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Another open area of Newton Abbot is Decoy, to the south of town. With playing fields, a recreation area, a lake and woodlands, it is very popular with the local townspeople.

Like Teignmouth and Lyme Regis, Dawlish was much-loved by fashionable society during the 19th century.

We are further down into the town and looking back up towards the clock tower, which is just visible.

This view was taken looking along the backwater from Abingdon Bridge with the gardens of houses in East St Helen Street on the right and a then well-treed Nag's Head Island on the left.

Whalley is a very ancient town and steeped in history.

Whalley is a very ancient town and steeped in history.

Today the name Long Barn is associated with a modern housing development, but in 1965 the area was still open countryside and farmland.

The town is known as Kington simply because it was the King's town at one time and it is generally assumed that the king in question was Edward the Confessor.

Regrettably, local stone was not used but luckily the house is on the outskirts of town and not easily visible. It was modernised in the 1960s.

Stone proclaims itself to be a 'Canal Town' and reaching it from this river bridge involves crossing the Trent & Mersey Canal.

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.

Dedicated to two 6th-century saints, St Mael and St Sulien, this church looks down on the town and has done since medieval times.

Tile-hung walls are a feature of this town, and several examples can be seen here.

The church was founded in 1107 and was the cause of bitter rivalry between town and prior, culminating in each faction building its own 15th-century bell towers.

A celebrated art critic has declared that Edinburgh, Venice and Torquay are the three most beautiful towns in Europe.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

This view looks across the railway and the western Cleddau river onto Quay Street and the town and castle beyond.

Pickering Castle lies to the north of the town and was founded by William the Conqueror, though the earliest ruins date from the 12th century.

Old Sarum, an Iron Age fort, a junction for four Roman roads, a cathedral town and the original Salisbury, reveals its past with this display of excavated artefacts.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

This view, taken from the station, shows the town and Cadair Idris, the River Wnion, the famous 17th-century bridge and tollhouse, and the tower of St Mary's church.

Two hundred and thirty-five years before this photograph was taken, Samuel Pepys visited the town and ate 'very good troutes, eels and crayfish' at the Bear Hotel.

Stourport's close proximity to the industrial cities of the Midlands made the town and the rivers a favourite day out around this period.

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.