotel is at the far side.

Hill Bottom (centre), south-west of Renscombe Farm is seen here in a view towards Chapman's Pool and Houn's-tout Cliff The slopes of the Plain and St Alban's Head (left) rise to the south.

Little of the original priory has survived, but parts of it may have been used when Priory House in the foreground was built in around 1700. A large rambling building, it was demolished in 1952.

The buildings now house the town's museum. The museum was opened by Lord Raglan in July 1959, and its first curator was Duggan Thacker. It was extended with the refurbishment.

The building was used briefly in the 1980s to house the Halton Chemical Industry Museum.

Beyond the houses on the right- hand side of the road is the village recreation ground complete with its new Millennium village hall, a welcome amenity for the residents of Scaynes Hill.